Knox secures return to the PGA Tour

Scotland’s Russell Knox has secured his return to golf’s top table after winning his PGA Tour card at the Web.com Tour Championship.

Inverness-born Knox, who previously played on the tour in 2012, finished 20th on the feeder circuit’s rankings, with the top 50 players earning cards for next season’s PGA Tour.

His one-under-par final round of 69 in the Web.com’s shoot-out at TPC Sawgrass was good enough for him to finish in a tie for sixth place, which shot him up the rankings and comfortably back onto the PGA Tour.

This was the first year of the all-new Web.com Tour Finals, which had a similar structure to the main PGA Tour, with a regular season followed by a season-ending series of tournaments.

“It was a rollercoaster of a day. I’m just so proud of what he has accomplished.”

The series consisted of four tournaments, contested by the top 75 on the Web.com Tour regular-season money list, plus the players finishing between 126 and 200 on the FedEx Cup points list.

A total of 50 PGA Tour cards for the following season were awarded at the end of the Finals – 25 to the top regular-season money winners on the Web.com Tour, with the remaining 25 determined by total money earned during the finals.

Knox, who turned pro in 2007 after completing a golf scholarship at Jacksonville University, made 12 cuts from 15 starts on the Web.com Tour this season, as well as eight of 11 cuts on main the PGA Tour.

Speaking to the Golf Channel afterwards, Knox’s father Mike said: “It was a rollercoaster of a day. I’m just so proud of what he has accomplished.”

Michael McEwan is the Deputy Editor of bunkered and has been part of the team since 2004. In that time, he has interviewed almost every major figure within the sport, from Jack Nicklaus, to Rory McIlroy, to Donald Trump. The host of the multi award-winning bunkered Podcast and a member of Balfron Golfing Society, Michael is the author of three books and is the 2023 PPA Scotland 'Writer of the Year' and 'Columnist of the Year'. Dislikes white belts, yellow balls and iron headcovers. Likes being drawn out of the media ballot to play Augusta National.

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