by boulder3m on Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:25 am
BigJohn-This also helps him on what the tour calls the "reshuffle," which moves the players who qualified through the Q School and Nationwide Tour up and down a list according to their success or failure in the events prior to the reshuffle. At this point McGirt would reshuffle UP 23 spots in the order-which is the order of acceptance into the nest tournamnets they wish to play. For example, William was an alternate in the La Quinta event and got in very late. In the case of the reshuffle, he would have been in with no worries. He also is building his earnings for the Tour Championship and PGA, both of which are determined by earnings since the last event. Since he did so well last Fall and already this Winter, his earnings since the last of those two events should be considerable. For the players at the top money comes easily, since they are in the World Golf Championship events, the majors, and all of the invitationals (which are short field events). William is slowly but surely working himself up the list for those events. As an example, he is T-384th on the World Golf Rankings list (with Jeff Maggert). We know his is much better than that, but in order to move up he will need to get into the events that help in the rankings. Jeff Maggert had two great finishes in the last two weeks, but he was WAY down the list before the season started. As I have mentioned before, he is moving along just as if he were climbing stairs-one step at a time. In his two events this year he has put himself in great positions. This past week he got very unlucky to be at LaQuinta when the big winds hit-AND he was at a critical point on the golf course getting ready to play back to back par fives on which he had a real chance to make a move. It was just bad luck. Still, he finished the tournament with birdies on #17 and #18 to earn a nice check. Torry Pines this week is the longest course on tour, and it will be interesting to see how he handles it. Everyone with ties to Wofford should be very proud of the "Terrrier on Tour."