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.
With the top 125 finishers on the regular-season FedExCup points list making the playoffs, Laird ended up 89th and Hubbard 113th.
The first of the four playoff events will be contested Thursday through Sunday at The Barclays, which this year will be played at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y. The top 100 on the FedExCup points list after The Barclays will advance to the Deutsche Bank Championship, then 70 will make the BMW Championship and 30 the Tour Championship.
Each playoff event has an $8.5 million purse. There’s also a $35 million FedExCup bonus pool at stake.
Hubbard, who swept both of the CGA’s major junior championships in 2007, is hitting the home stretch of his second season on the PGA Tour. So far in the 2015-16 wraparound season, he’s made 21 cuts in 29 events and earned $642,942. He’s posted four top-20 finishes this season — with a best of 15th at the Puerto Rico Open — but has missed the cut in his last two starts.
Meanwhile, this will be Laird’s seventh FedExCup Playoffs, with 2010 his most successful year as he made it to the Tour Championship. Twice he’s recorded top-10 finishes at The Barclays, including losing in a playoff there six years ago. During the 2015-16 season, he’s had four top-11 finishes, including a tie for second at the Canadian Open last month, and has earned more than $1.1 million. Laird has three PGA Tour victories to his credit overall.