This article is part of our Golf Draft Kit series.
The following 50 golfers won 2014-15 PGA Tour cards from last season's Web.com Tour.
• R = PGA Tour rookies
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| GOLFER | 2013-14 PGA EVENTS | 2013-14 PGA EARNINGS | 2014-15 PROJ. EARNINGS | 2014-15 SEASON OUTLOOK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Sterne | 7 | $55,732 | $1,300,000 | The European Tour veteran from South Africa has tinkered with the PGA Tour, but now has his card for the first time. With six Euro wins - he walloped runner-up Charl Schwartzel by seven strokes in February 2013 in Johannesburg -- he's not your ordinary newcomer. But he's also still recovering from hip surgery. He missed the cut in the Open Championship but finished T35 at the PGA Championship. At 33, he's got a lot of golf left and, if healthy, should be a lock for the top 125 and perhaps a lot more. A key will be how many starts he gets and, being ninth in the priority rankings, he should do well in that department. |
| Justin Thomas - R | NA | NA | $1,200,000 | Thomas has an opportunity to be an absolute stud on the PGA Tour. A part of an Alabama team that won a National Championship, Thomas won the third Web.com Tour Finals event, the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship, in a playoff for his first win of the year. Coupled with a second, third, fourth, and a fifth, it was an extremely solid year for Thomas, who finished fifth in total season money, will start the 2014-2015 PGA Tour season second on the Reshuffle List, |
The following 50 golfers won 2014-15 PGA Tour cards from last season's Web.com Tour.
• R = PGA Tour rookies
Click column headings to sort.
| GOLFER | 2013-14 PGA EVENTS | 2013-14 PGA EARNINGS | 2014-15 PROJ. EARNINGS | 2014-15 SEASON OUTLOOK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Sterne | 7 | $55,732 | $1,300,000 | The European Tour veteran from South Africa has tinkered with the PGA Tour, but now has his card for the first time. With six Euro wins - he walloped runner-up Charl Schwartzel by seven strokes in February 2013 in Johannesburg -- he's not your ordinary newcomer. But he's also still recovering from hip surgery. He missed the cut in the Open Championship but finished T35 at the PGA Championship. At 33, he's got a lot of golf left and, if healthy, should be a lock for the top 125 and perhaps a lot more. A key will be how many starts he gets and, being ninth in the priority rankings, he should do well in that department. |
| Justin Thomas - R | NA | NA | $1,200,000 | Thomas has an opportunity to be an absolute stud on the PGA Tour. A part of an Alabama team that won a National Championship, Thomas won the third Web.com Tour Finals event, the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship, in a playoff for his first win of the year. Coupled with a second, third, fourth, and a fifth, it was an extremely solid year for Thomas, who finished fifth in total season money, will start the 2014-2015 PGA Tour season second on the Reshuffle List, and is in prime position to make a fall charge. Averaging 311.5 yards off the tee and ending the year third in scoring average, fantasy players will want to draft and start this guy early and often: he's got the making of an absolute young gun. |
| Carlos Ortiz - R | NA | NA | $1,000,000 | While there may be more accomplished rookies in terms of their track records before joining the Web.com Tour, there's no one who had a better year on the Web.com Tour than Ortiz. Ortiz won three times, at the Panama Claro Championship, El Bosque Mexico Championship, and WinCo Foods Portland Open presented by Kraft, earning a Battlefield Promotion that makes him fully exempt on the PGA Tour for next season, allowing him to pick his own schedule. Statistically he finished fifth in the All-Around Ranking and sixth in total driving. He was overtaken in the overall regular season + finals money list by Adam Hadwin, which negated a shot of getting into The Players, but it was still a hugely successful campaign for Ortiz. Look for big things from Ortiz. |
