Despite a bogey on his final hole, Laird shared seventh place Sunday in the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Miss.

The Scotsman (left) recorded rounds of 72-67-66-70 for a 13-under-par 275 total, which left him eight strokes behind winner Cameron Champ.

The last better showing by Laird came in the 2017 Quicken Loans National, where he placed third. He also tied for seventh last April in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, a team event where his partner was Russell Knox.

Laird now has 36 top-10 finishes in his PGA Tour career, including three wins.

Also in the Sanderson Farms Championship, part-time Denver resident Kevin Stadler made his first PGA Tour start since 2015, but missed the cut by two after rounds of 70-75. Stadler will tee it up again at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, which starts Thursday in Las Vegas. For more on Stadler’s return, CLICK HERE.
 

Jobe Back in Champions Season Finale: Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Brandt Jobe, like Stadler a product of Kent Denver High School, will advance to the final event of the PGA Tour Champions Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs.

Jobe finished 37th on Sunday in the Invesco QQQ Championship in Thousand Oaks, Calif., but easily made the field for the 36-player Charles Schwab Cup Championship, which will be held Nov. 8-11 in Phoenix.

Jobe will go into the season finale 19th on the Schwab Points list, having dropped two spots from last week.

It will be the third straight year Jobe has qualified for the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

One player with Colorado ties who didn’t advance on Sunday — and therefore saw his season end — was former Castle Pines resident Esteban Toledo, who finished 51st in Charles Schwab Cup points.
 

In the first event of the four-tournament Web.com Tour Finals, Knous shared the lead through three rounds at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship in Columbus, Ohio. And he was still in very good shape as he was even par for his Sunday round through 10 holes.

But that’s where he started a stretch of seven holes that he wishes he had back. Knous bogeyed the 11th, 12th and 15th holes and double bogeyed No. 7, going 5 over for that run.

He birdied the 18th hole to shoot a 4-over-par 75 and tie for 10th place, marking his second straight top-10 on the Web.com Tour.

Knous’ 8-under-par 276 total left him four strokes behind champion Robert Streb, with whom the Coloradan was tied after three rounds.

Should Knous (pictured) finish in the top 25 in cumulative money earnings for the four Web.com Tour Final events, he’ll earn a PGA Tour card for the coming season.

Another player who grew up in Colorado, Wyndham Clark, gained PGA Tour playing privileges by virtue of finishing in the top 25 on the regular-season Web.com Tour money list. Clark defeated Knous in a playoff to win the 2010 CGA Amateur at Boulder Country Club.

Players eligible to compete in the Web Finals include the top 75 money winners for the 2018 Web regular season and golfers who finished in the 126-200 range on the PGA Tour’s FedExCup points list at the end of the regular season.

Upcoming in the Web Finals are the DAP Championship in Beachwood, Ohio (Aug. 30-Sept. 2), the Albertsons Boise Open in Idaho (Sept. 13-16) and the Web.com Tour Championship in Atlantic Beach, Fla. (Sept. 20-23).

End of the Line for Laird, Saunders: The two players with strong Colorado connections who made the PGA Tour’s FedExCup Playoffs saw their postseason end on Sunday after one tournament.

Former Colorado State University golfer Martin Laird and former Fort Collins resident Sam Saunders both finished in the top 125 on FedExCup regular-season points list to advance to the Northern Trust this week in Paramus, N.J.

But the top 100 was needed to move on to next week’s Dell Technologies Championship, and neither Laird nor Saunders made the grade. That means the season is over for both.

With a 60th-place finish on Sunday, Saunders remained 120th in FedExCup points. Laird placed 73rd in New Jersey and ended up 115th on the points list.
 

It isn’t even an every-year occurrence.

It’s fair to say it happens rarely, especially since Q-school is no longer is a direct route to the PGA Tour.

Prior to this year, the last Colorado golfer to land a PGA Tour card for the first time was Denver native Mark Hubbard, who made the grade in 2014 and played on the world’s top tour for three seasons before losing his card.

