Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Brandt Jobe keeps knocking on the door during his rookie season on PGA Tour Champions. When he’ll get to walk through that door as a winner remains to be seen.
But on Sunday at the Boeing Classic in Snoqualmie, Wash., the winner of four CGA championship majors and a Colorado Open notched his fifth top-six finish of the year.
Jobe (pictured) shot 70-69-67 for a 10-under-par 206 total and tied for sixth at the Boeing Classic. He ended up three strokes out of the top spot.
So far in 2016, Jobe has finished third, fourth, fifth, and sixth twice on the Champions circuit.
“He’s building his way up to a win,” Golf Channel analyst Lanny Wadkins said of Jobe on Sunday.
Former CSU Golfer Laird Moves On in Playoffs: Despite struggling in Sunday’s final round of The Barclays after entering the day in fourth place, former Colorado State University golfer Martin Laird moved up 26 spots in the FedExCup standings going into the second PGA Tour Playoff event.
Laird shared the lead after the opening round of The Barclays at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y., but a 4-over-par 75 on Sunday dropped him to an 18th-place finish. Still, in going 66-72-69-75–282, he jumped from 89th to 63rd in the FedExCup standings. And with the top 100 advancing to the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton, Mass., beginning on Friday, he has the chance to make some noise in the postseason.
The top 70 in the standings after Deutsche Bank will move on to the BMW Championship, then the top 30 after that week will make the Tour Championship.
Meanwhile, Denver native Mark Hubbard, playing in his first FedExCup Playoffs, ended his season at The Barclays as he missed the cut following rounds of 74-75. Hubbard finished 115th in the FedExCup standings.
Elsewhere in major tour golf:
— Former Golden resident Andrew Svoboda failed to secure his 2016-17 PGA Tour card in the Web.com’s regular-season-ending WinCo Foods Portland Open. Svoboda entered the week 25th on the season-long money list, with the top 25 after the Portland Open securing PGA Tour spots for next season. But he shot 73-74 and missed the 36-hole cut. That means he’ll seek one of the 25 additional PGA Tour cards that will be awarded through the upcoming four-tournament Web.com Tour Finals.
