Seventy-four players were in the field for the Dominion Energy Charity Classic, which concluded on Sunday in Richmond, Va. The top 54 in the Schwab Cup standings advance to the Invesco QQQ Championship, which starts Friday in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Then the top 36 after that event will compete in the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Phoenix Nov. 8-11.

After a 23rd-place finish on Sunday, Jobe (pictured) is 17th on the points list. Toledo dropped two spots, to No. 50, but kept his season alive. Hallberg fell one spot, to No. 63, and was eliminated from the playoffs.

With a second-place finish on Sunday — behind champion Woody Austin — Bernhard Langer remains the leader in the Charles Schwab Cup points standings.

The winner of the Charles Schwab Cup will receive a $1 million bonus.

The Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs, which includes the last three events of the PGA Tour Champions season, begins next week at the Dominion Energy Charity Classic in Richmond, Va.

Only 72 players — based primarily on the 2018 Champions season-long money list — advance to the playoffs. And that total includes three golfers with strong Colorado connections — Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Brandt Jobe (pictured), former Castle Pines resident Esteban Toledo and Boulder County resident Gary Hallberg.

After the regular-season-ending SAS Championship, which concluded on Sunday in Cary, N.C., Jobe stands 16th on the Charles Schwab Cup points list, while Toledo is 48th and Hallberg 62nd.

Two of Hallberg’s four top-30 finishes this season on PGA Tour Champions came in his final two starts of the regular season as he placed eighth at the PURE Insurance Championship and 26th in the SAS Championship. The strong performances this fall landed him a spot in the playoffs.

With bonuses going to the top five finishers in the Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs, the top 54 players will advance to the Invesco QQQ Championship Oct. 26-28 and 36 will make it to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship Nov. 8-11.

The winner of the Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs will receive a $1 million bonus.
 

Hallberg (left) placed eighth in the PURE Insurance Championship, which concluded at Pebble Beach Golf Links on the Monterey Peninsula in California.

Hallberg carded rounds of 68-67-74 for a 6-under-par 209, which left him four strokes behind champion Ken Tanigawa, who two years ago qualified in Colorado for the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship. He’s since turned pro and Sunday marked his first Champions victory.

Hallberg’s previous best showing on PGA Tour Champions in 2018 was a 15th place at the Chubb Classic in February.

Meanwhile, 73-year-old Colorado Sports Hall of Famer Hale Irwin finished 42nd in the PURE Insurance Championship, matching his best individual showing of the season. The World Golf Hall of Famer shot six strokes under his age — a 5-under-par 67 — in the first round at Pebble Beach, where he won a PGA Tour event in 1984.
 

The former Colorado State University golfer hadn’t posted back-to-back top-10s in more than three years, but managed that feat this month.

Two weeks after tying for ninth place at the Waste Management Phoenix Open in his hometown of Scottsdale, Laird matched that season-best showing on Sunday at the Genesis Open at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., earning $180,000.

Laird (pictured) played his final five holes in 3 under par on the tough Rivera course to shoot a 3-under-par 68 in the final round. His 7-under 277 total left him five strokes behind champion Bubba Watson.

Laird helped his cause considerably with an eagle on the par-5 17th hole on Sunday, when he drained a 15-foot putt.

The last time before this month that Laird recorded back-to-back top-10s on the PGA Tour was in February 2015, when he placed fifth in the Waste Management Phoenix Open and seventh in the Farmers Insurance Open.

Also in tour action on Sunday, Colorado resident Gary Hallberg finished 15th in the Chubb Classic in Naples, Fla., his PGA Tour Champions season opener.

In his best Champions performance since August, Hallberg went 65-70-72 for a 9-under-par 207 total in Naples. He finished 10 strokes behind winner Joe Durant and earned $25,632.
 

With just five players earning fully-exempt status on the 2018 tour through Q-school — and the sixth through 30th-place finishers receiving the right to compete in open qualifiers at all PGA Tour Champions co-sponsored events next year — neither Rohrbaugh nor Hallberg helped their cause this week at TPC Scottsdale.

