Whitney (left), who played his college golf at the Air Force Academy, shot rounds of 70-68 for a 6-under-par 138 total, which left him three strokes behind winner Ben Crancer at the Panther Trail Championship at The Woodlands, Texas that ended on Tuesday. Whitney, whose second-place showing last week also came at The Woodands, earned $1,765 on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, at a Cactus Tour event that ended Wednesday in Goodyear, Ariz., former University of Colorado golfer Brittany Fan ended up in fourth place.
Fan carded scores of 70-68-70 for an 8-under-par 208 and earned $800. She finished five strokes behind winner Kennedie Montoya of Thatcher, Ariz.

And at the Dreamchasers Tour Central Valley Winter Championship that concluded on Thursday in Phoenix, Zahkai Brown of Golden tied for seventh place with former CU golfer Jeremy Paul, while Paul’s brother and fellow former Buff Yannik Paul ended up 10th.

Brown went 67-66-71 for a 9-under-par 204 total and earned $1,183. Jeremy Paul carded rounds of 68-66-70 to tie Brown. And Yannik Paul fired scores of 69-66-70 for a 205 total, which was worth $950. John Greco of Sunnvale, Calif., won the event with a 193 total.
 

Whitney (left), a former Air Force Academy golfer, tied for second place on Friday in the Panther Trail Classic, an Adams All Pro Tour event in The Woodlands, Texas.

Whitney shot rounds of 66-72 for a 6-under-par 138 total, which left him five strokes behind champion Sean Walsh of Keller, Texas. The performance was worth $2,637 for Whitney.

Elsewhere:

— Former University of Denver golfer Chris Gilman tied for fourth place on Friday in the Golden State Tour’s Season Opener in Oceanside, Calif. Gilman went 69-67 for a 6-under 136 total. That put him three strokes behind winner Stuart Macdonald of Rancho Mirage, Calif.

— And Boulder native and former Louisville resident George Cunningham and former University of Colorado golfer Jeremy Paul tied for ninth place on Wednesday in the Outlaw Tour’s McCormick Ranch Classic in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Cunningham carded rounds of 73-70-70 for a 3-under-par 213 total, while Paul went 69-75-69 for the same tally. Each earned $1,325. Mackenzie Brock won with a 206 total.

— Meanwhile, in the first of four qualifying tournaments in 2019 for PGA Tour Latinoamerica, AJ Morris of Aspen fell just short of earning conditional status for PTLA on Friday.

With the 13th- through 35th-place finishers and ties in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., landing conditional status, Morris placed 41st out of 112 players, two strokes shy of the final spots. He posted rounds of 68-73-73-78 for a 4-over-par 292 total.
 

Paul, who wrapped up his CU golf career in May, finished fourth out of 19 players on Thursday at the 54-hole ASU Karsten Fall Championship on the Dreamchasers Tour in Tempe, Ariz. Paul (left) carded rounds of 66-71-72 for a 4-under-par 209 total, which left him six strokes behind winner Ray Knoll of Naperville, Ill. Paul, who advanced to the second stage of Web.com Tour Q-school this fall, earned $1,500 for the performance this week.

Coloradan Eric Hallberg, who won a Dreamchasers Tour event on Nov. 1, tied for 10th on Thursday at 219 after rounds of 73-76-70.

Morris, who like Paul went to the second stage of Web Q-school this year, placed third out of a 20-man field on Wednesday in the 18-hole Tampa Palm Series event on the West Florida Golf Tour. He shot a 73 and finished three strokes behind champion Tim Rosenhouse.
 

Rookie pro Hannah Wood of Highlands Ranch tied for third place on Wednesday in Palm Desert, Calif.

Wood, winner of the 2014 CWGA Stroke Play who wrapped up her University of Oklahoma career in the spring, shot rounds of 74-69-69 for a 4-under-par 212 total, which left her three strokes behind champion Kendra Dalton of Wake Forest, N.C.

