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Min Woo Lee and Aaron Baddeley are among four Australian golfers chasing 25 cards for the 2022-23 PGA Tour at the three-event Korn Ferry Tour Finals.
Three of Australia's brightest golfing talents and one of the country's most accomplished stars will fight for the right to play on the PGA Tour next season when the Korn Ferry Tour Finals start on Thursday.
Just days after countryman Harrison Endycott secured his PGA Tour promotion by finishing the regular season in the top 25 on the points list, 25 more cards will be distributed following the three-event Korn Ferry Tour Finals.
It begins this week with the Albertsons Boise Open in Idaho where Lucas Herbert all but wrapped up a PGA Tour card last year by earning a share of fourth spot.
Now Min Woo Lee, Jason Scrivener, Anthony Quayle and two-time Australian Open champion Aaron Baddeley take their shot, but coming at it from very different directions.
Lee, currently ranked 68th in the world, and Scrivener, ranked 178th, qualified for the Finals as non-members to have equalled or surpassed No.200 on the FedExCup playoffs and eligibility points list.
Lee's best PGA Tour finish in 2022 was a tie for 14th at the Masters in April while Scrivener's points came largely from his top-20 result at the co-sanctioned Scottish Open.
Quayle, the Queensland PGA champion in January, endured a rollercoaster week before it was confirmed last Friday that his top-15 finish at the British Open at St Andrews would be enough to earn the equivalent points to finish between 126-200 on the points list for both members and non-members.
It is a somewhat different scenario for Baddeley but with the same prize to play for.
A four-time winner on the PGA TOUR, the 41-year-old finished 196th in the FedExCup standings to sneak into the category who qualify for the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, a return to the stage where he finished 61st a year ago.
Like Endycott, it presents a pathway to the PGA Tour that started for all on the PGA Tour of Australasia.
"Harrison was a 21-year-old rookie on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia when he lost to Simon Hawkes in a playoff at the 2018 Vic Open at Thirteenth Beach," said PGA of Australia CEO Gavin Kirkman.
"He has been on the path to a PGA Tour card ever since, going on to spend two years on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica circuit before advancing to the Korn Ferry Tour."
