O’Neal has spent the last few years bouncing among the secondary tours of pro golf - including a full season the PGA Tour Latinoamerica - doing most of his recent work on the Advocates Pro Golf Association Tour, a tour devoted to minorities in golf. Hopefully it’s going to inspire guys not to quit and keep grinding.”Ĭongratulations to for winning the inaugural #THEJOHNSHIPPEN National Invitational (men's field) & earning a sponsor exemption into the #RocketMortgageClassic!! ⛳️□□⛳️ #TJS2021 #ForeTheCulture #TheJohnShippen #JohnShippen #golf #blacksingolf #blackgolfers #blackgolf /bFAMQZH0Ww- The John Shippen June 28, 2021 “For me at 48, still to be able to compete and be able to play means a lot to me. “I’ve been doing this for a long time,” O’Neal said. And before it was the Nationwide Tour or the Buy.com Tour. To show you how long O’Neal has been at it, just know his first start on the Korn Ferry Tour came long before it was the Korn Ferry Tour. But before that, he now has his tee time at the Rocket Mortgage Classic this week, his eighth career Tour start and first since the 2015 U.S. “Age is nothing but a number, right?” he joked with the press, keen to remind them that August 3rd, his 49th birthday, is just a few weeks away. Timothy O'Neal was crowned the champion of the men's side at the inaugural John Shippen Monday at Detroit Golf Club.ĭETROIT - With the prize of a PGA Tour tee time on the line, it was unsurprisingly the man with more Tour experience than anyone else who triumphed at the inaugural John Shippen.įorty-eight year-old Tim O’Neal, a full decade older than any other player in the field, fired a final-round 68 at Detroit Golf Club to win by two in the new invitational featuring the best Black golfers in America.
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