Monday qualifiers: Farmers Insurance Open

John Mallinger, Jack Maguire and Derek Barron shot 66 on Monday to share medalist honors in the qualifier for the Farmers Insurance Open. Tyler Torano grabbed the fourth and final spot in this week’s PGA TOUR event with a 5-under 67 at El Camino Country Club in Oceanside, California. Mallinger, 38, will be making his first PGA TOUR start since withdrawing from the second round of the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in October 2015. The Long Beach State alum has two runners-up and seven third-place finishes in 186 career PGA TOUR starts. He lost a playoff to Bo Van Pelt at the 2009 U.S. Bank Championship in Milwaukee and finished two shots behind Mark Wilson at the 2012 CareerBuilder Challenge. He twice finished third at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (2007, ’08) and was third at the 2009 PLAYERS Championship. He finished in the top 70 in the FedExCup standings in three consecutive seasons (2007-09). Mallinger played with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers at last year’s BMW Charity Pro-Am on the Web.com Tour. The native of nearby Escondido, California, had surgery on his left shoulder in 2013 and played the 2013-14 season on a medical extension. He was unable to regain his status, and has made just two PGA TOUR starts since 2014. Last year, he made the cut in just one of eight starts on the Web.com Tour. Maguire, 23, made the cut at the 2015 U.S. Open (T58) as an amateur and played the past two seasons on the Web.com Tour. He has conditional status on that circuit after finishing 93rd on the money list. He also finished T42 at last year’s U.S. Open, his best finish in four career PGA TOUR starts. Barron, 32, made his only previous PGA TOUR start at last year’s U.S. Open, missing the cut with rounds of 70-83. He finished 38th on the Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada’s money list last season, posting two top-10 finishes in nine starts. Tyler Torano, 26, is an alumnus of Loyola Marymount and was born in nearby Chula Vista. He will be making his PGA TOUR debut. He has made 24 starts on PGA TOUR Latinoamerica over the past two years, posting one top-10 and missing 16 cuts. Sony Open in Hawaii qualifiers T67. John Oda, 68-70-69-71 T69. Steve Allan, 68-70-72-69 MC. Ricky Barnes, 72-69 MC. Gunn Yang, 74-71 2017-18 Monday qualifiers Qualifiers: 24 Made cut: 9 Top-10s: 1 (Scott Strohmeyer, T4 at Sanderson Farms) Top-25s: 1

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