Illini Men’s Golf in the Pros | June 17, 2024
June 17, 2024 | Men's Golf
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Illini Men's Golf in the Pros | June 17, 2024
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Fresh off a strong finish at the U.S. Open, Thomas Detry is back in action on the PGA Tour and teeing off for the first week in his career in the top 50 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
PGA TOUR
On the strength of a T4 finish last month at the PGA Championship and his T14 last weekend at the U.S. Open, Detry enters play at the Travelers Championship – held at TPC River Island in Cromwell, Connecticut – at No. 48 in the OWGR, a career-high mark. He also ranks No. 22 in the FedEx Cup standings, having made nine of 10 cuts since early March.
69-67 headed to the weekend.@TomDetry is in prime position @USOpenGolf. pic.twitter.com/ej1d7YX9qW
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 14, 2024
Detry, and fellow Illini and countryman Adrien Dumont de Chassart also closed the two-year qualification period in position to represent Belgium at the 2024 Paris Olympics, with the next step in the process coming later this month when the National Olympic Committees for each qualifying golfer confirm their spot. The men's stroke play competition is set for August 1-4.
The two-year qualification period for the men's golf competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has concluded with today's publication of the final men's Olympic Golf Rankings.
— Olympic Golf (@OlympicGolf) June 18, 2024
?? https://t.co/1jJ3oCSpfU#OlympicGolf | @Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/9e58lUH8sY
KORN FERRY TOUR
Detry was one of two Illini to make the cut last weekend at Pinehurst, along with former teammate Brian Campbell who finished T56 in his third U.S. Open and his first in nine years.
Campbell, No. 14 on the Korn Ferry Tour points list, now turns his attention to this week's Compliance Solutions Championship at the Jimmie Austin Golf Club in Norman, Okla.
DP WORLD TOUR
Matthis Besard is set to tee off at the KLM Open, his 14th DP World Tour start of the season, this week in the Netherlands. Besard is coming off a T30 finish last week at the European Open.
LIV GOLF LEAGUE
Thomas Pieters and his RangeGoats teammates are in action this week at The Grove in Nashville. In his last outing in Houston, Pieters finished tied for 24th.
Fairway wood magic ?? @Thomas_Pieters #LIVHouston pic.twitter.com/PjXPpWKLnY
— rangegoatsgc (@RangeGoatsGC) June 7, 2024
PGA TOUR AMERICAS
Recent graduate Piercen Hunt will make his professional debut, alongside former teammate Tommy Kuhl at The Beachlands Victoria Open at Uplands Golf Club in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Hunt advanced through Q School last week with a 10-under at Crown Isle in Courtenay, B.C. For Kuhl, it will be his seventh start of the PGA Tour Americas season.
Welcoming our final 9 @PGATOURAmericas members for the North American Swing ?? pic.twitter.com/5md7GNnVfQ
— PGA TOUR Americas (@PGATOURAmericas) June 15, 2024