| Adam Hadwin - R | NA | NA | $1,000,000 | Hadwin has a chance to be an absolute star. He lit it up in the Web.com Tour Finals, going missed cut (MC)-1-T10-T7 over the four events. The win, his second of the year, came at the Chiquita Classic, and aided by his victory earlier in the season Chile Classic and eight other top-10s, Hadwin was able to supplant Ortiz at the Web.com Tour Championship for the leading Web.com Tour Regular Season + Finals Money List earner, which gets him fully exempt, into the 2015 Players, and off of the Reshuffle List. With fellow Canadian and rising PGA Tour star Graham DeLaet as a resource to help ease his entry into the PGA Tour, look for his rookie season to be one that could include a victory, and possibly a fall win at that. With the PGA Tour season starting October 9 at the Frys.com Open, Hadwin could be a player who carries that momentum into an early season run on the biggest stage in golf. |
| Derek Fathauer | 1 | $13,320 | $1,000,000 | Based on winning the four-event Web.com Tour finals, including Tour Championship last week, Fathauer will be second in priority rankings and exempt from the reshuffle. This was by far his best professional season and, at age 28, may be headed for a breakthrough. Last year's Web.com Tour finals winner, John Peterson, failed miserably, finishing 179th in the FedEx Cup standings, but Fathauer should fare better, and even qualify for the FEC playoffs - he also already qualified for The Players Championship. He was second on the Web.com Tour in putting this past season en route to eight top 10s. |
| Hudson Swafford | 26 | $513,883 | $800,000 | Swafford's anticipated rookie PGA Tour season resulted in a return to the Web.com Tour finals to regain his card. While he is out of the hotbed University of Georgia, the 27-year-old made only 11-of-26 cuts, finishing 146th in the standings. His lone top 10 came in January, with four other top 25s. Can he improve? We suppose so, so the top 125 will be a close call. |
| Eric Axley | 10 | $180,734 | $800,000 | The veteran left-hander is now 40, and eight years removed from his lone PGA Tour win (the Valero Texas Open). He's battled injuries and has played only 23 PGA events in the past five years, At 50th in the priority rankings, he won't play that many this year. However, in his 10 events in 2013-14, he made seven cuts with two top 25s to wind up 184th in the standings. So, if he plays 18-20 times, could he break the top 125? Based on those 10 events, yes. |
| David Lingmerth | 26 | $676,661 | $750,000 | Lingmerth's claim to fame was finishing second to Tiger Woods in the 2013 Players Championship. He kept his card for 2014, and barely missed the playoffs, at 134th in the standings. But he returns via the Web.com Tour finals, with a decent No. 17 spot in the priority rankings. At 5-foot-7, 175 pounds, he's among the shorter (in distance) drivers on tour, and isn't a great putter. Not a good combination. |
| John Peterson | 25 | $238,230 | $625,000 | A star golfer out of LSU, Peterson won the Web.com Tour finals last year to become a touted PGA Tour rookie. And he proceeded to fall flat, making only seven of 25 cuts. But he used another strong Web.com playoffs, with one second-place check, to get back to the Show. At only 25, he may have just needed to take his lumps for a year, so expect a better effort than 179th in the FEC standings. But how much better is the big question. Making the top 125 will be a close call. |
| Zac Blair - R | NA | NA | $600,000 | What Zac Blair did in the past month is utterly sensational. Graduating from BYU earlier this year with a degree in Recreation Management, Blair qualified for the U.S. Open, tying for 40th. He didn't play his first Web.com Tour event until July, but made enough money in basically a two month timeframe to qualify for the Web.com Tour Finals (a T2 at the Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr Pepper certainly helped). But then his game hit a cold snap and he missed the cut in the first three Finals events, shooting no rounds in the 60s, before turning it ON at the Web.com Tour Championship, opening with 63-65 and ending up finishing solo second. That all adds up to an eighth place starting spot on the Reshuffle List and a ton of positive vibes heading into the Frys.com Open in two weeks. |
| Zach Sucher - R | NA | NA | $600,000 | Sucher's season started slowly but he was still able to clinch his card by virtue of a three week stretch that helped him finish third on the regular season Web.com Tour money list. It started at the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Kraft Nabisco where he tied for fourth, continued seven days later with a victory at the Midwest Classic, and finished it off the following week with a tie for second at the Stonebrae Classic. In total he amassed six top-10s and 11 top-25s in 25 starts. Seventh in the Web.com Tour All-Around Ranking last season, if Sucher can get better consistency (he missed nine cuts), he could be in line for a solid PGA Tour season. |
| Jason Gore | 7 | $273,857 | $600,000 | One of the more colorful golfers around, Gore thus received a number of PGA Tour sponsor's exemptions last year despite not having his card. He even had a top 10, albeit in the opposite-field Puerto Rico Open. So he should get a good number of starts in 2014-15. He's one of the handful of PGA Tour winners among the 50, taking the long-forgotten 2005 84 Lumber Classic. But that was long ago, and he hasn't even won on the Web.com Tour in four years. Despite the fact that everyone will be rooting for him, his best days are far behind. He could secure another top 10 or two, but don't expect much more. |
| Max Homa | 8 | $195,924 | $600,000 | Seeking Special Temporary Membership, Homa played eight events last year while not accruing FedEx Cup points. He started off terrifically, finishing T9 as a sponsor exemption in the season-opening Frys, using that top 10 to get into the Shriners, in which he finished 30th. But that was that, and his bid for STM stalled. He turned to the Web.com Tour in May, and finished in the top 25 in regular-season earnings. So he's a bit hard to predict. But top 125 seems out of range. |
| Heath Slocum | 23 | $566,167 | $550,000 | Slocum nearly missed this whole month-long Web.com Tour odyssey by a whisper back in the Wyndham Championship. He entered the final event before the playoffs and nearly won it, instead falling just shy - and just shy of the top 125. But until then, he was 158th in the standings. So what's different this year for the 40-year-old four-time champion? Not much. |
| Andrew Putnam - R | NA | NA | $500,000 | Putnam, the brother of current PGA Tour player Michael Putnam (who finished the 2013-2014 season 93rd in FedEx Cup points), used a victory at the WNB Golf Classic and a second at the season-opening Pacific Rubiales Colombia Championship Presented by Claro to finish the regular season second in money to clinch his PGA Tour card. He concluded the year with three other top-10s and 13 top-25 finishes in 22 starts. Ninth in putting average and ninth in scoring average on the Web.com Tour this past season, having his brother as a resource could help shorten the learning curve and get Putnam contending on the PGA Tour early on in the fall. |
| Bud Cauley | 19 | $647,886 | $500,000 | Cauley is a rarity among the top 50: He's played the last three seasons on the PGA Tour, this past season finishing 143rd in the point standings, and regained his card by winning the Web.com Tour finals opener. But after missing the cut the next week, he underwent surgery to repair the labrum in his left shoulder. So even though he's among the most-tested of the new grads - 38th in the FEC point standings in 2012 -- he will miss 4-6 months. He starts out fourth in the priority rankings, but it's hard to miss that much time and succeed. |
| J.J. Henry | 28 | $554,615 | $500,000 | Henry has been a Tour regular since 2001, and made the playoffs every year, until finishing 128th this past season. He didn't exactly shine in the Web.com Tour finals, flubbing three events but using one fifth-place standing to carry him through. So where does that leave the 39-year-old after his worst year on Tour? Probably no better than 128th in the standings. |
| Tyrone Van Aswegen | 25 | $454,856 | $500,000 | The 32-year-old South African completed his first year on the PGA Tour in 144th place in the point standings, and regained his card via the Web.com Tour finals. Van Aswegen made 15-of-25 cuts with four top 25s. From 1011-13, he wasn't exceptional on the Web.com Tour, either. Outside of the top 125 seems likely for him again. |
| Nick Taylor - R | NA | NA | $450,000 | Of the guys who made it through via the Web.com Tour Finals, Taylor might have the best story of them all. Dewsweeping in one of the first groups out, Taylor shot a 63 on the Dye Valley course at TPC Sawgrass in the final round of the Web.com Tour Championship to clinch his card, capping off a season in which he had no top-5 finishes but three top-30 finishes in the Web.com Tour Finals that gave him enough money to get a PGA Tour card. 11 missed cuts in 24 starts certainly doesn't have a nice look to it, and a Reshuffle List of 34th will make the road tougher, but that 63 did show that this guy has a lot of moxie. |