The showing was worth $1,300 for Wood (left), who placed 67th at the Women’s NCAA Division I Championships in May.

This week marked Wood’s second top-five showing in three pro events. She placed fifth in the Michigan PGA Women’s Open in late June.

Former University of Colorado golfer Brittany Fan won The Cactus Tour event two weeks ago in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

Elsewhere in mini tour events this week, former Longmont resident Cole Nygren tied for fifth on Thursday in the Golden State Tour’s Yolo Fliers Club Pre-Q Shootout in Woodland, Calif.

Nygren, winner of the All Pro Championship at the inaugural Major Series of Putting last Halloween in Las Vegas, went 67-71 for a 6-under-par 138 total, a showing worth $685. Maxwell Cohen of Los Angeles won the event by nine strokes with a 126 total.

Amateur Emily Gilbreth, who represented Colorado in the final playing of the USGA Women’s State Team Championship, finished second in the Western Skies tournament on The Cactus Tour in Gilbert, Ariz. And Colorado Springs resident Samantha Stancato tied for fifth in the same event.

And former Air Force Academy golfer Tom Whitney ended up fourth in the weather-shortened Northwest Mississippi Championship on the Adams Pro Tour.

Whitney, who recently moved from Fort Collins to Texas, carded rounds of 69-69-71 for a 7-under-par 209 total, which left him four strokes behind champion Edward Olson. Whitney, who made the cut in the CareerBuilder Challenge on the PGA Tour earlier this year, earned $6,530. He finished with 15 birdies and an eagle in three rounds.

In the Western Skies tournament, Gilbreth, the 2017 CWGA Match Play champion, ended up tied for second, three strokes behind winner Sirene Blair of South Jordan, Utah, after taking a double bogey on the final round of the event. Gilbreth went 65-72-74 for a 5-under 211 total.

Stancato, meanwhile, posted scores of 71-72-71 to check in at 214.
 

The former Colorado State University golfer placed fifth out of 44 players in the Dreamchasers Tour’s East Valley Championship, recording rounds of 72-65-73 for a 3-under-par 210 total at Longbow Golf Club. The showing was worth $1,950.

Edens (pictured), a two-time CGA Match Play runner-up, ended up nine strokes behind winner Zach Wright of Gilbert, Ariz.

Elsewhere on mini tours, former University of Denver golfer Chris Gilman finished ninth out of 93 players Wednesday at the Golden State Tour’s De Anza Classic in Borrego Springs, Calif

Gilman, who won a Golden State Tour event two weeks ago, carded scores of 66-69-71 for a 10-under-par 206 total. He finished six strokes behind champion Kramer Hickok of Dallas.
 

The former Colorado State University golfer tied for sixth place Saturday in the Adams Pro Tour’s Coca-Cola Dr. Pepper Open in Alexandria, La., which featured a whopping field of 180 players.

Between the Dreamchasers and Adams Tours, Brown (pictured) has now placed in the top 10 in five consecutive tournaments.

Another former CSU golfer, Riley Arp of Fort Collins, is on an even longer streak, having notched seven straight top-10s on the Dreamchasers and Adams Tours. Thanks to a 7-under-par 65 on Saturday, Arp tied for 10th place on Saturday.

Brown, the 2013 CoBank Colorado Open champion, closed with a 1-under 71 on Saturday, leaving him with an 18-under 270 total, which left the former Ram seven strokes back of winner Conner Godsey of Rogersville, Ala. Brown, now 69 under par in his last 13 mini tour rounds, earned $4,695 this week. He carded scores of 66-70-63-71 in Louisiana.

Arp went 69-68-69-65 to check in at 271 and earn $2,880. Tying Arp for 10th place was Joshua Creel (72-68-63-68–271), who played some of his college golf at the University of Colorado before transferring to Central Oklahoma.