But on Sunday, another Denver native formally joined the elite group. Wyndham Clark, who grew up south of the Denver metro area and graduated from Valor Christian High School, landed his PGA Tour card by finishing in the top 25 on the Web.com Tour’s regular-season money list in 2018.

Clark — winner of the 2010 CGA Amateur and the 2017 Pac-12 individual title, both at Boulder Country Club — certainly didn’t finish the Web.com Tour season the way he wanted as he missed cuts in four of his last five events, including this weekend’s WinCo Foods Portland Open.

But the 24-year-old did the necessary work in the first six months (and one day) of the year. In his first 15 Web events of the season, Clark recorded four top-five finishes with a second, a third, a fourth and a fifth. With $187,817 for the year, he finished 16th on the Web’s regular-season money list.

“It was a tough week but an awesome year and I’m so happy to be getting my card,” Clark said to ColoradoGolf.org via text this weekend.

Clark, the 2017 Pac-12 Player of the Year at Oregon and the 2014 Big 12 Player of the Year at Oklahoma State before transferring, turned pro just 14 months ago. In addition to his Web.com Tour starts, he’s played in eight PGA Tour events in 2017 and early ’18, making two cuts and finishing as high as 17th.

“I knew and believed I could do it (earn a PGA Tour card) in one short season,” Clark texted. “I just had to stay focused and play my game and let the results take care of themselves — and they did. It’s an awesome feeling and I can’t wait to be on the Tour.”

But Clark’s Web.com Tour season isn’t quite over — just his regular season. The Web.com Tour Finals begin on Thursday in Columbus, Ohio, and Clark is in the field there. He’ll try to improve his 2018-19 PGA Tour status with his performances throughout the four-event Finals, which culminate with the Web.com Tour Championship Sept. 20-23 in Atlantic Beach, Fla.

The 2018-19 wraparound season for the PGA Tour begins with the Safeway Open in Napa, Calif., Oct. 4-7.

Joining Clark in the Web.com Tour Finals — thanks to finishing in the top 75 on the regular-season money list — will be Jim Knous of Littleton and Hubbard. That will also guarantee Knous and Hubbard full Web.com Tour status in 2019 if they don’t get PGA Tour cards through the Web Finals.

Knous, a former Colorado School of Mines golfer, finished a Web-career-best-tying fourth on Sunday at the Portland Open and 52nd on the Web regular-season money list. He shot rounds of 70-67-68-67 for a 12-under-par 272 total, which left him six strokes behind winner Sunjae Im.

It was Knous second top-four finish on the Web.com Tour since July 1.

Meanwhile, Hubbard placed 40th on Sunday in Portland, leaving him in the 72nd position on the final Web regular-season money list. Hubbard went 66-70-70-73 for a 5-under 279 total.

A local player who like Clark missed the cut at the Portland Open was at the center of an unfortunate incident during Friday’s round. ESPN reported that part-time Denver resident Kevin Stadler accidentally injured a fan when he slammed an iron on the ground and against his foot and the head came loose and hit a spectator in the head. ESPN indicated that Web.com Tour rules official Orlando Pope said the fan required six stitches, being treated on site then at a hospital before being released.

“It was a very freakish accident,” Pope told ESPN. “Kevin is devastated. He had trouble trying to finish the round. He was quite worried and felt so bad.”

Saunders, Laird Advance to PGA Tour Playoffs: A year after narrowly missing qualifying for the PGA Tour’s FedExCup Playoffs, former Fort Collins resident Sam Saunders made the “postseason” for the first time on Sunday.

Saunders, a grandson of Arnold Palmer. finished 45th at the regular-season-ending Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., which left him at 120th in the FedExCup standings. The top 125 are fully exempt on the PGA Tour next season and advance to the playoffs.

Also tying for 45th place at the Wyndham and making the playoffs was former Colorado State University golfer Martin Laird. He’s 113th in the FedExCup standings.

The opening playoff event is The Northern Trust in Paramus, N.J., starting Thursday. The top 100 in the FedExCup standings after that will advance to the Dell Technologies Championship.

