Ellington Qualifier Medalist Makes Travelers Championship Top 10

CROMWELL, CT — For the fourth time in his golfing career, Chase Seiffert qualified for a PGA TOUR event on the Monday prior to the event, and for the fourth time, he made the 36-hole cut to earn a paycheck. This week's result, however, far exceeded any of his three previous efforts.

After earning one of four spots in the Travelers Championship for the second straight year by breaking the course record at Ellington Ridge Country Club with a 9-under par 63 Monday, the 26-year-old from Panama City, Fla. started off the tournament with a 4-under 66 on Thursday. He dropped a stroke Friday with a 1-over 71, but made the cut at 3-under.

A 67 on Saturday put him in position to surpass his best TOUR finish, a tie for 43rd at last year's event in Cromwell. And surpass it he did, making five birdies and an eagle Sunday to climb into a tie for second at one point. A bogey at 17, where he missed the green with his approach shot and then failed to convert a nine-foot par putt, dropped him into a tie for ninth.

Seiffert's Top 10 performance of 12-under par 268 earned him a career-high $189,000, eclipsing his previous high paycheck of $19,870. He also gained an exemption into A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier, a PGA TOUR event in early July in West Virginia.

A two-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference player at Florida State University, Seiffert has watched a pair of former Seminole teammates also experience recent success in the Northeast. Brooks Koepka won his second straight U.S. Open last week on Long Island, and Daniel Berger tied for the lead after 72 holes at the 2017 Travelers, losing in a playoff to Jordan Spieth.

Photo and video credit: Tim Jensen

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