Meanwhile, Colorado resident David Duval, a onetime No. Stadler is playing on a major medical extension which requires him to earn $717,890 in his next 16 PGA Tour starts to keep his card. But a left hand injury he sustained in November 2014 while playing in China has certainly derailed a career which includes one PGA Tour victory. Stadler, a two-time CGA Match Play champion and winner of a Colorado Open, has long been on the verge of surpassing $10 million in career PGA Tour earnings (he’s at $9,698,197). The last time he earned official PGA Tour money at an event was in October 2014, where he placed 28th in the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open. Part-time Denver resident Kevin Stadler has missed the cut in - or withdrew/been disqualified from - 23 consecutive Tour events. Meanwhile, two Coloradans are looking to end long droughts on the PGA Tour. 4 American in the World Golf Rankings, Kupcho will likely be in the mix for spots in the Solheim Cup and the Olympics, both of which are scheduled to be contested this year. 19 in the Women’s World Golf Rankings and has posted two runner-up finishes on the LPGA Tour, including one in October and the other in a 2019 major.Īs the No. Kupcho, the 2020 CoBank Colorado Women’s Open champion, sits No. The 23-year-old, who won the 2018 NCAA Division I individual title and the 2019 Augusta National Women’s Amateur, has $906,592 in career earnings in 33 LPGA starts as pro. Jennifer Kupcho, who was born in Littleton and raised in Westminster, is on the verge of surpassing $1 million in career LPGA earnings, which isn’t bad considering she only accepted her tour card about 19 months ago. teams at the Solheim Cup and/or the Olympics. ![]() Jennifer Kupcho could be in the mix to play on U.S. He currently stands at $19,065,915 after ending a 7 1/2-year Tour victory drought in 2020. With a good 2020 by his standards, Laird will likely reach $20 million in career PGA Tour earnings. Stadler was the last Coloradan to play in the Masters, in 2015. Assuming nothing prevents the four-time PGA Tour winner from competing, it’ll be his first Masters since 2013. In addition, Laird received an invitation to play in the 2021 Masters in April. In his three previous starts in the Tournament of Champions, Laird has been impressive, placing fourth in 2010, second in 2012 and 20th in 2014. Due to the three-month PGA Tour shutdown due to Covid-19 last year, also teeing it up will be anyone who made the field for the 2020 Tour Championship. He’ll be one of 42 players competing this week as not only tournament winners were invited this year. Laird earned a spot in the field by winning the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas in October. The last to tee it up at that event was part-time Denver resident Kevin Stadler. Martin Laird, the former Colorado State University golfer who moved to the Denver area in 2020, this week will become the first local player since 2015 to compete in the PGA Tour’s Tournament of Champions. Here’s some things to look for from local golfers on tour in 2021: And several players on the verge of prize-money-winning milestones (think surpassing $1 million, $10, $20 million, etc.). So what’s in store for 2021 for locals competing on those tours?Ī Coloradan playing in the Masters - and the PGA Tour’s Tournament of Champions - for the first time in six years. ![]() And the LPGA Tour gears back up with the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Jan. ![]() PGA Tour Champions will first tee it up in 2021 at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, set for Jan. No time will be wasted in conducting the first big-time tour event of the year as the wraparound PGA Tour season schedule resumes on Thursday with the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Maui, Hawaii. The calendar has flipped to 2021, and an eventful year it figures to be for major tour players with strong connections to Colorado. Major Tour milestones likely await locals Laird, Kupcho, Jobe in 2021
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