Jobe, who held the solo lead after day 1, shot rounds of 65-71-67 for a 13-under-par 201 total in The Ally Challenge in Grand Bland, Mich., where Paul Broadhurst won by two after a final-hole birdie.
After parring nine straight holes on the front nine on Sunday, Jobe (left) shot a bogey-free 5-under-par 31 on the back side.
It was Jobe’s ninth top-three finish in 59 starts on PGA Tour Champions. He’s won once, placed second twice and third six times.
“It’s frustrating because you only get so many chances, right?” Jobe said. “I had a good chance today, especially the way I played the back nine. Gosh, I mean, 18 I’ve got L-wedge in, I hit it 15 feet on 17. So every hole I had a great chance on the back nine; that’s all you can ask for. I just didn’t get it done, which is frustrating.”
With the showing, Jobe jumped up to 16th on the 2018 PGA Tour Champions money list. His long layoff was due primarily to problems with his left shoulder.
Knous’ Status Hangs in Balance Heading into Season Finale: Whether Jim Knous of Littleton joins Colorado native Wyndham Clark in earning a PGA Tour card through the 2018 Web.com Tour season will come down to the final event of the year.
Clark landed his PGA Tour playing privileges by finishing in the top 25 on the Web’s regular-season money list. Now Knous, a former Colorado School of Mines golfer, is trying to do likewise by placing in the top 25 on the cumulative money list for the four-event Web Finals.
Knous came into the week 16th on the Finals money list, but dropped a a spot by placing 24th Sunday in the penultimate event of the season, the Albertsons Boise Open in Idaho.
Knous carded scores of 69-67-69-69, but bogeyed his final two holes on Sunday for a 10-under-par 274 total, which left him nine strokes behind winner Sangmoon Bae.
So Knous’ goal will be to remain in the top 25 on the Web Finals money list at the conclusion of the Web.com Tour Championship, which is set for Thursday through next Sunday in Atlantic Beach, Fla.
Boulder Native Cunningham Earns Web.com Tour Card: Boulder native and former Louisville resident George Cunningham assured himself of his Web.com Tour card for 2019 on Sunday by placing in the top three for the second straight week on PGA Tour Canada.
Cunningham — grandson of the late Chuck Melvin, who played in six Colorado Cup matches — earned his promotion by finishing in the top five on the PGA Tour Canada’s season-long money list (second in his case, with $102,167).
Cunningham, winner of the GolfBC Championship in June, tied for second Sunday at the season-ending Freedom 55 Financial Championship in London, Ontario., a week after placing third in the Mackenzie Investments Open. This week, he shot scores of 67-66-66-64 for a 17-under-par 263 total, which left him two strokes behind champion Danny Walker.
“I’ve learned a ton this year,” Cunningham said. “I’m such a different player, I feel like, from when I was in college, and I thought I was playing really well in college. Every single thing I’ve learned this year is off the charts.”
]]>A week after finishing third in a Symetra Tour event in Sioux Falls, S.D., Huffer chalked up another top-10 on Sunday by tying for eighth in the Garden City Charity Classic in Garden City, Kan.
Huffer (pictured in a Symetra Tour photo) remained in 17th place on the season-long Symetra Tour money list, but is now about $10,300 out of 10th place. If she can climb into the top 10 and finish there after the final four tournaments of the year, she’ll be a member of the LPGA Tour in 2019.
Sunday’s performance marked Huffer’s fourth top-11 finish of the 2018 season.
In Garden City, she posted rounds of 68-66-71 for an 11-under-par 205 total, which left the 2013 winner of the CoBank Colorado Women’s Open five strokes behind champion Allyssa Ferrell.
Boulder Native Cunningham in Good Shape to Earn Web.com Tour Card: Boulder native and former Louisville resident George Cunningham finished third on Sunday at the Mackenzie Investments Open in Montreal, marking his fourth top-four showing of the season on PGA Tour Canada.
Cunningham — grandson of the late Chuck Melvin, who played in six Colorado Cup matches — posted an 18-under-par 270 total, finishing a stroke out of a playoff that was won by Blake Olson. Cunningham shot rounds of 68-67-71-64 and made nine birdies on Sunday.
Cunningham, winner of the GolfBC Championship in June, is in very good position to earn a Web.com Tour card for 2019. The top five finishers on the PGA Tour Canada money list for the year after next week’s season finale will graduate to the Web circuit, and Cunningham is currently No. 3 on that list.
Laird (left), who has three PGA Tour victories to his credit, ended up a stroke behind champion Jhonattan Vegas, who birdied his last three holes en route to a 64 on Sunday.
Laird shared second place with Dustin Johnson and Tour rookie Jon Rahm. The former Ram went 73-69-68-67 for an 11-under-par 277 total.
The runner-up finish assured Laird of keeping his PGA Tour card for next season as he jumped from 120th place on the 2015-16 money list to 81st. The top 125 at the end of the season are fully exempt for the coming year.
Jobe Scores Big in Another Senior Major: Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Brandt Jobe finished fifth Sunday in the Senior British Open in Scotland, marking his third top-five showing in a senior major this year.
Jobe closed with a 6-under-par 66 Sunday to post a 7-under 281 total. He ended up four strokes behind champion Paul Broadhurst and earned $64,802 in the process.
Previously this year in senior majors, Jobe has placed third in the Senior PGA and fourth in the Senior Players Championship, along with 17th in the Regions Tradition.
Jobe ranks 17th on the 2016 PGA Tour Champions money list with $544,420.
Elsewhere: Former University of Colorado golfer Sebastian Heisele placed fourth Sunday in the Le Vaudreuil (France) Golf Challenge on the European Challenge Tour. After going 63-69-73-67, he came up two strokes shy of winner Alexander Bjork of Sweden. It was Heisele’s seventh top-20 finish of the Challenge Tour season. He’s 15th on the Challenge money list with 43,142 euros.