Where Are They Now? (2012-05-02)

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Long-running event has hosted some of the greats of the game-

Myrtle Beach, S.C. - May 1, 2012 - For the past 20 years, the NGA Pro Golf Tour has played under the tagline of “Where Tomorrow’s PGA Champions Are Playing Today!” While the slogan may seem a bit lavish to those unfamiliar with the No. 3 tour in the country, one look a the Tour’s alumni list proves the slogan is a perfect fit.

Bubba Watson, the 2012 Masters champion; Keegan Bradley, the 2011 PGA Championship winner; Jim Furyk, the 2010 PGA Tour Player of the Year and 2003 U.S. Open champion; Stewart Cink, the 2009 British Open champion; Lucas Glover, a U.S. Open champion; Zach Johnson, the 2007 Masters champion; Shaun Micheel, the 2003 PGA Championship winner; Ben Curtis, the 2003 British Open champion; Lee Janzen, a two-time U.S. Open champion; John Daly, a British Open and PGA Championship winner; Tom Lehman, a British Open winner; David Toms, a PGA Championship winner, Chad Campbell, the 2003 Tour Championship winner; Michael Thompson, the 2010 NGA Player of the Year and current PGA Tour member; and 2011 PGA winners Sean O'Hair, Scott Piercy, Scott Stallings, Mark Wilson and Gary Woodland all cut their teeth on the NGA Tour before excelling on the world’s top tour.  

NGA alum Hudson Swafford wins Stadion(2012-05-02)

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Final Round Update: NGA’ers sweep podium in Athens-

Nationwide Tour: Athens, Ga. - Hudson Swafford, a 2011-12 Bridgestone Winter Series competitor, shot a 9-under 62 in the final round of the Stadion Classic at UGA to edge BWS winner Luke List and former NGA Player of the Year Lee Janzen by one shot for his first Nationwide victory.

Swafford finished with rounds of 66-70-69-62 for a 17-under 267 total. List and Janzen shot 6-under 65s in the final round to finish at 16-under par and tied for second. Swafford’s victory was the sixth victory by NGA Tour alums on the Nationwide Tour in 2012.

Former NGA Tour member Jim Herman shot a 2-under 69 at the University of Georgia Golf Club on Sunday to finish in sixth at 13-under par, while former Kandy Waters Memorial Classic winner Justin Bolli finished 12 under and tied for seventh with NGA alum Paul Claxton.

Fellow NGA Tour winner Bubba Dickerson shot a 4-under 67 in the final round to move into a tie for 13^th with alum David May at 11-under par. NGA’ers Andrew Svoboda, Aron Price and Cliff Kresge, along with 2011 NGA Tour member Shawn Stefani, finished T16 at 10-under par.  

BWS champion Luke List wins SGC(2012-04-25)

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Current member Robert Streb finishes T4 in NW action-

Nationwide Tour: Valdosta, Ga. - Former NGA Pro Golf Tour member and Bridgestone Winter Series winner Luke List shot a 4-under 68 in the final round of the Nationwide Tour’s South Georgia Classic to finish with a 16-under 272 total and earn his first victory on the No. 2 tour.

 List, who won the BWS event at Deer Island CC in 2009, carded back-to-back birdies to start the day but ran into a lull after the stout start, making nine pars and a bogey over the next 10 holes. However, the former Vanderbilt star rallied with an eagle on No. 13 and a birdie on No. 16 to pull away from NGA vet Brian Stuard and claim his first Nationwide Tour victory in his 72^nd start.

Stuard, who has 54 starts on the NGA Tour, carded one of the lower rounds on Sunday. The former Oakland University golfer traversed Kinderlou Forest without a bogey and rattled off six birdies to finish with a 66 and move into second at 14-under par. Stuard’s runner-up effort was his best effort on the Nationwide Tour in 74 starts. 

Keegan Bradley at the Zurich: Winning on NGA start of PGA Championship(2012-04-25)

Keegan Bradley at the Zurich: Winning on NGA start of PGA Championship

MORE INTERVIEWS: Zurich Classic of New Orleans transcript archive

COLIN MURRAY: Keegan, thanks for joining us here in the Interview Room at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

Couple of close calls this year with playoff runner up finish at Northern Trust then a T-4 a couple weeks ago at Houston. Just start off talking a little bit about your year to date and we'll go from there and talk about this week and then open it up to questions.

KEEGAN BRADLEY: New Orleans is one of my favorite events of the year. I absolutely coming here, I love the golf course, I love the people. It's a first class event so it's -- I'm so glad to be here and with Zurich, and it's a week I look forward to start the year.

COLIN MURRAY: First start since a T-27 at the Masters. Just talk about where your game is right now and expectations for the week.

KEEGAN BRADLEY: My game is in a very good place. Once again, I will you ever the golf course so I really look forward to playing this weekend, this week and I feel very good and the course is in as good a shape as it could possibly imagine so I know all the players are very excited.

COLIN MURRAY: Thank you. Go ahead and open it up for questions.

Q. Keegan, can you just go through the steps in your career that got you to the PGA Championship, what were the key elements of getting there?

KEEGAN BRADLEY: You know, it started out, it started at St. John's and kind of got passed over a little bit. I've always been playing with a clip on my shoulder.

I was able to luckily play a year on the Hooters Tour where at one point I was down to $1,200 in my bank account. I ended up winning that week and I think that that was the start of the PGA Championship.

I kind of from then -- from there forward I've really been improving and playing better and I'm work withing Jim McLean and Rotella and people that help me, too.

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