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The Korn Ferry Tour returns to Manatee County. What to know about the golf tournament

Apr. 3—The LECOM Suncoast Classic will return to Lakewood National Golf Club later this month.

It's the sixth time the Korn Ferry tournament is making a stop in Manatee County. The tournament is slated for April 18-21.

The five previous winners are currently on the PGA Tour.

According to the latest Official World Golf Rankings, the highest-ranked golfer to win the LECOM Suncoast Classic was Byeong Hun An.

He's ranked No. 42 in the world as of Wednesday.

An, who won in 2022, previously lived in Bradenton, attending the former Bradenton Prep and winning the U.S. Amateur as a high school student.

Other winners of the tournament include Scott Gutschewiski (2023), Hayden Buckley (2021), Andrew Novak (2020) and Mark Hubbard (2019).

Hubbard's victory in 2019 featured the lowest score to par in the five-year history. He shot 26-under par over four rounds.

The $1 million purse tournament is contested on Lakewood National Golf Club's Commander course, which is an Arnold Palmer Design Company track.

Ticket and parking information

General admission and hospitality tickets are available at different prices. For single-day admission at the general admission tier, the cost is $20 per ticket and $60 per ticket for a weekly pass.

Champions Club tickets feature an all-inclusive hospitality experience at $175 per ticket per day or $650 per ticket for a weekly pass. Pier 22 and The Grove Restaurant cater food for VIP Champions Club hospitality ticket holders with food, beer, soft drinks, wine and liquor included with premium tables and seating under a shared tent that offers views of the 18th green.

But if you're a child 17 and younger, entry into the tournament is free. It's also free for active military, veterans, first responders and teachers plus one guest with a valid I.D.

For more information on tickets, visit www.LECOMSuncoastClassic.com/tickets .

Parking for the tournament is free and located at the Premier Sports Campus, 5895 Post Boulevard in Lakewood Ranch. A free, 5-minute trolley service takes patrons to and from the course. The last shuttle leaves the course 30 minutes after play ends each day.

Staff and directional signage will be present to assist with parking.

Can you bring your phone?

Spectators can bring their phones but are asked to keep them on silent. You must move to an area away from the course to take phone calls.

Additionally, no cameras or camera bags are allowed at the tournament. Fans seeking autographs can get them after a player has finished their round with the 18th green, practice putting green and driving range listed as the best places to get an autograph.

Collapsible folding chairs are allowed, but chair bags, lawn or oversized chairs and seat cushions are prohibited.

For more information, visit www.LECOMSuncoastClassic.com/spectator-info .

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The tournament field and tee times are not set yet. The Korn Ferry Tour is a pathway to the PGA Tour with the top players by season's end receiving promotion with a PGA Tour card.

The Korn Ferry Tour has had various sponsorship names over the years since its inception in 1990. The No. 1-ranked player in the world, Scottie Scheffler, is a Korn Ferry Tour alumnus. Scheffler won the Arnold Palmer Invitational and The Players Championship during the PGA Tour's Florida Swing in March.

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Gibson fires final-round 64, wins Korn Ferry Tour event in Columbia

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BOGOTA, Colombia – Rhein Gibson was already a Korn Ferry Tour winner, but Sunday’s four-stroke victory at the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard marked his first win in a 72-hole event. Gibson, a native of Australia, Edmond resident and member of Oak Tree National, closed with a bogey-free 7-under 64 and capped the lowest round of the week on Country Club de Bogota’s Lagos Course with an eagle at the par-5 18th.

A new addition to the trophy case 🏆 With 148 starts under his belt, Rhein Gibson is now a two-time Korn Ferry Tour champion. pic.twitter.com/AfQKXP8hog — Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) February 12, 2023

Gibson emerged from a crowded leaderboard which, at one point Sunday afternoon, saw six players tied for the lead at 10-under par. The 37-year-old Gibson separated from the pack and reached 13-under par with a birdie at the par-4 ninth followed by an eagle at the par-5 10th. Another birdie at the par-3 15th and the aforementioned eagle at No. 18 took him to 16-under par for the tournament and put him four strokes clear of runner-up and former Oklahoma State golfer Kevin Dougherty.

Gibson’s four-stroke win tied FedExCup champion Patrick Cantlay (2013) and Mark Anderson (2019) for the second-largest margin of victory in the 13-season history of the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard, only trailing Ben Taylor’s six-stroke victory in 2018. It also marked the largest margin of victory in a Korn Ferry Tour event since David Kocher’s six-stroke win at the 2022 Price Cutter Charity Championship presented by Dr Pepper last July.

