Luke Clanton admits that he started to see the finish line too early as he inches ever closer to his PGA Tour card dream but he is determined to remain in the moment at the Cognizant Classic as he looks to make the cut which would secure his card.
Playing on the PGA Tour as an amateur, Clanton has made ten starts, has two runner-up finishes, a 5th place, tenth place and also made the cut on his US Open debut last year.
He needs to make the cut this week to secure the one point he needs to earn a PGA Tour card via the University rankings and he came within a whisker on his last start at the WM Phoenix Open where a sensational back nine charge saw him set up a birdie chance on 18 which he would miss to come up one shot shy.
“Yeah, it would mean the world for sure. To do it here, as well, would be amazing. An amazing journey I guess you could say.
“But again, I think I’m going to be boring with this answer yet again, but just to kind of stay focused on one shot at a time.
“I think at Waste Management I kind of got a little ahead of myself for the first day and had to do something pretty amazing the last eight holes. Again, I’m going to stay in the zone and stay with my game plan.”
It would be fitting if the Florida State University student sealed the deal this week at PGA National in Palm Beach just an hour from where he grew up.
Clanton estimates he has played the golf course up to 40 times in the past while he also competed in the Junior Honda Classic and various high school events so there would be no better place for the 21-year-old to achieve his dream this week.
“I mean, I’ve watched this event growing up since I was probably nine or ten years old. Again, it would be a perfect story.
“But we don’t know if it’s my time yet. My time will come, and we don’t know if it’s this week or next week or whenever it will be. I’m going to trust in Lord and know that it’s golf; it’s going to go my way or not go my way.
“I would love for it to be this week with all the friends and family coming up, but I’m just going to focus on one shot at a time.”
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