Top-ranked Scot Robert MacIntyre has found his way to the potato state of Idaho to tee-up in this week’s Albertson Boise Open as he continues his quest for full 2021/22 PGA Tour membership.
MacIntyre has entered the KornFerry Tour event and is looking to gain his main Tour card by finishing top-25 in a three-event money list running for the final three secondary Tour events.
The Scot is among a host of former PGA Tour card-carrying members who finished last week’s regular PGA Tour season ranked outside of 125th posting on the FedEx Cup standings and now looking to regain full membership on golf’s biggest stage.
Robert MacIntyre has found his way to Idaho and America’s biggest producer of potatoes – Now wouldn’t Robert love to come up chips this week in Boise.
MacIntyre had needed to make last Sunday’s Wyndham Championship play-off to secure full PGA Tour membership but with his $655,329 in earnings placing him 150th and 25 spots shy of automatically joining the main Tour for the 2021/22 season.
The regular KornFerry Tour season, like the main Tour, also ended last week with top-25 on the money-list earning PGA Tour membership, and with 19 of them to be Tour rookies heading into the 2021/22 season.
MacIntyre’s goal join the main Tour will mean teeing-up also in next week’s Nationwide Children’s Championship in Columbus, Ohio and the September 2nd starting KornFerry Tour Championship in Indiana.
South African Christian Bezuidenhout is the world’s highest ranked in the Idaho field at No. 48 and with MacIntyre currently No. 51.
England’s Tom Lewis is also in this week’s field and looking to repeat his PGA Tour card efforts of 2019 when he won the three-event KornFerry final series but then lost his card last Sunday in ending his PGA Tour campaign in 159th place on the money list.
And it was Scotland’s Russell Knox who set a course record of 63 at this week’s host Hillcrest CC course when he contested the 2013 event.
Footnote – Idaho topped the ranking of leading potato producing states, with an annual production amount of about 134 million hundredweight of potatoes in 2020. Washington and Wisconsin were the next largest producers with production amounting to about 99 million cwt and 28 million cwt, respectively in that year.
Meantime –
Russell Knox and Martin Laird will fly the Scottish flag at the Northern Trust and the opening event also of the three-event PGA Tour’s Play-Off series on the Liberty National course in New Jersey
And just two Scots, Kingsbarns Links Daniel Young and Liam Johnston will tee-up in the European Tour’s Czech Masters.
