D.J. Trahan
Ghim making par on his final hole was difficult. What if he had to make birdie?
That wasn’t a “what if” scenario for Trahan, it was his situation. And the 38-year-old made it look easy.
On the 432-yard par-4 18th hole, Trahan painted the fairway off the tee and went pin-seeking with his approach, setting up the birdie he so desperately needed.
“When I finished I was not inside the top 25, so I was just going to go take a shower,” Trahan said in an interview with Golf Channel after his round, noting he tried not to look at the scoring. “Then I was told that players out on the course could effect my point total, so I stayed an watched.”
Trahan turned pro in 2003 and spent the 2004 season on the then-Nationwide Tour (now Korn Ferry). He made his PGA Tour in 2005 and won his first event at the Southern Farm Bureau Classic in 2006, an alternate event to the WGC-American Express Championship. His second Tour win came in 2008 at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
The Clemson graduate has held conditional status on Tour the last seven years, but next season will be the first time since 2012 he has held full status on Tour.