Notable on Tour This Week: Three players with strong Colorado connections finished in the top 11 Sunday in the PGA Tour Canada’s Players Cup in Winnipeg. James Love of Denver tied for fifth, while fellow Coloradan Michael Schoolcraft and former Louisville resident George Cunningham shared 11th place. For Love, it was his best PGA Tour Canada showing in more than two years. He went 66-67-70-69 for a 16-under-par 272 total, which left him six behind champion Tyler McCumber. Schoolcraft, with his second top-11 showing of the month, and Cunningham checked in at 274. … Former University of Colorado golfer Steve Jones, who has been sidelined by knee surgery, according to the USGA, played in his first PGA Tour Champions event since mid-April, finishing 70th at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open (68-80-76). Jones is best known for winning the 1996 U.S. Open.
 

It’s gut-check time for players on the bubble on many of the world’s top golf tours.

That comes with the territory this time of year as tours wind down their season schedules. And plenty of those doing some figurative nail-biting are golfers with strong Colorado connections.

Some of those players are looking to get “promotions” to higher-profile tours next season. Others are mainly aiming to keep similar tour cards for next year, given their current situation.

We’ll take a look at some of the local players on the bubble, but first we’ll mention one who is virtually guaranteed to earn a promotion. That would be Wyndham Clark, a Denver native and former Highlands Ranch resident, who, barring some wild happenings in the final two tournaments of the Web.com Tour season should secure a PGA Tour card for the 2018-19 wraparound season.

“It’s pretty awesome, a dream come true,” the current Las Vegas resident recently told the Portland Tribune. “I’ve always wanted to be on the PGA Tour. It is amazing it has only taken one year (playing as a pro) to do it. It’s surreal.” 

Clark (pictured), the 2010 CGA Amateur champion, hasn’t played his best golf in the last month, but his strong play in the first six months of the season has put him in 13th place on the 2018 regular-season Web money list with $187,817. The top 25 at the end of the regular season — on Aug. 19 — will earn PGA Tour cards.

Clark, the 2017 Pac-12 Conference individual champion, has posted four top-five finishes this Web.com season, with a best showing of second place at the United Leasing & Finance Championship in April. He’s a Web.com rookie in 2018.

Clark is no stranger to PGA Tour events, having competed in eight of them since June 2017, many via sponsor exemptions. His best PGA Tour finish was 17th place at the Sanderson Farms Championship in October 2017. All told, he’s made two cuts in those eight PGA Tour starts.

Speaking of the PGA Tour, the top 125 finishers in the FedExCup point standings after the PGA Championship (Thursday through Sunday) and the Wyndham Championship (Aug. 16-19) will keep their fully-exempt status for next season. And two “local” players who are not in the PGA Championship field are currently sitting in the 110-125 range.

Former Colorado State University golfer Martin Laird is 113th in the standings and former Fort Collins resident Sam Saunders is 120th. Should either fall out of the top 125 — and if they didn’t place highly enough in the Web.com Tour Finals — they would still have conditional status on the PGA Tour, but that would mean far fewer starts next season.

Back on the Web.com Tour, the top 75 threshold on the regular-season money list is an important one as those who make that grade guarantee themselves at least full Web exemptions in 2019, along with spots in the Web.com Finals, where another 25 PGA Tour cards will be up for grabs.

With two Web events left, former Denver resident Mark Hubbard is 63rd on the season-long money list, while Englewood resident Jim Knous is 69th.

On the Symetra Tour, the top 10 players on the money list after the final eight events of the 2018 season will land LPGA Tour cards for 2019.

Three golfers with strong local ties have outside shots at making the top 10.

Former University of Colorado golfer Jenny Coleman (left), who held an LPGA card in 2017, sits in 23rd place on the Symetra money list. Becca Huffer of Denver is 28th, and former CU golfer Esther Lee is 33rd.

Meanwhile, the top five finishers on the PGA Tour Canada money list will earn Web.com Tour cards for 2019. And with four tournaments left in the season, former Louisville resident George Cunningham sits in third place with $66,167.

Cunningham — grandson of the late Chuck Melvin, who played in six Colorado Cup matches — won the GolfBC Championship in June and finished 29th in the PGA Tour’s RBC Canadian Open last month.

