American tour skilled Andy Ogletree chalked up the primary skilled victory of his profession after successful the Asian Tour’s Worldwide Collection Egypt at Madinaty Golf Membership.
The 24-year-old 2019 US Beginner champion is presently suspended from the PGA Tour after taking part in within the LIV Golf occasion held in London in June. Though he was not a member of the PGA Tour when he performed at Centurion – the place he completed final and gained ¢120,000 – Ogletree was issued with a six-month ban from coming into future PGA Tour occasions.
Having since been dropped by LIV Golf following the signing of extra high-profile gamers, the previous Georgia Tech graduate was left with nowhere to play, so joined the Asian Tour, which has an affiliation with LIV Golf, collaborating in occasions in Singapore, Korea and Morocco, earlier than lastly discovering success in Egypt.
Ogletree, who shot a final-round 62 to beat fellow LIV participant Bernd Wiesberger by 4 pictures, stated: “That is wonderful, simply unbelievable. I’ve all the time been an enormous fan of match play, and that’s sort of what it got here to ultimately; it was principally a two-horse race. I simply tried to maintain matching what Bernd was doing, and thankfully I saved making a whole lot of putts.”
Having missed out on successful his PGA Tour card eventually yr’s Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying College, Ogletree has no regrets about taking over LIV Golf’s provide earlier within the yr.
“It gave me someplace to play. It gave me the chance to get into the Asian Tour as nicely,” he stated. “My massive factor was I simply needed a assured place to play. I didn’t really feel I used to be getting higher taking part in Monday qualifiers for PGA Tour occasions or taking part in the mini excursions. What introduced itself was LIV. It positively helped that I used to be capable of make some cash and was capable of fund what I used to be doing for the remainder of the yr.”
The Mississippi-born participant now has the choice of taking part in extra Asian Tour occasions or returning to the US to attempt to Monday qualify for PGA Tour occasions as soon as his suspension ends subsequent month.
