Jeff Overton is a Beast

We told you of how Jeff Overton was playing the last couple of events of the season fresh off of an apendectomy.  And that he was looking to keep his Tour card in the process.  The combination should have kept him from getting his Tour card.  But, it didn't.  With a tie for 21st at the Children's Miracle Network Classic, Overton finished on 118 and will retain his Tour card with ease.

He sank a 35-footer for birdie on the par-4 16th, then got up-and-down from a tricky bunker behind the 18th green – the same one Davis Love III saved par from to win by a shot over Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey – to shoot 3-under 69 and finish the week tied for 21st. That earned Overton two checks – a prize of $49,680, and a refund of $3,500 for his paid entry to the finals of PGA Tour Q-School, a place that several players before him have likened to an emergency appendectomy.

Overton, 25, finished the season at No. 118 on the money list, seemingly light years away from the position he held Thursday morning, right on the cutline at No. 125. He had figured before the tournament that he needed to get to “around $869,000” to keep his card, but he earned more than $890,000.

Congrats to Overton on this achievement!  A good story for the game, in addition to Erik Compton's continuing quest through Q-school.