Cabo Collegiate Medalist to Get PGA TOUR Exemption for Valero Texas Open

SAN ANTONIO, TX — The Cabo Collegiate, an elite NCAA men’s golf match hosted by Arkansas, will be held at TPC San Antonio’s Oaks Class March 1-3 and Valero Texas Open up officers will provide an exemption to the medalist to compete in San Antonio’s PGA TOUR party, scheduled for March 29-April 4.

Thanks to intercontinental travel restrictions, the event, which incorporates 16 Division I groups, has been re-positioned from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico to San Antonio this yr.

“We’re excited to assistance golfing at the faculty degree and to have these kinds of an elite subject of pupil-athletes actively playing our match class in this article in San Antonio,” claimed Larson Segerdahl, Valero Texas Open Executive Director. “From our standpoint, it helps make good feeling to reward the talent and talent of the prime finisher in this year’s Cabo Collegiate at TPC San Antonio with an possibility to take a look at by themselves following thirty day period on the identical course in opposition to the world’s very best.”

“By granting this coveted exemption to our 2021 medalist, the Valero Texas Open up is proclaiming that college or university golfing is an crucial part of the activity,” explained Cabo Collegiate Founder Rodger Kline. “Our board and our lots of supporters in equally the U.S. and Mexico are so grateful for this prospect for just one of the pupil-athletes from our golfing household. Thank you, Valero and Valero Texas Open up.”

The top 3 players and 7 of the best 10 in the PGA TOUR College rankings will be competing up coming week. PGA TOUR University is a software developed to fortify and elevate the route to the PGA TOUR through the Korn Ferry Tour, Mackenzie Tour – PGA TOUR Canada and PGA TOUR Latinoamérica. This plan will reward elite collegiate perform with varying stages of enjoying entry to Excursions operated below the PGA TOUR umbrella though upholding the concepts and virtues of collegiate athletics.

The top a few players in the discipline are No. 1 Jon Pak, Florida Condition University, No. 2 Chun An Yu, Arizona State and No. 3 Austin Eckroat, Oklahoma Condition University.