For weekly updates on all tour players with strong Colorado ties, CLICK HERE.

Clark, a former University of Oregon golfer who won a Pac-12 Conference individual title a year ago in Boulder, ended up one stroke behind champion Jose de Jesus Rodriguez of Mexico in Indiana. Rodriguez bogeyed the final hole after being in a greenside bunker, but made a 1-foot putt to secure the victory.

Facing one of the toughest tests of the season on the Web.com Tour, Clark (pictured) went 70-69-77-67 for a 5-under-par 283 total. Most notably, he played a spectacular final nine holes on Sunday, shooting a 6-under-par 30. That included an eagle on the par-4 14th hole to go along with four birdies.

The 24-year-old Denver native has now recorded two top-four finishes this year on the Web.com Tour, with the other being a share of fourth place at The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic in January.

With a $64,800 payday on Sunday, Clark jumped up to No. 15 on the 2018 Web.com Tour money list, with $95,691.

Clark has also played in eight PGA Tour events over the last year, finishing as high as 17th.

Another Top-10 on PGA Tour for Laird: Former Colorado State University golfer Martin Laird notched his fourth top-11 finish of the 2017-18 PGA Tour season on Sunday by pairing with Russell Knox to place a season-best seventh in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans team event.

Laird and Knox went 64-73-63-71 for a 17-under-par 271 in the Zurich event, which utilizes both four-ball and foursomes stroke-play formats. They finished five behind winners Billy Horschel and Scott Piercy.

Prior to Sunday, Laird’s best finishes of the PGA Tour season had been back-to-back ninth-place showings in February.

Former Buff Heisele Fourth on European Challenge Tour: On the European Challenge Tour, former University of Colorado golfer Sebastian Heisele tied for fourth place Sunday in the Turkish Airlines Challenge in Belek, Antalya, Turkey.

Heisele, who plays primarily on the European Tour, carded scores of 68-68-70-69 for a 13-under-par 275 total. The German finished five strokes behind winner Joachim Hansen of Denmark and earned $8,400 euros.
 

Jobe and McCarron (pictured) ended up ninth out of 36 teams on Sunday in the Bass Pro Shops Legends of Golf in Ridgedale, Mo. They recorded a 19-under-par 199 total, finishing five strokes behind winners Kirk Triplett and Paul Broadhurst, who beat Bernhard Langer and Tom Lehman in a playoff.

The last three days of the event were played on a par-3 layout at Top of the Rock.

Laird 11th at Valero Texas Open; ex-Buff Creel Makes Cut in First PGA Tour Event: Former Colorado State University golfer Martin Laird recorded his third top-11 finish of the PGA Tour season by placing 11th on Sunday in the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio.

Laird, the 2013 winner of the Texas Open, went 73-65-69-72 for a 9-under-par 279, leaving him eight strokes behind winner Andrew Landry.

Meanwhile, Cheyenne native Josh Creel, who started his college career at the University of Colorado before finishing up at Central Oklahoma, Monday qualified to earn a spot in the Texas Open, the first PGA Tour event of his career.

Creel not only made the field, but earned a check by making the cut. He finished 64th after rounds of 69-72-73-76 for a 290 total.

Clark, Hubbard, Knous in Top 25 at Web.com’s North Mississippi Classic: Three players who grew up in Colorado — Wyndham Clark, Mark Hubbard and Jim Knous — notched top-25 finishes Sunday in the rain-shortened North Mississippi Classic on the Web.com Tour.

Clark (71-70-71) was 17th at 4-under-par 212 while Hubbard (69-72-72) and Knous (72-66-75) shared 22nd place at 213.
 

When it comes to sheer candidness, there are few players who have won on the PGA Tour who are more forthright than Jonathan Kaye.

The former University of Colorado golfer seldom hesitates to voice his true opinions — good, bad or otherwise.

Last year, in the week in which he won his second CoBank Colorado Open title, Kaye was talking about the subject of money and purses on the PGA Tour. And he said something that was both illuminating and candid.

“I passed Jack Nicklaus (in career PGA Tour earnings) my third year on the Tour,” Kaye said. “There’s no way I should ever pass Jack Nicklaus.”

