Prior to this week, it’s likely you’ve never heard of Michael Sweeney, the 26-year-old Enfield, Connecticut, native who recently was living out of his car while chasing his professional golf dream.
But on Monday, Sweeney holed a 35-yard bunker shot to get through a 5-for-2 playoff and into his first PGA Tour-sanctioned event, the Korn Ferry Tour’s HomeTown Lenders Championship at The Ledges in Huntsville, Alabama. And Sweeney’s improbable journey was well told by Monday Q Info’s Ryan French before the story unsurprisingly went mainstream.
Well, the story just got even better.
After Thursday’s first round was washed out, Sweeney began his KFT debut on Friday afternoon with birdie.