When you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
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/Wes Bryan: Trick Shot Artist A Year Ago, Battlefield Promotion Today
/Adam Stanley at PGATour.com has all the details on Wesley Bryan's incredible 2016 Web.com Tour season concluding with a Digital Ally Open win that is his third of 2016.
That sets him up for a battlefield promotion which gets him in next week's John Deere Classic and the Wyndham, if he chooses. Then it's off to the Web.com Tour playoffs if he chooses, or he can just prepare for putting the tour card he'd already secured to use in September.
His third win of the season came after he hit, what he called, the shot of his life, on the par-3 17th. After he, J.T. Poston and Grayson Murray all made birdies on the par-4 18th, they retreated to the 17th for what turned out to be the final time. Murray missed his chip long, and Poston left his putt short. That set the stage for Bryan, who had left himself about 2 feet for the win.
There was never a doubt.
The promotion no longer carries the weight it once did due to the wraparound schedule change that has the Web.com Tour season starting too late for a three-time winner to get elevated to the big tour for enough starts. However Bryan's accomplishment is inching him up the world ranking and will remind folks of his rise from viral video trick shot artist (with brother and sometimes caddy George), to second stage Web.com Tour school graduate last year, to holding a PGA Tour card in such a short time. Well done Wesley!
Wesley's full bag from his third win, and his Twitter account.
The winning putt at the Digital Ally:
Wesley Bryan birdies the second playoff hole, his third win of the season. pic.twitter.com/ht7rAFvKK9
— Web.com Tour (@WebDotComTour) August 7, 2016
Video: 5-Year-Old Tommy Morrissey's Swing Impersonations
/Hole-in-One, Double In Same Round Files: Mason Nome Edition
/Congrats to University of Texas golf commit Mason Nome (2019), who made an ace and double eagle in the same round. It was John Wooden's feat and that of only a handful of others many decades ago.
Nome posted this scorecard of the round, which also featured a double bogey just a hole after teh two on a par-5. The Golf Gods waste little time setting us straight!
Mason also posted a tremendous trick shot many weeks ago that I hadn't seen...
Video: The Three-Putt One-Putt
/Video: Youthful (16 Months) Passion For The Game!
/Video: 21 And Already Generating Incredible Clubhead Speed
/Video: The Best (Fake) Ty Webb Impersonation Ever
/So many nice touches here, the vertical phone framing, the lack of any jarring cuts and the attempt to sell the shot with shock only after the last putt drops in an apparently 12-inch deep cup.
Still, in an odd way I admire the craftsmanship of the fakeness...
Video: Golf Juggling Backflip, Beach Edition
/Bryan Bro Wesley Within One Web.com Win Of PGA Tour
/Wesley Bryan did it with Hashtag Chad Coleman on the bag in Mexico, beating our old friend Brad Fritsch in a showdown of the Web.com's two best players this year.
Royce Thompson on the trick shot master's second win of 2016, setting him up for a battlefield promotion with one more.
A.J. Voepel on a Callaway social media challenge that turned into a looping gig while Bryan brother George was off pursuing his own golf career.
Six, Schmix: Two-Year-Old With Amazing Clubhead Speed
/Forget the amazing 6-year-olds, look at the clubhead speed this 2-year-old is generating.
**Discussed today on Morning Drive.