Monday qualifiers: Wyndham Championship

Former major winner Y.E. Yang may have upset Tiger Woods at the 2009 PGA Championship, but now he must play Monday qualifiers to earn his way into PGA TOUR events. Yang won Monday’s qualifier for the Wyndham Championship with a 6-under 65 at Bermuda Run Country Club’s East Course in Advance, North Carolina. It was the third time this season that Yang qualified for an event, tied with Chase Seiffert and Ted Purdy for the most successful attempts in 2016-17. Yang is ranked 217th in the FedExCup as he prepares for the Wyndham, the final event before the FedExCup Playoffs. The Wyndham Championship begins Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. Yang also qualified for this season’s AT&T Byron Nelson and The Greenbrier Classic, missing the cut in both. He has made the cut in half of his eight starts this season, highlighted by a T27 at the Sony Open in Hawaii. Jason Widener of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, shot 66 to finish second on Monday. Widener, 46, grew up in Greensboro and is a 1989 graduate of Northwest Guilord High School. He was one of the best junior golfers to come out of North Carolina and was a three-time All-ACC selection at Duke. “Back in my younger days, I thought I’d be playing in a lot of these things,â€� Widener told the Winston-Salem Journal. He is now a teaching pro at the Duke University Golf Course. This will be his PGA TOUR debut. The final two spots into the Wyndham Championship went to Purdy, winner of the 2005 AT&T Byron Nelson, and Brad Miller. Purdy, 43, also qualified for the Safeway Open and Valero Texas Open. He has missed the cut in all five starts this season. Miller, of Timonium, Maryland, also Monday qualified for the 2015 Wyndham Championship, his only other PGA TOUR start. Miller, 27, shot 73-69 and missed the cut. He is a University of Richmond alum. 2016-17 Monday qualifiers Qualifiers: 91 Made cut: 26 (28.6 percent) Top-25s: 4 (4.4 percent) Top-10s: 0 Top finishes this season T11. Keith Mitchell, Valspar Championship T17. Oscar Fraustro, OHL Classic at Mayakoba T17. J.T. Poston, Genesis Open T23. Andres Gonzales, Shell Houston Open Barracuda Championship qualifiers* T65. Chase Seiffert, 6-5-3-(-1) MC. a-Ben Corfee, 7-0 MC. Tyler Raber, 2-(-4) MC. Matt Bettencourt, (-4)-(-5) * — Modified Stableford scoring

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