Vogel Monday qualifies for seventh time this season
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Story: Sean Martin | PGATOUR.COM
T.J. Vogel's best finish of the season was a T16 at the Valspar Championship. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
T.J. Vogel has done it again. The former U.S. Amateur Public Links champion has Monday qualified for his seventh event of the season. A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier will give Vogel another opportunity to earn the non-member FedExCup points necessary to qualify for the Web.com Tour Finals.
This was the sixth time Vogel shot the low score in the qualifier.
Vogel has now surpassed the impressive Monday qualifying performance put together by Masters champion Patrick Reed, who qualified for six events in 2012. Austin Cook, winner of this season’s The RSM Classic, qualified for five events in the calendar years of 2014 and 2015.
Vogel has made the cut in half of his six starts this season, highlighted by a T16 at the Valspar Championship.
Another qualifier, Chase Seiffert, will play at Greenbrier after finishing T9 at the Travelers Championship. Seiffert won the Travelers’ qualifier with a 63. He closed the tournament with a 64 to crack the top 10 and earn another TOUR start. The same mindset that helped him have success in the qualifier also helped him shoot a strong final round.
He treated Sunday at TPC River Highlands like “my Monday qualifier for Greenbrier.
“I went out and tried to attack,” said Seiffert, who shot a front-nine 30 in the Travelers Championship’s final round.
Here’s a closer look at the players who will try to replicate Seiffert’s success this week.
T.J. VOGEL (65)
Age: 27
Hometown: Hollywood, Florida
Alma mater: USC/Florida
PGA TOUR starts: 10
Cuts made: 3
Best finish: T16, 2018 Valspar Championship
Notes: Vogel has made the cut in half of his six starts this season. In addition to the Valspar, he finished T59 at the Wells Fargo Championship and T66 at the AT&T Byron Nelson. He missed the cut in his most recent start, at the FedEx St. Jude Classic. Vogel has earned 51 non-member FedExCup points. He would rank 195th in the FedExCup standings if he were a TOUR member. He needs to stay in the top 200 to earn a spot in the Web.com Tour Finals, where he can play for a PGA TOUR card for next season.
WES HOMAN (66)
Age: 34
Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
Alma mater: SMU
PGA TOUR starts: 8
Cuts made: 3
Best finish: T36, 2015 Barbasol Championship
Notes: Homan, who graduated SMU in 2006 with a finance degree, won the 2014 Staal Foundation Open on the Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada.
LOGAN LAGODICH (66)
Hometown: Canton, Ohio
Alma mater: Marshall
PGA TOUR starts: Debut
Notes: Lagodich finished his playing career at Marshall in 2016. As a senior, his 74.4 scoring average was third-best on the team. He won the ODU/OBX Invitational during his sophomore season with a 6-under 207 total. He was co-champion of the Hummingbird Invitational in his junior season. His alma mater is located in Huntington, West Virginia, about five hours from the Greenbrier.
BLAKE TAYLOR (66)
Hometown: Atkinson, North Carolina
Current school: East Carolina
PGA TOUR starts: Debut
Notes: Taylor recently completed his sophomore season at East Carolina, where he was named to the American Athletic Conference’s All-Conference team. His 72.8 scoring average was second on the team. His best finish was T5 at the Stitch Intercollegiate, where he shot 72-65-70. Taylor, Lagodich and Homan beat Mark Silvers in a four-for-three playoff for the final spots at the Greenbrier.
TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS
T9. Chase Seiffert, 66-71-67-64
T61. James Driscoll, 66-72-70-71
MC. Andrew Svoboda, 74-69
MC. Rick Lamb, 69-77
THIS SEASON’S QUALIFIERS
Qualifiers: 71
Made cut: 24 (33.8%)
Top-10s: 4 (Scott Strohmeyer, T4 at Sanderson Farms; Trey Mullinax,T8 at Valspar; Julian Suri, T8 at Houston; Chase Seiffert, T9 at Travelers)
Top-25s: 6
Most times qualified: T.J. Vogel (7)
