The APGA at PGA Golf Club in Port St. Lucie, Florida, will be the fifth event of the 2023 APGA Tour season as the Advocates Professional Golf Association (APGA) works to grow diversity in the sport. The organization is focused on ensuring that minority players have access to the tools and support they need, allowing them to better focus on their career path and development in the game.
DATE: April 30 – May 2, 2023
- Sunday, April 30 – Practice Rounds
- Monday, May 1 – First Round
- Tuesday, May 2 – Final Round
LOCATION: PGA Golf Club, 1916 Perfect Dr., Port St. Lucie, FL 34986 Tel: (772) 467-1300
FIELD SUMMARY:
Kevin Hall enters the tournament seeking his second APGA Tour win of the 2023 season. He won the APGA Tour Black History Month Classic in February, then finished in a three-way tie for second at APGA Florida at St. Johns Golf and Country Club in March. Hall shot a bogey-free 3-under-par 69 in the final round of the recent Florida tournament. He was diagnosed as profoundly deaf at age 2 after surviving H-flu meningitis and learned to play golf at age 9. He later became the first African American golfer to play at The Ohio State University, where he won the 2004 Big Ten Individual Championship.
Joey Stills returns after earning 2022-23 conditional status on PGA TOUR Latinoamérica due to his standout wins last year at the Jim Thorpe Invitational, OGA Tour Metrowest and OGA Tour Eagle Dunes.
Daniel Augustus looks to claim the top spot to avenge multiple top two finishes last year at APGA Tour at TPC Scottsdale and the Mastercard APGA Tour Championship.
Two-time APGA Tour winner Jarred Garcia will compete in his home state of Florida two years after winning in Port St. Lucie.
Ryan Alford joins the field seeking his first win of the season, following strong finishes in 2022 at APGA Tour at Valhalla (T4) and APGA Tour at TPC Louisiana (T5). He earned an exemption to play in the 2022 PGA TOUR Farmers Insurance Open after recording two wins on the 2021 APGA Tour.
APGA Tour Notes:
APGA Tour golfer Wyatt Worthington II, PGA will compete in the PGA Professional Championship for the PGA of America’s club professionals in New Mexico, April 30-May 3. As a result, he will not be in the APGA at PGA Golf Club field this year. Worthington, a PGA Teaching Professional at The Golf Depot at Central Park in Gahanna, Ohio, has previously qualified twice for the PGA Championship by finishing in the top 20.
In addition, Marcus Byrd will not be in the field this week because he earned an exemption into the PGA TOUR’s Wells Fargo Championship May 4-7 at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C. He will compete against PGA TOUR competition in the midst of his strong start to the APGA Tour season. On March 21, he won for the second time in just the third event of the season with a runaway 10-stroke victory over Davin White, Kevin Hall and Zachary Juhasz at APGA Tour Florida. That win came after the 25-year-old returned from making back-to-back starts on the PGA TOUR at The Genesis Invitational and the Honda Classic earlier this year. Byrd also won the APGA Tour Farmers Insurance Invitational at Torrey Pines, the first event of the season with the final round televised by GOLF Channel.
Tim O’Neal won last year’s APGA at PGA Golf Club and stands today as one of the APGA Tour’s great success stories. The Longtime Korn Ferry Tour and APGA Tour stalwart turned 50 last year and delivered one of the performances of his life to finish in the top five at PGA TOUR Champions Q School. He earned full-time status on the PGA TOUR’s circuit for pros over the age of 50, alongside some of the greatest names in the history of the sport.
O’Neal finished 33rd last week at the Invited Celebrity Classic in Irving, Texas. He also has a 15th place finish this season at the Hoag Classic. The veteran has a long history in professional golf, turning pro over 25 years ago, playing in the first APGA Tour event in 2010, and now competing against golf’s elite on a weekly basis.
Lexus Cup Point Standings
At this point in the season after three full-field events, Marcus Byrd leads the Lexus Cup
Point Standings with 930 Points. The Top 10 players in the race for season-end bonus money are below:
- Marcus Byrd – 930
- Kevin Hall – 898
- Wyatt Worthington II – 719
- DeVaughn Robinson – 330
- Gabriel Lench – 324
- Zachary Juhasz – 310
- Davin White – 307
- Quinn Riley – 305
- Aaron Beverly- 280
- Jared Garcia – 246
