The Korn Ferry Tour Championship, which concludes the season, determines 30 golfers who will be promoted to the PGA Tour in 2024. The 16 spots were already taken, so the remaining 14 places had to be fought for.
Shad Tuten, who was 29th in the Korn Ferry Tour Points List, was well placed to take one of these spots heading into the 72 hole, no cut, finale. He posted scores of 69, 73 and 69 on the first three rounds to finish just outside the top 10.
Tuten, however, signed for a score of 76 on Sunday. This included a penalty of two shots at the Victoria National Golf Club, located in Newburgh (Indiana).
According to Golf Channel
Tuten was informed by a rules official upon arriving at the scoring area that he had been improperly applying the rule of lift, clean and place in the 15th fairway. Tuten lifted his ball and cleaned it before placing it. However, the ball rolled forward. Jim Duncan, KFT’s Vice President of Competition and Administration, explained that Tuten should have tried to place the ball in the same spot as his previous placement. If the ball moved, he would then be able to place it near the point. Tuten, on the other hand, did not take this second step.
Duncan stated that when the player did not replace the ball on the exact same spot, he received two shots.
Tuten slipped from No. Tuten dropped from No. The 2024 PGA Tour will be a 32-player season.
Tuten has two months to wait before he can try to redeem himself. The players who placed Nos. The top 30 players on the KFT list will receive an exemption to the final stage of PGA Tour Q School, where they can earn their PGA Tour cards for 2024. The final stage will be held from December 14-17, at TPC Sawgrass Dye’s Valley Course and Sawgrass Country Club.
