{"id":752075,"date":"2026-07-09T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752075\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:00:56","slug":"max-homa-gets-in-the-open-championship-because-of-ben-kohles-missed-putt-at-john-deere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752075\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Homa gets in The Open Championship because of Ben Kohles’ missed putt at John Deere"},"content":{"rendered":"

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland \u2014 The final minutes of the John Deere Classic brought yet another reminder how every shot matters, and how it can affect more than one player.<\/p>\n

Ben Kohles was tied for the lead with Chris Gotterup when he hit 8-iron into the water on the 18th hole. <\/a>His penalty drop, and then a free drop from a sprinkler head, gave him a 45-foot par putt from the fringe to force a playoff.<\/p>\n

He missed wide right and it rolled out 2 feet, 8 inches away. The short bogey putt turned into a stunning miss, and Kohles took double bogey.<\/p>\n

Instead of a two-way tie for second with Max Homa, he fell into a three-way tie for third.<\/p>\n

It was costly for Kohles. Not only was it a difference of $318,200 in earnings, it cost him 100 FedExCup points. Make the putt and Kohles would be at No. 83. The miss moved him to No. 100.<\/p>\n

But it did wonders for Homa.<\/p>\n

The runner-up finish allowed him to move from No. 112 to No. 73 in the world ranking. Had Kohles made that short putt, Homa in a two-way tie for second would have moved to No. 84 in the world.<\/p>\n

The Open used this week\u2019s ranking to fill the field. Homa was notified Monday morning that he had a spot for Royal Birkdale next week. Had Kohles made the putt, Homa would have been the fifth alternate and unlikely to get in.<\/p>\n

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\"Open<\/p>\n

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Bryan is one of a dozen players who will compete in the R&A\u2019s inaugural Last Chance Qualifier, where the winner will earn a berth in the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH BERWICK, Scotland \u2014 The final minutes of the John Deere Classic brought yet another reminder how every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-752075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}