However, his last year on Tour, in 2009, he teed it up 17 times and missed the cut in all but one event.
34 in points thanks in large part to his victory earlier this year at the Lecom Suncoast Classic, where he was the last guy into the field and went on to win in a playoff.
His official KFT bio says he’s won 35 times alone on the Minor League Golf Tour while Monday Q Info’s Ryan French says that number is now 54.
Cootes made it through final qualifying via a playoff on his home course of Rolling Hills Country Club, where he was the men’s club champion at 13 years old.
The recent Alabama grad was an alternate coming out of local qualifying before getting into the final field in Hilton Head Island, S.C., and punching his U.S.
Gagne, who recently started working with instructor Todd Anderson, did win his Q-School for the Mackenzie Tour this year and as a result will compete on the U.S.-based Forme Tour this summer.
Johnson’s older brother, Bradley, died in a car accident in 2006, a year after Bradley, also a talented golfer, lost in the final of the U.S.
However, he returned to play in the final two events of his senior season before turning pro and medaling at the Atlanta final qualifier.
As told by Monday Q Info’s Ryan French, Springer and his wife, Emma, have a newborn daughter, Sage, who suffers from a genetic disorder called Trisomy 18.
He turned pro in late 2019 and proceeded to qualify and tie for 25th in his pro debut, at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Utah Championship.