WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – Exactly 40 players left Orange County National on Sunday afternoon counting on at least eight guaranteed starts to begin the 2020 Korn Ferry Tour season. Two of them – co-medalists Braden Thornberry and Curtis Thompson – locked up full status.
Even those who failed to finish among the top 40 earned conditional membership, so the 12 players who got bumped to T-41 after Zach Zaback’s 72nd-hole birdie Sunday can still count on a good chunk of early starts to potentially improve their limited status. (Last year, Zac Blair and Patrick Sullivan each finished a shot outside the top 40 at Q-School; Blair played 24 events and finished 10th on the regular-season money list while Sullivan made 18 starts despite missing seven of his first eight cuts of the season.