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Ten chasers to watch with 6 events left in Korn Ferry Tour's race for top 30

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Tuesday, 08 August 2023 05:44

The PGA Tour begins its postseason this week in Memphis. As for the Korn Ferry Tour, it still has six events remaining on its schedule.

Gone starting this year is the separate Finals points list. Instead, the KFT points race will continue through the KFT Championship, with the top 30 at seasons end graduating to the PGA Tour. For each of the final three tournaments, there will be slightly elevated points up for grabs, most notable 600 points going to the winners compared to the normal 500. The field sizes, much like the FedExCup Playoffs, incrementally decrease, too, going from 144 for the Simmons Bank Open to 120 for the Nationwide Childrens Hospital Championship to 75 for the KFT finale at Victoria National.

Four players Ben Kohles, Rico Hoey, Ben Silverman and Pierceson Coody have already locked up their 2024 PGA Tour cards and spots in the PGA Tours new-look fall series, where they will be competing for spots in next years early signature events beginning with next months Fortinet Championship. Other names, such as the red-hot Adrien Dumont de Chassart (he still hasnt finished outside the top 10), Alejandro Tosti and Chandler Phillips, are knocking on the PGA Tours door, too.

But further down and around the bubble, the competition is tight. Chase Seiffert holds onto the No. 30 position entering this weeks Pinnacle Bank Championship in Omaha, Nebraska, but a number of players are right on his heels.

Here are 10 notables looking to make a run at the top 30 over the next month and a half:

Logan McAllister

Points rank: 31
Points back of No. 30: 9

Its been an up-and-down year for the Oklahoma product, who missed six of his first seven cuts and now is on a skid of five missed cuts in his last seven. However, a hot four-event stretch last spring, which included a playoff loss at the Lecom Suncoast Classic and two other top-10s, has a PGA Tour card very much within reach.

Spencer Levin

Points rank: 33
Points back of No. 30: 16

His emotional victory at the Veritex Bank Championship in mid-April boosted him to No. 11 in points, though hes slowly fallen since with just one top-20 finish in his last 13 starts. He continues to drive it extremely accurately, but hes well outside the top 100 in putting average and birdie average. He needs the flatstick to heat up just a tad these next six weeks.

Trace Crowe

Points rank: 36
Points back of No. 30: 57

Hes missed over half his cuts, but the Auburn grads playoff win at the NV5 Invitational last month moved him from No. 139 in points to inside the top 40.

Chris Gotterup

Points rank: 37
Points back of No. 30: 82

The former NCAA player of the year has been a cut-making machine, having missed just three in 18 starts. But he needs to contend more down the stretch as he owns just a pair of top-10s this season. Hes nearly top 10 in greens hit and he mashes it, ranking third in driving distance, though hes had some accuracy issues. A few more fairways moving forward and Gotterup could pop and win an event or two.

Frankie Capan III

Points rank: 38
Points back of No. 30: 85

After a slow start to the year, Capan caught fire toward the end of April, posting three top-6s over the past few months and qualifying for the U.S. Open in June. Hes cooled off in recent weeks, so he desperately needs a couple more of those top-6s to crack the top 30.

Ricky Castillo

Points rank: 39
Points back of No. 30: 86

After leading Florida to an NCAA title, Castillo won his KFT debut in a playoff and was T-11 the next week to sit No. 25 in points. Three straight MCs now entering this week, however, have seen him drop. The firepower is there for another special week to rocket Ricky right back up the standings.

Mac Meissner

Points rank: 40
Points back of No. 30: 123

If only you got extra points for shooting 59. Meissner has made a ton of cuts, but other than a playoff loss in Panama in February, hes not finished better than T-13. He must contend on a couple of occasions down the stretch to move inside the top 30.

Sam Saunders

Points rank: 48
Points back of No. 30: 186

At 36 years old, Saunders path back to the Tour requires him to find the form that he showed earlier this year when he lost in a playoff and posted two other top-10s in a five-start stretch. His T-25 last week in Utah snapped a run of five straight MCs.

Wilson Furr

Points rank: 50
Points back of No. 30: 190

Considering he almost thought his year was over after a bizarre penalty for taking a shuttle in April, Furr has done well to give himself a shot at a PGA Tour card. He went T-7, T-2 in two starts after that mishap, though hes got just two top-25s since.

Norman Xiong

Points rank: 58
Points back of No. 30: 300

A T-2 at the Visit Knoxville Open in late May has him on the radar, but the rest of his season has lacked the type of golf he needs to graduate. Hes missed seven of his past nine cuts, though a T-16 his last time out at NV5 has him with at least some momentum.

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