{"id":281517,"date":"2025-11-25T00:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281517\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T00:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:08:12","slug":"seamus-power-to-have-conditional-status-on-pga-tour-for-2026-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/281517\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e9amus Power to have conditional status on PGA Tour for 2026 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/seamus-power\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/seamus-power\/\">S\u00e9amus Power<\/a> will have conditional status on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/pga-tour\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/pga-tour\/\">PGA Tour<\/a> next year after securing his best finish of 2025 at the RSM Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Waterford man finished tied 7th at the final event of the PGA Tour season in Sea Island, five shots behind winner Sami Valimaki, after a three-under-par final round of 67.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Power needed to finish third or better to break into the top 100 in the FedEx Cup Fall standings, but was satisfied with his performance to earn conditional status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI knew I probably had to win or finish second or something to be top 100. But I played well, didn\u2019t really get much going on the greens, which was disappointing. But that\u2019s golf sometimes,\u201d Power told the Irish Independent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 38-year-old entered the tournament in 129th place and moved up to 117th, which should allow him to play about 20 tournaments next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Valimaki became the first player from Finland to win on the PGA Tour, to add to his two victories on the DP World Tour, and gets a two-year exemption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S\u00e9amus Power will have conditional status on the PGA Tour next year after securing his best finish of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,8693,102134,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-281517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-pga-tour","10":"tag-seamus-power","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}