| Alex Cejka - W | 6 | $57,059 | $450,000 | Cejka returns to the PGA Tour with his card for the first time since 2012 and, at 44, is the second oldest of the 50 Web.com Tour graduates. Beginning with a priority ranking of 18th among the 50, he should get in excess of 20 starts, but combining his age and the fact he's not a long hitter, it's hard to envision him making an impact, or even retaining his card without returning to the Web.com Tour finals. |
| Chad Collins | 28 | $408,434 | $425,000 | Collins missed 17-of-28 PGA Tour cuts, with only a January top 10, to finish 159th in the point standings. Now 47th in the priority rankings, he will be hard-pressed to improve on that standing. Collins has made the FedEx Cup playoffs just once, in 2010. |
| Tony Finau - R | NA | NA | $400,000 | Finau is a former Big Break contestant - he finished second, losing in the championship match on season 12, Big Break: Disney Golf in 2009 - and will try to join Tommy "Two Gloves" Gainey as the only Big Break alumni to win on the PGA Tour. He got to the PGA Tour by virtue of his victory at the Stonebrae Classic, which included middle rounds of 62-63, and four other top-10s. Averaging 310.3 yards off the tee and ranking ninth in the Web.com Tour All-Around Ranking, Finau is someone to watch in the fall because he ended the year on an up note: finishing T19-T46-T6-T14 over the course of the Web.com Tour Finals. If he can acclimate himself quickly to life on the PGA Tour, look for him to contend early. |
| Sean O'Hair | 25 | $408,793 | $400,000 | Here's the biggest enigma in the entire top 50. Or maybe he's just a former enigma and just not very good anymore. O'Hair, with four PGA Tour wins, lastly in 2011, was 160th in the FEC point standings. And 170th the year before. So what should be different this coming season? Probably nothing. |
| Blayne Barber - R | NA | NA | $350,000 | Barber is most known for his good sportsmanship after he disqualified himself from the first stage of PGA Tour Qualifying School in 2012 six days after play was completed after he was unsure he broke a rule while in a bunker (http://golfweek.com/news/2012/nov/05/blayne-barber-disqualifies-himself-six-days-after-/). The golfing gods have a way of rewarding people who do the right thing, and less than two years later, Barber is now a PGA Tour rookie. (As that Golfweek Magazine article reminds us, Chesson Hadley, who got through only because Barber DQ'd himself, was the only PGA Tour rookie to win on tour in 2013-2014. He never makes it to the Web.com Tour for 2013 if Barber doesn't DQ himself.) This year on the Web.com Tour Barber used a win at the South Georgia Classic presented by First State Bank and Trust Company and a T3 at the BMW Charity Pro-Am Presented by SYNNEX Corporation two weeks later to help earn enough money to get his card. He finished the regular season seventh on the money list, and tacked on a T6 finish at the third Finals event to help his Reshuffle List position. With some more good fortune on his side, Barber could have a great chance to erase a lot of demons this season on the PGA Tour |
| Whee Kim - R | NA | NA | $350,000 | Kim, a 22-year old South Korean who turned pro in 2010, had a spotty Web.com Tour season. He came out of the gate fast with a T8 in his first start of the season in South America, but soon started to play inconsistently, mixing mid-level finishes with missed cuts. His only regular season top-10 came at the Cleveland Open in June, and needed a third place finish at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship to seal his card. A short hitter who averaged just 288.1 yards off the tee this season and was just 31st in the All-Around Ranking, Kim will need to be accurate off the tee and hit a lot of greens (think Zach Johnson) to succeed on the PGA Tour. He's got the talent to do it - in 2012 he led for two rounds at the PGA Tour Qualifying School and beat Kevin Na in a playoff at the Shinhan Donghae Open, an event which featured Paul Casey and Charlie Wi coming up just short of the playoff - so fantasy owners will want to keep tabs on him early and often. |
