Pro explains why he didn’t play either the Genesis Scottish Open or ISCO Championship: ‘Basically, I got shafted’

“Very political. He is the kind of person you cannot really speak with,” he said of Kinnings.

Mike Lorenzo-Vera didn’t fare too well at the Barracuda Championship on Thursday but the more intriguing story revolves around why he didn’t play last week in the ISCO Championship in Kentucky, or for that matter, the Genesis Scottish Open.

There was a “problem getting into the registration system,” the affable Frenchman explained, which kept him out of Kentucky. “Basically, I got shafted.”

The PGA Tour and DP World Tour announced a strategic alliance in November 2020 and for the third consecutive year the Scottish Open was co-sanctioned by the two circuits and represented by roughly 75 players each in the field. The Isco Championship offered 50 spots to players on the DP World Tour, but part of the confusion revolves around different entry deadlines. DP World Tour regulations require a player to enter a tournament by midday on Thursday two weeks before the start of an event while the PGA Tour deadline is 5 p.m. ET on the Friday before an event. In fact, Tom Kim required one of three sponsor’s invites into the Scottish Open last week because his manager missed the DP World Tour’s two-week deadline.

Lorenzo-Vera’s circumstances are a little different as he entered the Scottish Open on time but failed to enter the ISCO Championship, expecting to get into the Scottish. To his dismay, his number didn’t get called for the tournament offering a purse of $9 million and 500 FedEx Cup points to the winner. Even with Sebastian Soderberg pulling out with a rib injury to let Alejandro del Rey get into the Scottish Open, Lorenzo-Vera was the eighth man out.

What’s unclear is if the exemption given to Kim, who is South Korean and sponsored by Genesis, had been earmarked for Lorenzo-Vera and if that had anything to do with him failing to sign up for the opposite-field event in the U.S., which he would have gotten into otherwise.

“There’s been a problem in the system, and they haven’t been able to fix it, which is, I think, a technical thing. I was registered, and it said, not entered. And I said, so what can we do? I asked for an invite to the Scottish Open after working my ass off for the tour for the last four years. And being for once in a very tricky situation, they didn’t help,” Lorenzo-Vera said when asked for clarification on why he didn’t get into the opposite-field event last week in Kentucky with a purse of $4 million and 300 FedEx Cup points to the winner. “And I know Tom (Kim, who got an exemption) is very important to the tournament, but before being a PGA Tour (event), it’s a DP World Tour event, and I think I’m a DP World Tour player, and to have the opportunity when something happened on their side and I’m not able to play, well, huh?”

Asked if he was given an explanation, he said, “Not yet. But I will never have it.”

A DP World Tour media official explained that a lot of its members entered both the Scottish and ISCO tournaments because “if you got into one, you could withdraw from the other without penalty. It appears (Lorenzo-Vera’s) manager assumed he would get into the Scottish Open and didn’t register him for the Isco in time.”

Lorenzo-Vera, 39, turned pro in 2005 and entered the week ranked 123rd on the DP World Tour and No. 341 in the world. He was a supporter of former DP World Tour CEO Keith Pelley, who stepped down in April and was succeeded by his second in command, Guy Kinnings.

“He was like a proper guy, like a proper, proper man. Like, no, no, bullshit,” Lorenzo-Vera said of Pelley. “I think he’s been squeezed in a very tricky situation between PGA and PIF. And he tried his best. He did what he believed was right … Definitely miss Keith.”

Lorenzo-Vera said he voiced his complaints directly to Kinnings on his situation and was disappointed with the response.

“Very political. He is the kind of person you cannot really speak with,” he said of Kinnings.“Those guys just don’t care.”

Asked if he has faith in Kinnings to lead the circuit, Lorenzo-Vera said, “After what happened (with Kentucky and then the Scottish Open)? Absolutely not.”

But Lorenzo-Vera conceded that is his personal opinion and that the tour’s leadership is doing a good job in a difficult environment.

