A quick look at the four players who qualified for this week’s Wells Fargo Championship: T.J. VOGEL (65) Age: 27 Hometown: Hollywood, Florida Alma mater: USC/Florida PGA TOUR starts: 7 Best TOUR finish: T16, 2018 Valspar Championship Notes: Vogel, winner of the 2012 U.S. Amateur Public Links, has now qualified for four events this season. He missed his first two cuts before making the first cut of his TOUR career at the Valspar. Vogel finished 10th on last season’s Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Order of Merit. CARTER JENKINS (65) Age: 22 Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina Alma mater: UNC-Greensboro/North Carolina PGA TOUR starts: 1 Best TOUR finish: MC, 2017 Wells Fargo Championship Notes: Jenkins also played in last year’s Wells Fargo, shooting 75-75 at Eagle Point to miss the cut. Jenkins won three consecutive Carolinas Amateurs (2013-15) and shot a course-record 59 at Wildwood Green Golf Club in 2012. He finished 55th on last year’s Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Order of Merit after finishing 18th the previous year. J.T. GRIFFIN (66) Age: 30 Hometown: Atlanta Alma mater: Georgia Tech PGA TOUR starts: Debut Notes: This will be Griffin’s first start in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event since missing the cut at the 2016 Rex Hospital Open on the Web.com Tour. He has competed on the Web.com Tour, PGA TOUR Canada and PGA TOUR Latinoamerica, missing the cut in 15 of 20 starts on those tours. Griffin was a two-time All-American at Georgia Tech, where he was teammates with Chesson Hadley and Cameron Tringale. GUILLERMO PEREIRA (67) Age: 23 Hometown: Santiago, Chile Alma mater: Texas Tech PGA TOUR starts: Debut Notes: Pereira will join countryman Joaquin Niemann, who finished sixth in his pro debut at the Valero Texas Open, in the field at Quail Hollow. Pereira ranked as high as fifth in the World Amateur Golf Ranking before turning pro after his freshman season at Texas Tech. He finished third on PGA TOUR Latinoamerica’s Order of Merit in 2015, then finished No. 64 on the Web.com Tour money list last year. He is 62nd on this season’s Web.com Tour money list. (Pereira grabbed the final spot in a playoff with Scott Strohmeyer, Jordan Niebrugge, D.J. Trahan and Nathan Stamey.) VALERO TEXAS OPEN QUALIFIERS T64. Joshua Creel, 69-72-73-76 MC. Curtis Reed, 74-73 MC. Paul McConnell, 71-78 MC. Troy Matteson, 74-83 THIS SEASON’S QUALIFIERS Qualifiers: 55 Made cut: 19 (34.5%) Top-10s: 3 (Scott Strohmeyer, T4 at Sanderson Farms; Trey Mullinax, T8 at Valspar; Julian Suri, T8 at Houston) Top-25s: 5 Most times qualified: T.J. Vogel (4)
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