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Greyson Sigg earns first win at Visit Knoxville Open on Korn Ferry Tour

Greyson Sigg, who opened with a 61 on Thursday, fired a final-round 66 to earn his first professional win.

Stephan Jaeger will have to wait at least another week to try to earn that PGA Tour promotion as Greyson Sigg had other plans.

On Sunday, at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Visit Knoxville Open, Jaeger opened the final round with a three-shot lead over Sigg and then birdied his first hole. A win would’ve been Jaeger’s third on the circuit, and that would’ve earned him his Tour card. The last player to earn his PGA Tour card via the three-win promotion was Wesley Bryan in 2016. In all, 11 players have done so.

If Jaeger is to be the 12th, it will come at a later date.

Sigg, who opened the week with a 61, fired a final-round 66 and snagged the victory at Holston Hills Country Club in Knoxville, Tennessee, the first professional win for the 26-year-old University of Georgia product. His previous best finish was a solo second in the Korn Ferry Tour Championship last August.

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Sigg is one of 12 players featured in the CBS show called “One Shot Away,” which is produced by PGA Tour Entertainment. It tracks players chasing after a PGA Tour card during the 2021 portion of the combined Korn Ferry Tour season. KFT players who finish in the top 25 at the end of the season also earn a promotion to the PGA Tour.

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Greyson Sigg plays his shot from the 10th tee during the Final Round of the Visit Knoxville Open at Holston Hills Country Club on May 16, 2021 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

Jaeger was also looking to tie Jason Gore’s record for most wins—with seven—on the circuit but managed an even-par round of 70 as he closed with a bogey on the 17th hole and a par on the par-5 finishing hole.

Seth Reeves shot a 61, matching Sigg’s first-round fireworks. Reeves had 10 birdies and a bogey in his final round round to finish solo third at 17 under. Max Greyserman and Harrison Endycott finished tied for fourth a 16 under.

The Korn Ferry Tour next travels to Blue Hills Country Club in Kansas City for the AdventHealth Championship.

Seth Reeves pulls off massive comeback to win Pinnacle Bank Championship on KFT

Seth Reeves rose 26 spots on the leaderboard to claim his first Korn Ferry Tour title at the Pinnacle Bank Championship.

Seth Reeves had a long way to go at the start of the final round, but the 29-year-old chipped away at an eight-shot deficit on Sunday and came out with a one-shot victory at the Pinnacle Bank Championship. Remarkably, Reeves rose 26 spots on the leaderboard to claim his first Korn Ferry Tour title.

Reeves had not made a cut in the six Korn Ferry events played since the post-COVID restart, and he barely made the cut at the Club at Indian Creek this week in Omaha, Nebraska. He finished birdie-birdie in the second round to make it by one.

A third-round 68 left Reeves in 26th entering the final round, which he started ordinarily enough. He went 1 over in his first three holes. Reeves then closed out the front nine with three birdies then added three more plus an eagle at the par-5 15th. All that added up to a final-round 7-under 64. It moved Reeves to 11 under for 72 holes and one ahead of a group of five players at 10 under.

“Just really grateful to have won this tournament on a tough course. Started the day in (26th) and never thought I had a chance to win and here I am the champion.”

Reeves is a 2014 graduate of Georgia Tech, where he was a two-time All-American. He won three individual titles there.

A large group of players tied for second, a shot behind Reeves, included Taylor Pendrith, Nick Voke, Carl Yuan, Tyson Alexander and Ryan Ruffels.

The Korn Ferry Tour heads to North Plains, Oregon, next week for the WinCo Foods Portland Open.

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