{"id":717849,"date":"2026-07-29T20:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717849\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:10:21","slug":"former-army-captain-marcus-plunkett-earns-pga-tour-of-australasia-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717849\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Army captain Marcus Plunkett earns PGA Tour of Australasia card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Army captain Marcus Plunkett reached one goal <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/open-cinderellas-five-of-the-best-stories-to-keep-an-eye-on-at-royal-birkdale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">when he qualified for his first major at the Open Championship<\/a> and made the cut. And then his journey just got started.<\/p>\n<p>Plunkett <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/from-the-army-into-the-weekend-at-birkdale-marcus-plunkett-making-most-of-open-debut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">raced back from Royal Birkdale<\/a> to play in U.S. qualifying tournament for the PGA Tour of Australasia. First, he had to stop at a sporting goods store to buy a push cart for the four-round event. He tied for second at Kinderlou Forest Golf Club near Valdosta, Georgia, to earn his card for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was definitely a little delirious round one, but as the week\u2019s gone on, started to feel a little bit back to normal,\u201d Plunkett said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he has never been to Australia, but all his friends from Down Under have told him the coffee is the best, \u201cso I\u2019ve got to see if they\u2019re pulling my leg or not about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plunkett, who spent five years in the Army after graduating from West Point, already has had a Korn Ferry Tour card and currently plays the Asian Tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI have Asian Tour status so I\u2019m trying to figure out the balance of the two moving forward,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m really excited to get out to Australia and get on the links out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Army captain Marcus Plunkett reached one goal when he qualified for his first major at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717849","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=717849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}