In addition to being the lowest round of the week on the host course, Gibson’s 64 tied the lowest final round posted in the 13-season history of the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard. The only other final-round 64 produced by a champion of the event came from Mito Pereira in 2020.

Gibson opened his week with a 2-under 68 on Country Club de Bogota’s Pacos Course, the par-70 and 6,249-yard satellite course introduced to the event in 2019. The three previous champions carded a 65 or better on Pacos, but Gibson did the majority of his scoring on the Lagos Course.

After a double-bogey six at Lagos’ par-4 13th in the second round, Gibson made just two bogeys the rest of the tournament and played his final 41 holes at 15-under par.

“This is pretty vindicating,” said Gibson, whose previous Korn Ferry Tour win came at the  rain-shortened 2019 BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX . “That (win) was a little truncated. We knew going into the third round it was going to be the final round. To get four rounds done, play awesome on the weekend, bogey-free on Sunday, it just takes the cake. I’m over the moon.”

Gibson left Australia at age 18 and played collegiately at Oklahoma Christian University, an NAIA program in Edmond. Gibson garnered four All-America First Team selections (2005-08) and led Oklahoma Christian to the verge of a national title each of his seasons on the team. (Oklahoma Christian won two of the next three NAIA National Championships and eventually joined NCAA Division II after Gibson exhausted his eligibility.)

“It’s pretty surreal to pack my life up in a suitcase and come to America and go to Oklahoma,” Gibson said. “I didn’t even know where it was without an atlas back then.”

Gibson turned professional in 2009 and would not earn Korn Ferry Tour membership until a solo-fourth finish at Final Stage of the 2014 Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament. In his first season on the Korn Ferry Tour, Gibson closed the the 2015 Korn Ferry Tour Finals with back-to-back top-10s and earned a PGA TOUR card.

Although Gibson fell back to the Korn Ferry Tour after a No. 199 finish in the 2015-16 FedExCup Standings, he graduated again at the conclusion of the 2019 season, doing so off the strength of his aforementioned victory and a T8 at the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard.

The next two seasons on the PGA TOUR, however, Gibson fell outside the top 190 in the FedExCup Standings and was once again relegated to the Korn Ferry Tour. Last season, Gibson missed 14 cuts in 22 starts and had just two top-25s, leaving him at No. 150 on the 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Points List.

“I wasn’t sure how much more golf I was going to do. Decided not to go to Q-School, thought I’d take a chance on (3-4 Years) Past Champion status,” Gibson said. “Worked my butt off this fall and this wintertime, kind of got my game in shape. The game felt good coming here. I love the place. I knew I could contend, and a good round yesterday put me in contention. To go out and do what I did today was just insane.”

At 37 years and 11 days of age, Gibson became the oldest Korn Ferry Tour winner since David Skinns won the 2021 Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Aetna and punched his ticket to the PGA TOUR at 39 years, 6 months, 14 days of age.

“I’m old now. All these young kids coming out of college, it’s crazy,” said Gibson, who shares a 2-year-old son with his wife, Nancy. “Just shows that I can still hang with these young guys, so it’s pretty cool.”

Paired with a T31 finish from last week’s The Panama Championship (after missed cuts in the first two events of the season), Gibson’s victory moved him to No. 3 on the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Points List, behind two-time runner-up Cody Blick and points leader Chandler Phillips, who backed up a win in the season-opening event with a T12 the next week.

With a little over five weeks until the Korn Ferry Tour continues its season at the Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club (March 23-26), Gibson intends to head home to Australia for the first time in more than three years.

“I haven’t been to Australia since COVID,” Gibson said. “I’ve seen my parents, but not many other people. Pretty excited to get home.”

The Korn Ferry Tour is coming to Oklahoma this year with the Compliance Solutions Championship June 22-25 at Jimmie Austin OU Golf Course in Norman. Volunteer and ticket information is available at https://compliancesolutionschampionship.com/

Besides Gibson and Dougherty, other players with Oklahoma ties competing were third-round leader Kris Ventura (OSU), who tied for seventh at 10-under. Tied for 28th at 6-under were former OU Sooners Grant Hirschman, Quade Cummins (Weatherford) and Chris Gotterup. Former Jenks and OSU golfer Brendon Jelley shot even-par and missed making his first Korn Ferry Tour cut by a single shot. Also missing the cut were Logan McAllister (OU and Oklahoma City) and Tag Ridings, who grew up in Tulsa.

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Five things to know: Alejandro Tosti

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HOUSTON – PGA TOUR rookie Alejandro Tosti has entered the chat.

The Argentina native earned a spot in Saturday’s final group at the Texas Children’s Houston Open alongside Tony Finau and Thomas Detry, as he seeks his first TOUR title in just his eighth start as a member.

