Nick Dunlap has won again on the PGA Tour but this time, he gets to cash the winner’s check.
Dunlap scored 19 points in Sunday’s final round of the Barracuda Championship, the fifth and final opposite-field event on the PGA Tour’s 2024 schedule and also the lone event that uses the Modified Stableford scoring system.
Dunlaps’s day matched the highest single-day scoring mark of the week at the Old Greenwood course at Tahoe Mountain Club. His Sunday scorecard featured seven birdies (worth two points) and an eagle (worth five) and would’ve added up to a 62 it it were a stroke-play event.
His eagle came courtesy of a 55-foot bomb on the par-5 15th.
Dunlap vaulted up the leaderboard to finish with 49 points. He then had to play the waiting game to see if third-round leader Mac Meissner or anyone else could catch up. But no one could and Dunlap, who doesn’t turn 21 until December 23, collected a second piece of hardware this year.
Dunlap won the American Express in January to become the first amateur since Phil Mickelson in 1991 to win on Tour as an amateur. His amateur status, though, kept him from collecting the top prize of $1.512 million. Dunlap turned pro shortly after that and now has a second Tour win on his resume.
He’s the first golfer in PGA Tour history win as both an amateur and a pro in the same season.
His win this time around is good for $720,000. Maybe more importantly, Dunlap, who was No. 95 on the FedEx Cup points list heading into the Barracuda, has shot up to 63rd, which, if it holds, would put him into the FedEx Cup Playoffs in his rookie season. The top 70 make the field at the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis.
