Jones joins fellow Sydney product Cameron Davis to have secured a US PGA Tour card for next year with Davis’ tie for 16th this week cementing his place inside the top 10 in the Web.com Tour Finals 25, two spots behind Jones in fifth position.
Cameron Davis’s hopes of a US PGA Tour card in 2019 have been brought back to life after the defending Australian Open champion finished third in the opening event of the Web.com Tour Finals in Ohio.
As his eyes welled up with tears, it was clear how meaningful this second victory was for Merritt, probably because he didn’t know if and when he’d ever get it.
With the (very little) power vested in golf writer Evin Priest, Australian Golf Digest’s man-on-the-ground hands out his best and worst awards from covering the 2017 US PGA Tour season. Buckle up for Australian golf media’s night of nights.