This week has been different though. He opened in 66-67 at Houston’s beloved muni venue to hold second place into the weekend, two back of Finau.

Here are five things to know about Tosti.

1. He grew up riding the bus to the course

Tosti had an unconventional introduction to the game. His origins stem from his childhood home in Rosario, Argentina, playing with a charcoal stick and ping-pong ball; he and his brother would bet five cents to see who holed the ball into a backyard drain. Starting at age 8, he would often take a one-hour bus ride from Rosario to the nearest public course in Perez to practice on most weekdays; his father taught him the bus route, and his parents would walk him to and from the bus stop.

“That kid always dreamed on that bus ride to be able to have a chance to play on the PGA TOUR and now it’s a reality,” Tosti said. “It’s happening, so just enjoy it and try your best.”

From humble beginnings, Alejandro Tosti savors his PGA TOUR moments

2. He sees golf as art

Tosti isn’t afraid to get creative off the tee. Whether the hole plays for a draw, fade or straight ball, he readily accepts the challenge – or sometimes cooks up his own play. Hard hooks, spinny cuts and low lasers are all among his arsenal. He thrives in this area too; he entered this week ranked No. 7 on TOUR in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee.

It’s no surprise that when asked Friday to name the strength of his game, he simply said “driver.”

“I just enjoy visualizing a shot and just stepping out there and execute it; it's the fun part of the game,” Tosti said Friday. “Since very young I was always that way. Grew up at a course that is very short and you have to work the ball both ways. It's the same here, but the courses are longer now.”

3. He’s a foodie

Tosti loves to cook and considers Argentine empanadas to be his specialty; he has been known to cook for host families at various stops in professional golf. He didn’t start cooking until he moved to the United States for college; now he enjoys cooking Argentinian meals, Asian food and using different spices to accentuate flavors.

“My descendancy is Italian and we’re big into cooking … I grew up going out to eat three to four times a year,” Tosti said. “We cook at a friend’s place, or everybody comes to your house or go to a family party; it’s always home cooking. I grew up with my mom fixing lunch every day and then my dad fixing dinner for every meal, so I got it from them.”

Tosti particularly enjoys his parents’ breaded chicken – “in the oven, just plain with some good salad or mashed potatoes” – and the aforementioned empanadas.

“I enjoy preparing my meals and enjoy exploring different types of kitchens, different spices,” he said.

4. He’s a fixer

Tosti appreciates his golf gift but doesn’t want the game to consume his life. He enjoys venturing outside the ropes and doesn’t mind getting his hands dirty, citing the influence of his dad, an electronic engineer.

“I’m not a golf fanatic,” Tosti said. “I’m a good player who takes the time to do the work, but once the work is done, I take off and I do a lot of things. I love cars; I try to modify my cars and change stuff in it myself and learn about it. I’m a fixer. I like taking apart stuff and figuring out what’s going on, at least try. My dad is an electronic engineer and I grew up seeing a lot of stuff being taken apart and fixed, so that’s something that I’m still learning.”

Case in point – Tosti recently found a blender about to be thrown out and took pride in fixing it.

“The last one was a blender that was next to the trash can,” he said. “I’m like, ‘Wow, this blender in the trash can.’ I took everything apart and that there was just one wire that was cut, and I put it together with a soldering iron and just worked out great.”

5. His accomplishments are far-reaching

Some might see Tosti’s name on a TOUR leaderboard as a surprise, but his game has been building toward this moment. He was a four-time winner at the University of Florida and earned first-team All-American honors as a junior in 2017; he was also medalist at the 2017 SEC Championships. After turning pro in 2018, he won on PGA TOUR Latinoamerica the next year and again in 2022, where he finished No. 5 on the season-long standings to earn Korn Ferry Tour membership.

Then he produced a banner 2023 Korn Ferry Tour season, winning the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse – including a hole-out eagle on the final day – en route to a third-place finish on the season-long standings and his first PGA TOUR card.

Alejandro Tosti holes out for an eagle on No. 14 at Pinnacle Bank

His rookie season hadn’t gone as plan into Houston, but things are coming together.

“I was really sad at the beginning of the year not being able to kind of mentally engage with the game, not be connected, not getting the results that I wanted,” Tosti said Friday. “Made a couple changes coming into this week and they're working, so just going to keep it this way.”

Kevin Prise is an associate editor for the PGA TOUR. He is on a lifelong quest to break 80 on a course that exceeds 6,000 yards and to see the Buffalo Bills win a Super Bowl. Follow Kevin Prise on Twitter .