Hallberg has played on PGA Tour Champions for the last decade, but had conditional status in 2017. Rohrbaugh last played on PGA Tour Champions in 2015 as a conditional member.

Rohrbaugh, the 2013 CoBank Colorado Senior Open champion and three-time Colorado PGA Professional Champion, closed with a 1-under-par 70 on Friday, giving him an even-par 284 total. He carded four birdies in the final round.

Hallberg, winner of three PGA Tour events and one Champions title, also checked in at 284 after shooting a final-round 71, likewise making four birdies.

Tom Byrum claimed medalist honors on Friday after beating Tommy Tolles with an eagle on the first hole of a playoff. Both finished at 19-under-par 265. Joining Byrum and Tolles in earning PGA Tour Champions cards were Kent Jones, Tim Petrovic and amateur Ken Tanigawa. Tanigawa, of Paradise Valley, Ariz., qualified in Colorado last year for the 2017 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship.

Here are the scores for the Coloradans who competed in Q-school this week:

Nov. 28-Dec. 1 in Scottsdale, Ariz.
(Top 5 Finishers Earned PGA Tour Champions Fully-Exempt Status)
57. Coloradan Doug Rohrbaugh 72-70-72-70–284
57. Coloradan Gary Hallberg 70-70-73-71–284

For complete results from Q-school, CLICK HERE.
 

The players tied in fourth/fifth/sixth place after Thursday’s third round of the 72-hole event stand at 14-under-par 199. But Coloradans Gary Hallberg and Doug Rohrbaugh are a long way back, with Hallberg checking in at even-par 213 and Rohrbaugh at 1-over-par 214.

Hallberg, winner of three events on the PGA Tour and one on the PGA Tour Champion circuit, fired a 2-over-par 73 on Thursday at TPC Scottsdale. He posted three birdies, three bogeys and a final-hole double bogey.

Hallberg has played in 185 senior tour events over the last decade. But this year, with limited status, he made just 12 starts, his fewest since joining the tour in 2008.

Meanwhile, Rohrbaugh carded a 72 on Thursday, finishing with three birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey. The Carbondale resident, winner of the 2013 CoBank Colorado Senior Open and three Colorado PGA Professional Championships, had conditional status on PGA Tour Champions in 2015.

In addition to the five fully-exempt spots that will be at stake on Friday, the sixth through 30th-place finishers earn the right to compete in open qualifiers at all PGA Tour Champions co-sponsored events in 2018. The players tied for 30th place on Thursday were at 6-under-par 207.

Leading the 78-man final stage after three rounds is Tim Petrovic, who sits at 18-under 195.

Here are the scores for the Coloradans competing in Q-school this week:

Nov. 28-Dec. 1 in Scottsdale, Ariz.
(Top 5 Finishers Earn PGA Tour Champions Fully-Exempt Status)
49. Coloradan Gary Hallberg 70-70-73–213
54. Coloradan Doug Rohrbaugh 72-70-72–214

For complete results from Q-school, CLICK HERE.
 

Gary Hallberg, who has had at least conditional status on the senior circuit since 2008, shot his second consecutive 1-under-par 70 on Wednesday and shares 35th place in the 78-man field at the halfway point at TPC Scottsdale.

Hallberg, a one-time winner on PGA Tour Champions, made five birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey in round 2, leaving him at 2-under 140. He trails co-leaders Tim Petrovic, Tommy Toles and Brian Henninger by 10 strokes with two days remaining. The players tied for the fourth and fifth spots stand at 132.

The sixth through 30th-place finishers after four rounds earn to right to compete in open qualifiers at all PGA Tour Champions co-sponsored events in 2018.

Doug Rohrbaugh of Carbondale, who was conditionally exempt on the senior circuit in 2015, eagled his first hole Wednesday and shot a 1-under 70, leaving him at 142 and in a tie for 50th place. The 2013 CoBank Colorado Senior Open champion carded an eagle, four birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey on Wednesday.

Here are the scores for the Coloradans competing in Q-school this week:

Nov. 28-Dec. 1 in Scottsdale, Ariz.
(Top 5 Finishers Earn PGA Tour Champions Fully-Exempt Status)
35. Coloradan Gary Hallberg 70-70–140
50. Coloradan Doug Rohrbaugh 72-70–142

For complete results from Q-school, CLICK HERE.

Gary Hallberg (left) played his last five holes in 2 under par to shoot a 1-under 70 at TPC Scottsdale, leaving him in a tie for 29th place after round 1. And Doug Rohrbaugh birdied his final two holes to post a 1-over 72, putting him in 45th place.

The top five finishers after 72 holes will earn full cards for next year on the senior circuit. The fifth-place player after day 1 was Tommy Tolles, who carded a 65. Brian Henninger fired a bogey-free 10-under-par 61 to lead the 78-man field.

Hallberg, winner of three PGA Tour events and one on PGA Tour Champions, has competed in 185 senior tour events over the last decade. But last year, with limited status, he made just 12 starts, his fewest since joining the tour in 2008.

Rohrbaugh, a three-time Colorado PGA Professional Champion and the 2013 CoBank Colorado Senior Open winner, has played in nine PGA Tour Champions events over the years, including six as a conditional member in 2015.

Here are the scores for the Coloradans competing in Q-school this week:

Nov. 28-Dec. 1 in Scottsdale, Ariz.
29. Coloradan Gary Hallberg 70
45. Coloradan Doug Rohrbaugh 72
 

Hallberg, 59, was part of the 17th induction class of the IGHOF, which was honored on Friday in Glenview, Ill. Other inductees were two-time Masters champion Horton Smith, a World Golf Hall of Famer, and Gary Groh.

Hallberg (pictured at left in an Illinois PGA photo) went to high school in Barrington, Ill., just northwest of Chicago, and won a state high school championship and the 1976 Western Junior. He went on to win the Illinois Amateur, Illinois Open and the North & South Amateur twice each. One of his Illinois Open victories came as an amateur.

At Wake Forest, Hallberg became the nation’s first four-time first-team All-American, and he claimed the 1979 individual NCAA title. He was also low amateur at the 1980 U.S. Open, the same year he was named the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.

Hallberg has won three times on the PGA Tour, once on the Web.com Tour and once on the PGA Tour Champions. When he completed the feat in 2010, he was just the fourth player to have won on all three of those tours. He also claimed the title in the 1988 Jerry Ford Invitational in the Vail Valley.
 

After two rounds of this year’s Senior PGA near Washington D.C., Jobe (pictured) shares 10th place. Rounds of 69-71 have left him at 4-under-par 140. When round 2 was suspended due to darkness on Friday night, Bernhard Langer led at 11 under par through 31 holes.

Jobe posted three top-five finishes in PGA Tour Champions majors in 2016.

(Updated May 27) Meanwhile, Mike Northern of Colorado Springs, who qualified for the Senior PGA by finishing fourth last year in the national Senior PGA Professional Championship, missed the 36-hole cut. Northern shot rounds of 73-78 for a 7-over-par 151 total. The top 72 players and ties advanced to the last two rounds, and Northern missed the mark by three shots.

Here are the scores for players with strong Colorado ties through 36 holes on Saturday morning:

Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Brandt Jobe 69-71–140
Former Colorado resident Esteban Toledo 70-73–143
Missed the 36-Hole Cut
Gary Hallberg of Longmont 71-79–150
Mike Northern of Colorado Springs 73-78–151
Former Cherry Creek HS golfer Mike Reid 74-77–151
Colorado Sports Hall of Famer Hale Irwin 76-82–158

For all the scores, CLICK HERE.