So often recently, the updates have been built around an icon’s unprecedented crash in the world ranking. But here’s a story about an unheralded player’s stunning ascension, even though he’s doing it with the proverbial one hand tied behind his back.
Austin Cook, you see, is without status on the PGA Tour. Heck, his status on the Web.com Tour is laughable. But yet, through a remarkable diligence and uncanny ability to play with his back against the wall, the 24-year-old former Arkansas standout is doing special things on the PGA Tour.
Having successfully gotten through a Monday qualifier four times in five tries this season (“Most guys would die to have that Monday record,” he said), Cook has earned $487,048 in prize money.