| Mark Hubbard - R | NA | NA | $300,000 | Nine top-25s in 24 starts helped propel Hubbard to the PGA Tour, with a T2 at the United Leasing Championship Presented by PTI his best performance of the season. Most impressive about Hubbard's season is probably the fact that he only missed the cut five times, something that if repeated next season on the PGA Tour, will do him a ton of good. Ranking 28th in the All-Around Ranking, his starting spot of 31st on the Reshuffle List will put him in a bit of a hole if he doesn't play well, but if he can rack up a bunch of mid-pack-at-worst finishes, he could start 2015 in a position of having a lot more starts on the west coast. |
| Daniel Berger - R | NA | NA | $300,000 | Berger didn't get in the winner's circle during the 2014 Web.com Tour season but certainly came close, ending the year with a second and two thirds. The two thirds came in a three-week span, impressive stuff considering a MC was the middle result. Berger's Web.com Tour Finals was a bit spotty, as he only played three of the four events, going T19-MC-65. As a result, his Reshuffle List position is hurt, as he'll start the 2014-2015 PGA Tour season mid-pack, in 25th. The eighth longest hitter on tour who ranked 16th in greens in regulation this past season, Berger will need to make the rookie adjustment to the PGA Tour, get enough starts, and play well in those starts to have a successful season. It's a lot to ask, but is doable if he plays well enough. |
| Sam Saunders | 1 | $18,476 | $300,000 | Let's get this out of the way: He's Arnold Palmer's grandson. Saunders registered four top 16s in the Web.com Tour finals, after having a lackluster regular season. The 27-year-old from Clemson played one PGA Tour event last year - yes, it was Bay Hill. But he acquitted himself nicely, finishing T43 (after a final-round 77). It's a feel-good story that he's made the Tour but, despite having a good priority ranking at No. 13, he'll probably be more pauper than the second coming of the King. |
| Colt Knost | 1 | $0 | $300,000 | Knost played on the PGA Tour in 2009 and 2011-13, highlighted by two third-place showings in 2012. He didn't have a strong season on the Web.com Tour, but got hot at the right time, with a runner-up, another top 10 and a top 15 in the playoffs. So while he has a No. 6 priority ranking, he played well in a very small sample size to get there. It doesn't bode well for a strong return to the PGA Tour. |
| Scott Pickney - R | NA | NA | $275,000 | Pickney peaked at the right time, and thus has a ticket on the PGA Tour. After an erratic opening part of his season, he finished T11 and T5 at the final two regular season events, and then went T25-T4-WD-T14 in the Finals. With the 2014-2015 PGA Tour season starting in just two weeks at the Frys.com Open, that's the kind of momentum that can propel someone into contention early and often. Another reason to like Pickney: he shot two 65s at the Web.com Tour Championship, when theoretically the pressure should have been at its highest. |
| Tom Gillis | 0 | NA | $250,000 | Gillis has had an interesting stretch the past five years, the first four spent on the PGA Tour. He was 43rd in the point standings in 2010, 114th in 2011 and 40th in 2012 before plummeting to 152nd in 2013 to lose his card. But he's back, but he's also now 46 years old. But he was fifth in putting average on the Web.com tour, third in birdie average in second putts per round. Is that enough to turn in a good season, even in the top 150? Probably not. |
| Jim Herman | 21 | $187,337 | $250,000 | Herman had some good 2013 PGA Tour numbers - fifth in the total driving and fifth in ball striking - that boded well for some decent play in 2013-14. But he slumped badly in both and, combined with his traditionally poor putting, wound up back in the Web.com Tour finals. He used a pair of fourth-place showing to return to the PGA Tour for a third straight year and fourth in five. He didn't so much as have a top 25 last season, and finishing inside the 125 seems a stretch at this point. |
