Norman Xiong started the week as first alternate for the Sony Open and one among over a dozen Korn Ferry Tour graduates shut out of the primary non-signature occasion of the 12 months.

He’s now punched his ticket.

Xiong earned the fourth and closing spot within the Sony area through a Monday qualifier that was stretched into Tuesday due to heavy rain and flooding. It took Xiong seven holes to eradicate Julian Suri after each gamers shot 5-under 67 and acquired right into a 7-for-2 playoff at Kapolei Golf Course about 40 minutes west of Honolulu.

Martin Coach and Parker Coody, who like Xiong additionally attended the PGA Tour’s two-day rookie orientation final weekend, every shot 6-under 66 to earn the primary two Sony tickets outright. Robert Streb birdied the primary playoff gap and likewise will play at Waialae beginning Thursday.

Yuki Moriyama, Ryan McCormick, John Oda and Patrick Flavin joined Suri in lacking out within the playoff.

Coach is a 32-year-old French native who gained the 2019 Puerto Rico Open and is taking part in off previous champion standing this 12 months. Coody joins his twin brother, Pierceson, as a first-year Tour professional after each competed on the Korn Ferry Tour final season. Parker Coody has made three earlier Tour begins, together with final spring’s Honda Traditional, which he Monday’d into.

Streb, 36, is a veteran of 300 profession Tour begins. He’s gained twice, most just lately on the 2020 RSM Traditional, and completed runner-up 3 times.

Xiong was the 2018 Haskins Award winner because the NCAA participant of the 12 months when he was a sophomore at Oregon. Now 25, Xiong gained final season on the KFT, although he’s made simply 2 of 11 profession PGA Tour cuts.

After Xiong acquired via the open qualifier, Nicholas Lindheim moved as much as first alternate. Nonetheless, Lindheim since had withdrawn, that means Joe Highsmith is now subsequent up. He’s adopted by Patrick Fishburn, Mac Meissner and Tom Whitney.

This 12 months’s Sony Open now has 17 of the 30 KFT grads from a season in the past teeing it up at Waialae, although simply 14 of them acquired in on their quantity. Two – Jimmy Stanger and Josh Teater – have been designated sponsor invitations.