{"id":57684,"date":"2025-08-09T20:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57684\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T20:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:41:07","slug":"korn-ferry-golfer-reacts-to-shocking-pga-tour-blunder-they-made-a-mistake-and-they-were-regretful-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57684\/","title":{"rendered":"Korn Ferry golfer reacts to shocking PGA Tour blunder: &#8220;They made a mistake, and they were regretful about it&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A clerical error led to the wrong player being allowed into this week&#8217;s Korn Ferry Tour event, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Per Ryan French aka <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/acaseofthegolf1\/status\/1953915426489950500\" rel=\"nofollow\">MondayQInfo<\/a>, South Africa&#8217;s MJ Daffue wasn&#8217;t supposed to have a tee time at this week&#8217;s Pinnacle Bank Championship in Omaha.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old, who plays on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/pga-tour\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"0514d135-c0aa-4a5d-a5c8-f7197f44adc3\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"PGA Tour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PGA Tour<\/a> as well as the developmental Korn Ferry, has been playing tournaments in recent weeks on a medical exemption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Golfers are given a select number of starts to try and earn enough points retain their Tour cards when coming back from an injury. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Daffue had not earned enough points at the conclusion of the ISCO Championship last month but nobody noticed.<\/p>\n<p>He was supposed to be one of the alternates this week, with Rayhan Thomas ahead of him in the pecking order.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, the first alternate, spent the entirety of Thursday on the range waiting for a spot to open up in the scenario another player withdrew.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That did not materialise and Thomas had to drive home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His father had even flown over from Dubai to watch his son compete, according to French.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mix-up was particularly frustrating for Thomas, given he is 107th in the standings and only the top 156 players at the conclusion of the regular season in two weeks&#8217; time advance to the Korn Ferry Tour finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The top 20 players in the Korn Ferry Tour standings earn tickets to the big time. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, the 25-year-old was diplomatic when he spoke about the incident to <a href=\"https:\/\/golfchannel.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golf Channel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said the Tour were &#8216;regretful&#8217; about what transpired and planned to make amends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Tour is trying to find a way to rectify it, and I&#8217;m sure that we&#8217;ll come to an agreement and figure it out,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pretty confident that things will be made right. I think the Tour has good intentions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, they made a mistake, and they were regretful about it. Now, I&#8217;m back in Oklahoma, trying to get ready for Boise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my head, regardless of MJ getting in or not, I just didn&#8217;t play good enough to get into the field, so I need to play better, and hopefully Boise will be a good chance for me to move up the rankings a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Daffue started the Pinnacle Bank Championship in fine fashion, carding rounds of 67 and 66 to occupy a share of fourth place at the halfway stage on nine-under.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zach James was leading Matt Atkins by one stroke on 11-under at the top of the leaderboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A clerical error led to the wrong player being allowed into this week&#8217;s Korn Ferry Tour event, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-57684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57684","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=57684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}