Futile pursuit
Nick Flanagan
Nick Flanagan’s victory at last week’s BMW Charity Pro-Am not only was a reminder of the talent possessed by the 27-year-old Australian, but also of the inexplicable struggles of the men who preceded him in his path to the PGA Tour.
Flanagan earned his first PGA Tour card via the Nationwide Tour’s three-win promotion, an avenue that allows an instant call-up to any player who claims three Nationwide Tour titles in a season. He earned such a promotion in 2007, four years after winning the U.S. Amateur.
Flanagan lasted just one season on the PGA Tour – finishing 169th on the money list in 2008 – before returning to the Nationwide Tour. “For a few years there, I didn’t know if I wanted to do it,” Flanagan told Golfweek’s Jim McCabe at the Wells Fargo Championship. “But I was doing it because I didn’t really know how to do anything else. That’s not really ...
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