BYU golfer Kelton Hirsch is not eligible to claim the $20,000 first prize in the Siegfried & Jensen Utah Open and former PGA Tour player Dean Wilson doesn't need the money.
That helps explain why each of them played so well in Saturday's second round at Riverside Country Club in Provo.
Hirsch moved into the lead with a 7-under-par 65, good for a 12-under total and a two-stroke advantage over New Mexico pro Samuel Saunders and Blake Cannon, a former Colorado State golfer who has played PGA Tour Latino America in 2019.
Hirsch can give the BYU golf program a second Utah Open win in three years, after Patrick Fishburn blitzed the field in 2017.