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Hunter Mahan has won six times on the PGA Tour, played 15 full seasons against the game’s best and is a seven-time Ryder/Presidents Cup player, but this was different.
“If feels almost weird to secure my [Tour] card,” he said on Tuesday from his home in Dallas.
Two days after finishing runner-up at the DAP Championship on the Web.com Tour to guarantee his return to the big leagues, Mahan was still processing the accomplishment.
For a player who was once considered one of the game’s best ball-strikers, an otherwise nondescript 67 on Sunday at Canterbury Golf Club in Beachwood, Ohio, felt every bit the tipping point after three woeful years.