There’s always a hard-luck story somewhere in pro golf. Davis Thompson, for example, was 71st on the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup points list after the regular-season finale and missed out on the postseason.
During the week at the Tour Championship in August, he jumped from No. 71 to No. 67 after rolling in a 48-foot birdie putt at 15 but at 18, his 46-foot birdie putt zoomed past the hole and then he missed the 6-foot comebacker. That bogey ended his season right then and there.
“It’s really disappointing, he said. “Sucks ending regular season this way.”
Two months later, and it’s Brandt Jobe playing the role of “first guy out.”
Jobe finished 73rd in the 2025 Charles Schwab Cup points standings and only the top 72 advance to the postseason. On the PGA Tour Champions, each dollar earned is worth one point in the standings and Jobe finished last week’s SAS Championship with 221,861 points, a mere 201 points behind Kirk Triplett. Had Jobe managed another $202 in earnings somewhere along the way, it’d be him in the postseason instead.
Jobe, 60, has two career Champions wins but none since 2019. His 2025 campaign shows just one top-10 and his next-best finish was a T-21. Over the course of a season, there were probably dozens of missed fairways here, missed putts there. Perhaps it was the double bogey after his tee shot went out of bounds on his fifth-to-last hole last Sunday that was the final nail in his coffin this season.
“Can I cuss?” asked Jobe to open his media availability Sunday after his final round at the SAS. Triplett had a double bogey himself, on his very last hole on Sunday, but still managed to edge out Jobe. It sounds like the way Jobe sees it, though, finishing 73rd wasn’t as much as about that final double bogey as it was the culmination of a frustrating season.
“I wasted three quarters of the season trying to figure out how to get my body to work again, then come here and play poorly,” he said. “So that doesn’t leave a good taste for the year, but that’s kind of it in a nutshell.”
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