“Man, I can’t wait!”
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Andrew “Beef” Johnston is headed to the PGA Tour.
“It’s big. I would have liked to have been a few shots better and been in the last group now coming up there, but so be it”, Johnston said.
The popular Londoner finished fourth at the Albertsons Boise Open in Idaho – the second of four Web.com Tour Finals events – to guarantee a top-25 finish in the rankings to book a place on the main tour.
The 24-year-old former Purdue player was 40th on the Web.com Tour regular-season money list. That finish, coupled with a T-28 in the first of the four-event series, moved Johnston to sixth on the Finals money list, and guaranteed him a spot on the PGA Tour for the 2016-17 season that starts at next month’s Safeway Open.
Johnston, with his bushy beard and ever present smile, won admirers around the world for the way he gleefully interacted with the galleries while finishing eighth in The Open at Royal Troon in July. He followed that with a top-10 finish in the BMW PGA Championship, then qualified for the U.S. Open.
Murray and Johnston also secured their PGA Tour cards.
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“I’m going to wait and have a look at the schedule and kind of weigh it up and try to try get that schedule right for next year with Europe and America”, Johnston said. “I was just a bit more dialed in and I think just played slightly better”. Yeah, I think there will be a Coke or a Fanta or something like that. “Nah, there are going to be a few beers, man”.