With the Masters on tap this week, we decided to take a look at where the most prominent players in the history of Colorado golf stack up in a statistic seldom mentioned anymore: career money leaders on the major professional tours.

It’s not surprising that the PGA Tour competitors in the Tiger Woods era have received a disproportionate boost in money earnings compared to their earlier counterparts. What was eye-opening was just how much an effect that had.

For instance, regarding Nicklaus and Kaye, the Golden Bear may be the greatest player of all time, with 18 majors among his 73 PGA Tour victories. Kaye, meanwhile, has won twice in his PGA Tour career.

Yet look at the PGA Tour career money list and Nicklaus is No. 271 ($5.734 million) and Kaye is No. 164 ($10.585 million, just ahead of Bernhard Langer). Many people debate whether Nicklaus or Woods is the greatest golfer ever, but on the PGA Tour’s career money list the Bear is a pauper compared to Tiger, who has won more than 19 times as much money ($111.183 million).

Hale Irwin (pictured above), a Boulder High School and University of Colorado graduate, is unquestionably the most successful golfer the Centennial State has produced from an early age, with three U.S. Open victories among his 20 PGA Tour wins. But you’d never know it by looking at all-time PGA Tour money won. The World Golf Hall of Famer checks in at No. 263 ($5.966 million).

Another former CU golfer who won the U.S. Open is just a little ahead of Irwin. Steve Jones, whose eight-win career included the 1996 U.S. Open title, is No. 249 ($6.519 million).

As for other prominent players who grew up in Colorado and have had extensive PGA Tour careers, Brandt Jobe is 195th in career money at $9 million and one-time winner Kevin Stadler is 180th at $9.698 million. Both played their high school golf at Kent Denver.

Others with strong Colorado connections in the top 200 are Evergreen resident Craig Stadler (Kevin’s dad), winner of 13 PGA Tour events including a Masters (174th at $10.022 million); former Colorado State University golfer Martin Laird, a three-time PGA Tour champion (91st at $16.155 million); and Colorado resident David Duval, winner of 13 PGA Tour events including a British Open (78th at $18.984 million).

And, the top PGA Tour career money winner with major Colorado ties is Aspen resident Justin Leonard, who owns a dozen Tour wins including a British Open (22nd at $33.885 million).

Other PGA Tour winners with strong Colorado ties made less than $1 million in their PGA Tour careers, including Paul Runyan (28 wins), Ed Dudley (15 wins), Dow Finsterwald (11 wins), Dale Douglass (3 wins), Bob Byman (1 win) and Fred Wampler (1 win).

Dave Hill made $1.13 million in a career that included 13 victories, and Mark Wiebe earned $4.314 million in a career that featured two wins.

On the LPGA Tour, part-time Colorado resident and World Golf Hall of Famer Hollis Stacy (left, with Annika Sorenstam) earned $2.58 million in winning 18 times on the LPGA circuit, including four majors. Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Jill McGill earned $2.342 million, though she didn’t win a tournament on that circuit. World Golf Hall of Famer Babe Zaharias, a Denver-area resident in the 1940s, won 41 times on the LPGA Tour but earned just $66,237. Sharon Miller, like Zaharias and McGill a member of the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame, won $164,274 on the LPGA circuit, on which she posted two victories. Lauren Howe racked up $236,084 in career LPGA money after winning once. Sorenstam, who won the 1995 U.S. Women’s Open at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, leads the LPGA career money list, with $22.573 million.

As for PGA Tour Champions, Irwin was a check-cashing machine for many years. The former Buff, winner of a career-record 45 PGA Tour Champions events, has won a remarkable $27.089 million on the 50-and-over circuit, putting him No. 1 all-time.

Also ranking among the top 100 in what was once know as the Senior Tour are Craig Stadler (35th at $8.979 million with nine wins); Douglass (56th at $7.019 million with 11 wins), Wiebe (73rd at $5.69 million with five wins) and R.W. Eaks (91st at $4.693 million with four wins). 

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.
 

Laird completed his 10th Phoenix Open on Sunday, and for the fourth time in his last eight trips to the event, he posted a top-10 finish.

