'Beef' earns PGA Tour card for next season

Andrew Johnston, the jovial Englishman with the unplayable-lie beard, the unflappable demeanor and - oh, yes, a pretty decent game - will have a PGA Tour card for next season.

Johnston closed with a 68 on Sunday in the Albertsons Boise Open, good for a fourth-place finish and sufficient earnings in the Web.com Tour Finals to secure his card.

Asked immediately after his round what he planned to do to celebrate, he jokingly replied "A few sodas. I think maybe a Coke and Fanta, something like that," before allowing that beer was actually going to be his beverage of choice.

"Very happy to come over [to the U.S.] and get what I was trying to do," he said. "I tried my best and that's what I did,…