Jeremy Paul is getting to know his way around various tours affiliated with the grandaddy of them all, the PGA Tour.
The former University of Colorado golfer, who’s been a pro less than a year, played a dozen events on the Web.com Tour last year as a rookie. Then earlier this year, the German earned conditional status on PGA Tour Latinoamerica, where he finished ninth in the season opener last month. And on Friday, Paul landed conditional status on PGA Tour Canada.
Paul (pictured) finished tied for 16th place out of 132 players on Friday in the third of five PGA Tour Canada Q-school tournaments, this one in Litchfield Park, Ariz. He posted rounds of 73-68-75-70 for a 2-under-par 286 total. He birdied two of his last four holes in the final round.
The top 16 finishers — no ties — earned at least some exempt status for 2018, while those in the 17th through 40th positions received conditional status. So only one of the seven golfers knotted at 286 — Jere Pelletier — gained an exempt spot for at least the first four events of the season.
Paul, who owns the best career scoring average in CU golf history (71.7), posted his first professional victory in January, winning the Pro Golf Tour’s Red Sea Ain Sokhna Classic in Egypt. The Pro Golf Tour is a satellite circuit that feeds the European Challenge Tour.
In previous PGA Tour Canada Q-school events this year, Coloradan Michael Schoolcraft earned some exempt status, while brother Beau Schoolcraft and former Colorado State University golfer Blake Cannon landed conditional spots.
The 2018 PGA Tour Canada season will begin on May 31.
Here are the scores for all the local players who competed this week in Litchfield Park:
16. Former CU golfer Jeremy Paul 73-68-75-70–286
FAILED TO QUALIFY
75. Former CU golfer Bob Kalinowski 74-77-72-73–296
117. Former CU golfer Drew Trujillo 82-78-76-74–310
