Tano Goya is making the most of just his third start on the PGA Tour in nearly a decade, despite having two minutes notice and teeing off in his tennis shoes.
The Argentinian earned his first Tour card by finishing in the top 50 at the end of the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour season. That exemption status put him toward the bottom of the pecking order at the start of the new Tour season last month, and in the case of this week’s Shriners Children’s Open, on the alternate list.
That was, until Thursday morning.
“It was weird because I had the feeling that I was going to get in somehow,” Goya said Thursday, following a 3-under 68 at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas.