Web.com Tour Championships

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I know that few care about the AAA Tour, but there are some awfully good players on it and there is a lot at stake for them this week.

Top 25 get their PGA Tour Cards for next year.  With the leaders on #9, numbers 22-25 could move down and be replaced by #26 Doub Labelle II and several others.

26-40 (and anyone inside the top 25 looking to improve their position) are exempt into Q School finals.

Rookie Luke Guthrie, who turned pro in June and won almost 300 K in 3 Tour events before playing 10 Web.com events, has a chance to take the Web.com $ title (which comes with an invite to the Players).  Casey Martin is currently #1 but trailing Guthrie this week.  Russell Henley, who won as an amateur last year, has taken 2 of the last 3 web.com titles to move to #3 on the money list is also in great position.  Martin, 27, struggled during his first stint on Tour, but I expect the two rookies to have nice Tour careers.

Justin Bolli and Adam Hadwin who are having a good week to make a late charge at getting their cards or at least cracking the top 40 to get a second chance at Q school finals.

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I enjoy watching these guys.  Fun to see some different player and how they handle the pressure of graduating to the big tour.  Some good video of James Hahn

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Nice...even though he has lost his lead, Hahn will be playing with the big boys next year.  It looks like Morgan Hoffman might also get his card.  He didn`t have status at the beginning of the year, but is in good position in only his 13th event (plus a t29 at the US Open).

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some high lights being shown now http://www.pgatour.com/livepresser/#

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Wittenberg hung onto the $ list with Hoffman and Labelle moving up along with tourney winner Bolli to earn their cards.

I think Adam Hadwin has to be the most frustrated...he was sitting in the club house t2 needing Hahn to make a par or worse on 18 to get his card as #25...Hahn made a birdie to take 2nd and Hadwin dropped to #30 on the $ list with his t3.  Hadwin has won $460 K in only 7 PGA Tour starts, so I was hoping he would get his card.  Hopefully he will get it done at Q school.  I think Jim Herman owes Hahn a beer or two.

Camilo Benedetti was #25 going into the week, and made what seemed like a clutch birdie on 18 to finish t19 this week, but still came up 1 K short.

Lexi Thompson`s brother Nicolas is headed back to the PGA Tour along with several of the guys who have been in the #26 position before, so good for them.

Y-T-D statistics through: Web.com Tour Championship at TPC Craig Ranch Oct 28, 2012

RANK THIS WEEK	RANK LAST WEEK	PLAYER	EVENTS	MONEY	YTD VICTORIES
1	1	Casey Wittenberg	24	$433,453	2
2	2	Luke Guthrie	10	$410,593	2
3	3	Russell Henley	26	$400,116	2
4	4	Luke List	24	$363,206	1
5	13	James Hahn	24	$337,530	1
6	5	Shawn Stefani	24	$307,371	2
7	7	Robert Streb	24	$305,591	1
8	6	Ben Kohles	10	$303,977	2
9	44	Justin Bolli	24	$300,924	1
10	8	David Lingmerth	26	$287,148	1
11	11	Justin Hicks	25	$277,159
12	9	Paul Haley II	23	$263,841	1
13	10	Cameron Percy	24	$256,238
14	12	Andres Gonzales	23	$235,505	1
15	14	Scott Gardiner	25	$234,145
16	15	Lee Williams	25	$223,468	1
17	17	Darron Stiles	24	$213,031	1
18	21	Brad Fritsch	26	$212,168
19	31	Morgan Hoffmann	13	$207,540
20	16	Brian Stuard	26	$205,711
21	18	Andrew Svoboda	24	$203,717
22	20	Nicholas Thompson	26	$192,751
23	19	Alistair Presnell	26	$190,567
24	26	Doug LaBelle II	24	$186,320	1
25	22	Jim Herman	26	$182,001

Guthrie made almost 700 K since June when you count his PGA Tour $.  Wittenberg made over half a mil counting his t10 at the US Open