| Jon Curran - R | NA | NA | $200,000 | Curran finished 12th on the regular season money list and enters the 2014-2015 PGA Tour season in 21st (out of 50) position on the Reshuffle List. He earned his PGA Tour card via a win at the Brasil Champions Presented by HSBC and two other top-10 finishes. He struggled for much of the summer, however, and missed the cut in 11 of his last 13 starts. As a result he's got little momentum heading into the fall, and would appear to be the perfect player to have a tough time making the immediate adjustment from the Web.com Tour to the PGA Tour. There's no doubt that Curran has a lot of talent, but as someone who finished 116th in the Web.com Tour All-Around Ranking, fantasy players should hold off on drafting or starting him in the fall until they see his play improve. |
| Byron Smith - R | NA | NA | $175,000 | Smith found the winner's circle in late May at the Rex Hospital Open when he shot 63-66 on the weekend to seal his first victory. The very next week was his only other top-10 finish, a T8 at the Cleveland Open. Ranking 128th in total driving with nine missed cuts in 24 starts, Smith will need to improve on his consistency to succeed at the next level. In addition, with MC-T46-withdrawl-MC his line for the Web.com Tour Finals and a 39th starting spot on the Reshuffle List, fantasy owners may want to see improved play from Smith before starting him on their team. |
| Andres Gonzales | 2 | $75,000 | $175,000 | He's proven to be a quality Web.com Tour golfer, with victories in his last two full seasons. That helped get him back to the PGA Tour, which he played full-time in 2011 and 2013, with just one top 10. He's only 31, a time when some golfers are entering their prime, but Gonzalez is probably not one of them. If he finishes in the top 200, he'll qualify again for next year's Web.com Tour finals. |
| Fabian Gomez | 4 | $27,616 | $175,000 | Gomez is back after full-time duty in 2011 and 2013, when he notched his best finish, runner-up in the opposite-field Puerto Rico Open. A second-place finish on the Web.com Tour helped him get back, securing a top-25 spot on the regular-season money list. At 48th in the priority rankings, it's not a good place to be. |
| Jonathan Randolph - R | NA | NA | $150,000 | Randolph also got close but didn't quite sniff the winner's circle in 2014 on the Web.com Tour. He had a second, two thirds, and a fourth en route to over $200,000 in earnings and a 27th place Reshuffle List position to start the 2014-2015 PGA Tour season. 120th in driving accuracy and 139th in greens in regulation last year on the Web.com Tour, however, Randolph will need to improve on his consistency to succeed on the PGA Tour. If that doesn't happen, it could be a long year and end in a trip right back to the Web.com Tour Finals. |
| Greg Owen | 8 | $95,117 | $150,000 | After playing on the PGA Tour for seven of nine years from 2005-2013, the Englishman lost his card. He used a victory on the Web.com Tour - his first on either tour - to return. He's now 42 and, though he was as high as 88th in the standings as recently as 2012,that seems like wishful thinking in 2014-15. |
| Bill Lunde | 1 | $0 | $150,000 | Lunde won the 2010 Turning Stone Resort Championship for his lone PGA Tour title, and he cleared $1 million in earnings. Let's hope he saved, because it's not happening again. He also had some decent years in 2009, '11-'12 for a four-year run on Tour. He finished 22nd on the Web.com Tour money list to regain his card and, at 44th in the priority rankings, will have a tough time getting enough starts to make a dent. |
| Cameron Percy | 0 | NA | $125,000 | The 40-year-old Aussie returns to the PGA tour after a one-year absence, having Web.com Tour victory and third-place finish facilitate his promotion. In 2013, Percy missed 13-of-21 PGA cuts, with only one top 25. A similar 2014-15 seems in the cards for him. |
| Steve Wheatcroft | 0 | NA | $125,000 | Wheatcroft played on the PGA Tour in 2007, '10 and '12, with a lone top 10 (third in 2010). He used a victory on the Web.com Tour this past season as a springboard to regaining his card, but it was his lone top 10 all year. So Wheatcroft caught lightning in a bottle for one week, rather than playing good golf for a long stretch. As such, with a less-than-favorable No. 36 priority ranking to start the season, he will not make an impact on the PGA Tour. |
| Alex Prugh | 16 | $90,606 | $125,000 | After only four made cuts in 16 PGA Tour starts, resulting in 206th in the point standings, Prugh played his best golf of the season in the Web.com Tour finals to come back for a fourth go-round on the PGA Tour. Being an economics major at the University of Washington, Prugh should know things don't look much brighter for him monetarily this time. |
