{"id":410064,"date":"2026-01-15T03:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410064\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:31:07","slug":"canadas-roger-sloan-finishes-second-at-korn-ferry-tours-bahamas-golf-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410064\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Roger Sloan finishes second at Korn Ferry Tour’s Bahamas Golf Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada’s Roger Sloan finished second in the Bahamas Golf Classic on Wednesday after entering the Korn Ferry Tour’s season opener as an alternate in the field this past weekend.<\/p>\n

But this wasn’t just a traditional alternate-gets-in-the-field tale for a conditional member of a tour.<\/p>\n

Sloan’s usual caddie didn’t make the trip to the Bahamas, per Golf Channel.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sloan took the spot of Noah Goodman, who withdrew because of a hip injury. Goodman’s father, Jeff, his son\u2019s caddie, then let the field know he was available if anyone needed a looper.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m scrambling,\u201d Sloan told Golf Channel. \u201cI book a flight, I don\u2019t have a caddie, and I don\u2019t have a room. The room block is unavailable now, it\u2019s so last minute, so I don\u2019t even have a place to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sloan said his regular caddie put him in touch with Jeff Goodman, who also had a room for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gobbled that up,\u201d Sloan said. \u201cAre you kidding me? I\u2019m going to get a caddie and roommate all in the same go? Sign me up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old native of Merritt, B.C., said he met Jeff Goodman for dinner Saturday night, and then teed it up with his new caddie the next day.<\/p>\n

Sloan finished 24 under for three rounds, three strokes behind winner Taylor Dickson of the U.S.<\/p>\n

The Korn Ferry Tour is the feeder circuit for the PGA Tour. The top 20 at season’s end get PGA cards.<\/p>\n

Sloan has qualified for the PGA Tour three times through a Korn Ferry season. He struggled last year, finishing 131st in the Korn Ferry standings, thereby losing full membership for 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada’s Roger Sloan finished second in the Bahamas Golf Classic on Wednesday after entering the Korn Ferry Tour’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-410064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}