Hokie ClubFormer Virginia Tech golfer Brendon de Jonge enters this week’s Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank at the Willow Creek Country Club in Sandy, Utah, as the Nationwide Tour’s top earner in 2008.
De Jonge, who recorded his first career Nationwide victory earlier this summer in Rochester, N.Y., enters the Utah event with a total of $362,256 in winnings, $4,090 ahead of second place Jarrod Lyle. The top 25 players on the money list earn their PGA Tour cards for next season, a feat that de Jonge has all but guaranteed.
De Jonge leads the Nationwide Tour in scrambling and is tied for second in top 10 finishes this season. Following the Utah Championship, the Nationwide Tour, the PGA Tour’s top developmental tour, will finish the season with six more events. The Tour culminates on Nov. 6-9 at the Nationwide Tour Championship at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas, which boasts a $1 million purse.
More information on the Nationwide Tour and de Jonge, including photo galleries of his victory in Rochester, is available at http://www.pgatour.com/h/.