| Steve Alker | 1 | $0 | $125,000 | The 43-year-old New Zealander played full-time on the PGA Tour only once, back in 2003. He had a win and a second on the Web.com Tour to regain playing privileges, and is 20th in the opening priority rankings. This could amount to a final shot in the Big Show for the veteran, as making a name for himself at this stage of his career seems unlikely, to say the least. |
| Ryan Armour | 0 | NA | $100,000 | The 38-year-old Ohioan used five top 10s, including a runner-up, to finish in the top 25 on the Web.com Tour regular-season money list, which is a good thing, since he missed the last three cuts of the playoffs. At 40th in the priority ranking, getting 20 PGA Tour starts will be difficult. Armour played two PGA seasons, in 2007-08, with three top 10s. Don't expect him to play two consecutive seasons this time around. |
| Kyle Reifers | 2 | $12,300 | $100,000 | Reifers won once on the Web.com Tour - in 2006. This season, he parlayed three top 3s to eke inside the top 25 on the money list, and is an unfavorable 38th in the priority rankings. The 30-year old has two prior PGA Tour seasons, in 2007 and 2012, without much fanfare. That will continue in 2014-15. |
| Tom Hoge - R | NA | NA | $80,000 | Hoge used the Web.com Tour Finals to seal his card for the 2014-2015 PGA Tour season after failing to get a top-10 finish on the Web.com Tour until July and having no top-5 finish until his third at the Chiquita Classic, the second Finals event. Overall he went T53-3-T22-T52 over the four Finals events, and will look to take that momentum into the fall. On the flipside, he's not overly impressive statistically, and the lack of a top-10 for the first half of the Web.com Tour season could spell trouble on the big stage. Fantasy owners need to be patient and see how Hoge plays. |
| Roger Sloan - R | NA | NA | $75,000 | The good news: Sloan was a champion on the Web.com Tour in 2014, winning the Nova Scotia Open in a playoff. The bad news: it was his only top-10 finish of the season in 23 starts. He did make 14 cuts, yet had only four top-25s, and he's better than 31st in only two statistical categories. That lack of strong play across a wide swath of the year (he started his season in February) is troublesome. Keep an eye on him because he does have winning talent - he won in a playoff after all - but it could be a very streaky year as he adjusts. |
| Oscar Fraustro - R | NA | NA | $75,000 | Fraustro is proof that some awful play can be erased with some timely good finishes. He missed 13 of 22 cuts during the Web.com Tour regular season - with a T5 and T9 sprinkled in, and to make matters worse missed the cut in three of the four Web.com Tour Finals events. Yet the one event he did make the cut in was a T4 at the Chiquita Classic, good enough to have a 2014-2015 PGA Tour card. Though he was 10th in total driving on the Web.com Tour this season, his overall inconsistency will scare a lot of fantasy owners away and we recommend the same: stay away until you see Fraustro put together two consistent weeks. |
| Sung Joon Park - R | NA | NA | $45,000 | Park had a kind of odd year. In 15 events he made 8 cuts, but was either really good - he had a T3 in February and a T5 in June - or really bad, missing six cuts and being disqualified once. But a T14-T11 finish at the last two Web.com Tour Finals events gave him a PGA Tour card, and a chance to make it on the big stage. Not in his favor is a 42nd Reshuffle List position, which means the first reshuffle period is crucial for him to play well, improve his position, and thus have more playing opportunities for the first part of the 2015 portion of the season. |
| Carlos Sainz Jr - R | NA | NA | $45,000 | The good news for Sainz: he's got a 2014-2015 PGA Tour card. The bad news: he's next to last on the Reshuffle List, meaning he has little control over his schedule and is at the mercy of veterans for how many playing opportunities he gets. He's a talented guy - he tied for second at the Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr Pepper and finished three of the four Web.com Tour Finals events in the top 31 - but is ranked no better than 48th in any major statistical category and has his back up against the wall at the very start of the season. Play well early, however, and that all changes. |
