A gamble he took four years ago has paid off in the best way possible with Sydney’s Harrison Endycott playing his way onto the PGA Tour.
In what is golf’s most emotionally fraught final round, the culmination of the Korn Ferry Tour’s Pinnacle Bank Championship in Nebraska sees 25 PGA Tour cards distributed for the top 25 finishers on the points list at the end of the regular season.
Nineteenth at the start of the week, making the cut all but guaranteed Endycott’s PGA Tour promotion but it wasn’t until completing his final round of two-over 73 for a share of 55th that his top-25 finish was officially confirmed.
It marks an emotional and patient rise for the 26-year-old from Avondale Golf Club. He turned professional in 2017 and the following year deliberately took himself out of his comfort zone by playing the PGA Tour Latinoamerica circuit.
Endycott played in countries such as Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica and Brazil, recording three consecutive top-five finishes late in the year to finish 19th on the Order of Merit. He returned the following year and then advanced to the Korn Ferry Tour season for the first time in a season spread across 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
A five-stroke victory at the Huntsville Championship in May was his first as a professional and provided the foundation to cash in on that gamble he took four years earlier.
“I’m just so proud of him,” said his father Brian, who had made the trip from Australia to will his son over the line.
“Getting to where he is… As you can see we’re both emotional because he works so hard for this. Very, very hard for this.”