Goddard 9th in Dreamchasers Tourney: Meanwhile, on the Dreamchasers Tour, Nate Goddard of Fort Collins finished ninth in the Wigwam Gold Major that ended Wednesday in Litchfield Park, Ariz.

The 2016 CGA Match Play champion carded rounds of 71-70-71 for a 4-under-par 212 total, which left him six strokes behind champion Evan Bowser of Dearborn, Mich.

Former DU Golfer Gilman Medalist in PGA Tour Canada Q-School: Former University of Denver golfer Chris Gilman claimed medalist honors in the PGA Tour Canada Q-school tournament that ended Friday in Santee, Calif.

Gilman will be exempt throughout the 2017 PGA Tour Canada season, which starts June 1, by virtue of shooting rounds of 66-69-71-71 in Santee. His 11-under-par 277 total was four strokes better than runners-up Preston Valder and Matthew Picanso.

Four more PGA Tour Canada Q-school tournaments will be held in the next two months.

The former Colorado State University golfer, winner of the 2013 CoBank Colorado Open, shot rounds of 65-67-65 for a 19-under-par 197 total. That tied him for the top spot after 54 holes, but Brad Hopfinger of Chicago prevailed in a playoff with a birdie on the second extra hole.

In the final round, Brown (pictured) made seven birdies and two bogeys and eagled the 378-yard, par-4 11th hole. He earned $3,300.

Another former CSU golfer, Riley Arp of Fort Collins, also posted a top-10 finish with a 10th-place showing. Arp, who went 71-68-68–207, remains atop the 2017 Dreamchasers money list with $8,850.

Arp has placed in the top 10 in all four Dreamchasers events this year.

Also this week in mini-tour action, Betsy Kelly of Denver finished sixth and Samantha Stancato of Colorado Springs was 10th in a Cactus Tour tournament, also in Litchfield Park.

Kelly, a former CSU golfer, carded scores of 75-74-71 for a 4-over-par 220 total, while Stancato went 74-73-78–225.
 

This week, the Arvada resident hit the mark with a victory on the Dreamchasers Tour’s Golf Club at Estrella Championship in Goodyear, Ariz.

The former Colorado State University golfer prevailed by four Wednesday after posting rounds of 67-67-68 for a 14-under-par 202 total.

The victory was worth $3,850 for the 2013 Colorado Open, which is now sponsored by CoBank.

Also scoring a top-three finish this week on the mini tours was another former CSU golfer, Cameron Harrell of Colorado Springs, who tied for third place Thursday in the OnCore Gateway Tour’s Patrick Gibbons Handmade Classic in Chandler, Ariz.

The showing was Harrell’s second straight top-five on the Gateway Tour. This time, he made birdies on his last three holes of the tournament and carded rounds of 72-67-66 for an 8-under-par 205 total, which left him three strokes behind champion Shane Smith. Harrell earned $2,100.
 

Parker Edens (pictured) of Greeley, who won a Dreamchasers Tour event last month, racked up his third top-10 in six Dreamchasters tournaments in 2016 by tying for fifth Thursday in the Club West Classic in Phoenix.

The two-time CGA Match Play runner-up posted rounds of 69-70-67 for a 7-under-par 206 total that left him three shots back of champion Ty Travis of Boise, Idaho. Edens made $1,081.

Meanwhile, at the OnCore Gateway Tour’s Moon Valley Open, also in Phoenix, Zahkai Brown of Arvada finished eighth on Thursday. The former CoBank Colorado Open champion went 65-71-71 for a 9-under-par 207 total, making two eagles and 13 birdies in three rounds. Brown earned $1,800.

Jimmy Gunn, winner of last year’s Colorado Open, tied for second at 202, making $3,800.

And former University of Colorado golfer Jenny Coleman placed ninth in a Cactus Tour tournament that ended Wednesday in Sun City, Ariz. Coleman, who placed third in a Symetra Tour event last month, posted rounds of 78-71-73 for a 6-over-par 222, earning $625.