“I think when Keith left, it was in a really good position, considering Covid,” the Frenchman said. “I think they are working hard. That’s for sure. That’s something I’ll never take out from them. And they’re trying their best…I know the guys are working really hard on trying to make the tour as global as they can and try to bring money in.”

What would he like to see change? “More transparency to the players,” he said. “We (the European Tour players) always talk about that. And it feels like it’s never gonna happen. So it’s a lost fight.”

Lorenzo-Vera may want to direct some of his angst in this particular situation at his manager for his unscheduled week off, given that he could have been registered for both tournaments and had he gotten into the Scottish a late withdrawal fee for the Isco would have been waived. Still, Lorenzo-Vera said that removing the registration snafu from the equation and the co-sanctioned events as part of the strategic alliance were a good thing.

“I think it’s a better opportunity to play on the PGA Tour,” he said, “because you get two opportunities to get an exemption.”

Nick Lozito contributed original reporting in Truckee, California, to this story.

2024 ISCO Championship prize money payouts for each PGA Tour player

Harry Hall’s first win comes with a big paycheck.

Harry Hall is set to become a dad any day now, but winning a PGA Tour event also has to be high on the list of his life achievements.

The Englishman captured the 2024 ISCO Championship late Sunday night, winning a five-man playoff on the third hole with a chip-in birdie. It’s the first Tour victory for Hall, who will move to 100th in the Official World Golf Ranking with the achievement.

Pierceson Coody, Matt NeSmith, Zac Blair and Rico Hoey were also in the playoff. However, Hall is taking home the top prize of $720,000 and 300 FedEx Cup points.

Here’s a closer look at how much each player made at the 2024 ISCO Championship from a purse of $4 million.

Prize money payouts

Position Player Score Earnings
1 Harry Hall -22 $720,000
T2 Matt NeSmith -22 $268,000
T2 Pierceson Coody -22 $268,000
T2 Zac Blair -22 $268,000
T2 Rico Hoey -22 $268,000
T6 Ben Taylor -20 $130,500
T6 S.Y. Noh -20 $130,500
T6 Sam Bairstow -20 $130,500
T6 Neal Shipley -20 $130,500
T10 Chan Kim -19 $93,000
T10 Brandon Wu -19 $93,000
T10 Lanto Griffin -19 $93,000
T10 Chez Reavie -19 $93,000
T10 Johannes Veerman -19 $93,000
15 Patrick Fishburn -18 $73,000
T16 Maximilian Rottluff -17 $61,000
T16 Mac Meissner -17 $61,000
T16 Adrien Saddier -17 $61,000
T16 Angel Hidalgo -17 $61,000
T16 Andy Sullivan -17 $61,000
T21 Callum Tarren -16 $43,600
T21 Ryan Moore -16 $43,600
T21 Austin Smotherman -16 $43,600
T21 Cody Gribble -16 $43,600
T25 Henrik Norlander -15 $30,733
T25 William McGirt -15 $30,733
T25 Sam Ryder -15 $30,733
T25 Spencer Cross -15 $30,733
T25 Kevin Chappell -15 $30,733
T25 Matthis Besard -15 $30,733
T31 Andrea Pavan -14 $23,400
T31 Dylan Wu -14 $23,400
T31 Ryan McCormick -14 $23,400
T31 Cooper Musselman -14 $23,400
T31 Ben Silverman -14 $23,400
T31 Jacques Kruyswijk -14 $23,400
T37 Tom Vaillant -13 $17,400
T37 David Lipsky -13 $17,400
T37 Fabrizio Zanotti -13 $17,400
T37 Russell Knox -13 $17,400
T37 Luke Clanton (a) -13 $0
T37 Hayden Springer -13 $17,400
T37 Ricardo Gouveia -13 $17,400
T37 Alex Smalley -13 $17,400
T45 MJ Daffue -12 $12,632
T45 J.J. Spaun -12 $12,632
T45 Chad Ramey -12 $12,632
T45 Kevin Tway -12 $12,632
T45 Lukas Nemecz -12 $12,632
T50 Jonathan Byrd -11 $10,307
T50 Patton Kizzire -11 $10,307
T50 Francesco Laporta -11 $10,307
T53 Roger Sloan -10 $9,720
T53 Brandt Snedeker -10 $9,720
T55 Andrew Wilson -9 $9,360
T55 Sebastian Friedrichsen -9 $9,360
T55 S.H. Kim -9 $9,360
T55 Marcus Kinhult -9 $9,360
T59 Nick Hardy -8 $9,040
T59 Hayden Buckley -8 $9,040
T59 Aaron Baddeley -8 $9,040
T59 Troy Merritt -8 $9,040
63 Garrick Higgo -7 $8,840
T64 Kevin Kisner -6 $8,680
T64 Bill Haas -6 $8,680
T64 James Hahn -6 $8,680
67 Paul Barjon -4 $8,520

 

Harry Hall gets first PGA Tour win at 2024 ISCO Championship via 5-way playoff

What a way to get your first win.

Talk about a clutch moment worth the wait.

Harry Hall picked up his first PGA Tour victory late Sunday night when he chipped in for birdie on the third playoff hole to win the 2024 ISCO Championship. Hall’s chip-in came on the par-3 ninth hole after he, Matt NeSmith and Pierceson Coody made par on the par-4 18th hole twice.

Even better for Hall, he’s set to become a dad next week.

Initially, it was a five-man playoff with Rico Hoey and Zac Blair involved, but the duo bogeyed the first playoff hole and knocked them out.

The fivesome all finished at 22 under par for the week, but it’s Hall walking away with the trophy.

He will not get into the Open Championship field since there weren’t any spots available, but he did win $720,000 and earn 300 FedEx Cup points.

Amateur Luke Clanton is the betting favorite(!) at the PGA Tour’s 2024 ISCO Championship

The kid is rolling.

Many of the world’s best players are across the pond this week for the 2024 Genesis Scottish Open, but there’s a field of PGA Tour players headed to Kentucky for the ISCO Championship at Keene Trace Golf Club. Arguably the biggest storyline heading into the tournament is amateur Luke Clanton, who last week became the first amateur to finish inside the top 10 in back-to-back Tour starts — T-10 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, T-2 at the John Deere Classic — since Billy Joe Patton in 1957.

Incredibly, with names like Joel Dahmen, Cameron Champ and Sam Ryder in the field, Clanton is the betting favorite to win the ISCO Championship at +900 (9/1). The next closest is Michael Thorbjornsen, another rising Tour star, at +1400 (14/1). Thorbjornsen, like Clanton, was a runner-up at TPC Deere Run last week.

Thanks to his amateur status, Clanton, a sophomore at Florida State, lost $804,776 in earnings over the last two weeks.

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With most of PGA Tour’s best in Scotland, here’s a look at the field for the ISCO Championship

The purse is $4 million, and the winner will earn 300 FedEx Cup points.

New name, same tournament, same stakes.

The 2024 ISCO Championship is set to begin Thursday from Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Kentucky. The event is co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour and DP World Tour and is the opposite-field event from the Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club.

Vincent Norrman picked up his first PGA Tour victory last year in the former Barbasol Championship, beating Nathan Kimsey in a playoff.

This year, there are numerous past PGA Tour winners in the field, as well as Michael Thorbjornsen, who finished No. 1 in the PGA Tour University standings for 2024, and Luke Clanton, the amateur who has made the cut each of the past two weeks on Tour.

The purse is $4 million, and the winner will earn 300 FedEx Cup points. Also up for grabs is a spot in the Open Championship to the highest-finishing golfer who isn’t already exempt.

Here’s a look at the field for the 2024 ISCO Championship: