American tour skilled Andy Ogletree chalked up the primary skilled victory of his profession after successful the Asian Tour’s Worldwide Sequence Egypt at Madinaty Golf Membership.
The 24-year-old 2019 US Newbie champion is presently suspended from the PGA Tour after enjoying within the LIV Golf occasion held in London in June. Though he was not a member of the PGA Tour when he performed at Centurion – the place he completed final and gained ¢120,000 – Ogletree was issued with a six-month ban from getting into future PGA Tour occasions.
Having since been dropped by LIV Golf following the signing of extra high-profile gamers, the previous Georgia Tech graduate was left with nowhere to play, so joined the Asian Tour, which has an affiliation with LIV Golf, collaborating in occasions in Singapore, Korea and Morocco, earlier than lastly discovering success in Egypt.
Ogletree, who shot a final-round 62 to beat fellow LIV participant Bernd Wiesberger by 4 photographs, stated: “That is superb, simply unimaginable. I’ve at all times been an enormous fan of match play, and that’s type of what it got here to in the long run; it was principally a two-horse race. I simply tried to maintain matching what Bernd was doing, and thankfully I stored making loads of putts.”
Having missed out on successful his PGA Tour card ultimately 12 months’s Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Faculty, Ogletree has no regrets about taking on LIV Golf’s supply earlier within the 12 months.
“It gave me someplace to play. It gave me the chance to get into the Asian Tour as nicely,” he stated. “My large factor was I simply wished a assured place to play. I didn’t really feel I used to be getting higher enjoying Monday qualifiers for PGA Tour occasions or enjoying the mini excursions. What introduced itself was LIV. It undoubtedly helped that I used to be in a position to make some cash and was in a position to fund what I used to be doing for the remainder of the 12 months.”
The Mississippi-born participant now has the choice of enjoying extra Asian Tour occasions or returning to the US to try to Monday qualify for PGA Tour occasions as soon as his suspension ends subsequent month.
LIV reject Ogletree wins Asian Tour occasion in Egypt
