Gove receives conditional status for 2024 PGA Champions Tour
CORRECTION: In the Dec. 13 edition of the Daily Bee, it was reported that Sandpoint's Jeff Gove had qualified for the 2024 PGA Champions Tour. Although we wish that to be true, only the top 5 golfers from the final qualifying stage qualified in full. Gove, who finished 12th, received conditional status for finishing amongst the top 20, which means he can compete in a Monday Qualifier (PGA Championship Tour Qualifying Tournament) without having to compete in a pre-qualifying round.
"I'm highly unlikely to get into any tournaments on that," Gove said in reference to his conditional status. "I basically have the same status as I did last year ... I am exempt through the pre-qualifying round, so I am a conditional member of the Champions Tour, but I am not going to get into any tournaments with the number I have. I was very close, but I did not technically achieve the goal I was shooting for."
In the most recent final qualifying stage, Gove needed to be near perfect in order to reach conditional status. Well, he was perfect and then some. Gove finished his final round six under par with six birdies (11 under overall), which moved him up 16 spots into a tie for 12th, good enough to qualify as a conditional member of the champions tour. He was just two strokes away from the top five golfers.
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