Two days after his brother Beau advanced to the First Stage of Web.com Tour Q-school, Michael Schoolcraft (pictured) of Denver finished a career-best second Sunday in the Cape Breton Open on PGA Tour Canada.
Schoolcraft posted rounds of 71-67-64-71 for a 15-under-par 273 total, which left him three strokes behind champion — and fellow American — Dan McCarthy.
The finish moved Schoolcraft up to eighth place on the PGA Tour Canada money list for 2016, with $39,531 (Canadian) in 10 events. The 24-year-old Denver native has three top-10 showings in Canada this year going into the final two events of the season.
Elsewhere on major tours:
— Tom Whitney of Fort Collins recorded his best finish ever on PGA Tour Latinoamerica — and his second top-10 finish of the year on that circuit by placing fourth Sunday in the Flor de Cana Open in Nicaragua.
The former Air Force Academy golfer went 66-68-63-65 for a 22-under-par 262 total. He ended up three strokes behind champion Augusto Nunez.
(Updated Sept. 11) Whitney notched a second straight top-10 on Sept. 11 at the San Luis Championship in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. There, his rounds of 70-70-70-73 for a 5-under-par 283 total left him two strokes behind champion Nathan Lashley, a former Colorado Open winner.
— Former Colorado State University golfer Martin Laird saw his run end in the PGA Tour FedExCup Playoffs as he missed the cut in the second of the four postseason events, the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton, Mass.
Laird, who shot rounds of 75-68 in the Deutsche Bank, fell from 63rd to 77th in the standings, and only the top 70 advance to the BMW Championship.
— Former University of Colorado golfer Jessica Wallace finished seventh in the Symetra Tour’s Sioux Falls (S.D.) Greatlife Challenge, earning $4,852.
Wallace carded scores of 68-70-69-71 for a 6-under-par 278 total, which left her eight strokes behind winner Nelly Korda.