This time, the former Ram placed ninth after an early-round run of four straight birdies (holes 3-6) vaulted him into second place.

Laird (pictured) went 68-67-68-68 for a 13-under-par 271 total, which left him five strokes behind champion Gary Woodland, a Kansas product. Laird finished with five birdies and two bogeys in the final round.

Sunday marked the 33rd PGA Tour top-10 for Laird, who has won three times on golf’s top circuit.

Laird’s finishes at the Phoenix Open in the last eight years include a third place in 2011, a fifth place in 2015, a seventh place last year and Sunday’s ninth-place showing.

For Phoenix Open scores, CLICK HERE.

Arvidsson Finishes Fifth in PGA Tour China Q-school: Former University of Denver golfer Oskar Arvidsson earned fully-exempt status on PGA Tour China on Sunday by finishing fifth out of 120 players in a four-round international Q-school tournament in Haikou in southern China.

Arvidsson, who qualified for the 2016 British Open, led after the first three rounds of the Q-school event. He posted scores of 67-67-74-74 for a 6-under-par 282 total and finished seven strokes behind medalist Jeffrey Kang, a former University of Southern California golfer.

Former CGA Les Fowler Player of the Year Steven Kupcho failed to earn PGA Tour China status as he placed 51st at 12-over-par 300 (78-74-72-76). Kupcho missed conditional status by four strokes.

The top 15 finishers at Q-school will be fully exempt for the 14-tournament PGA Tour China season, with the next 25 conditionally exempt. This was the first of two international qualifiers for PGA Tour China.

For Q-school scores, CLICK HERE.
 

The 29-year-old German (pictured) posted rounds of 66-68-68-69 for a 13-under-par 271 total. That left him two strokes behind champion Romain Wattel of France.

Heisele’s previous best finish on the European Tour was a fourth in the Open de Portugal in May. He was also seventh in last week’s Bridgestone Challenge on the European Challenge Tour.

With Sunday’s showing, Heisele jumped to 131st on the European Tour money list with 195,732 euros. He earned 73,500 euros on Sunday alone.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in major professional tour golf for players with strong Colorado connections:

— End of the Road for Laird: Former Colorado State University golfer Martin Laird finished out his 2016-17 PGA Tour season in fine fashion on Sunday, but he had been hoping to play one more week.

Laird needed a high finish at the BMW Championship in Lake Forest, Ill., to advance to the Tour Championship, but it wasn’t to be. Laird placed 44th in the third event of the FedExCup Playoffs. He needed to be in the top 30 in FedExCup points after the BMW to make the Tour Championship, but ended up 56th in the points standings, thereby ending his season.

Laird shot rounds of 73-69-70-66 for a 6-under-par 278 total in the BMW Championship.

— Saunders in Good Position in Web.com Tour Finals: The Web.com Tour Finals, where 25 PGA Tour cards are at stake, reached their halfway point on Sunday, and former Fort Collins resident Sam Saunders remained in position to regain full PGA Tour playing privileges.

After an 11th-place finish in the first event of the Web Finals, Saunders ended up 40th on Sunday in the Albertsons Boise (Idaho) Open. That leaves him at 13th place in the Finals, where the top 25 after the Web.com Tour Championship will earn full PGA Tour status for next season.

Meanwhile, Denver native Mark Hubbard, who like Saunders competed on the PGA Tour most of this season, finished 46th on Sunday in Boise, which leaves him 49th in the Finals points standings.

— Toledo Fifth in Champions Tourney: Former Castle Pines resident Esteban Toledo recorded his best PGA Tour Champions finish in 19 months by placing fifth on Sunday in the Pacific Links Bear Mountain Championship in Victoria, B.C. in Canada.

Toledo went 66-69-66 for an 11-under-par 202 total, which left him three strokes behind champion Jerry Kelly. Toledo made seven birdies in the final round.

It was just Toledo’s second top-10 showing of the year — and first since placing sixth in the Alliance Championship in February. The last time he had a higher finish on the Champions circuit was February of 2016, when he won the Alliance tournament.