SALT LAKE CITY — Two Utah club professionals will play in this month’s PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey after qualifying this week at the PGA Professional Championship.
Joe Summerhays and Tommy Sharp finished in the top 20 at the annual event for club professsionals at the Turning Stone Resort in Verona, N.Y., to earn spots in the fourth of the golf majors this year. The top 20 finishers earn spots in the prestigious PGA tourney.
The 42–year–old Summerhays, who works as a teaching pro at Oakridge Country Club in Farmington, shot a final-round 69 and finished in a tie for 10th place at 284. He is the son of Bruce Summerhays, who was successful for more than a decade on the Champions Tour. Sharp, 34, a former State Amateur champion who teaches at the Golf Lab in Salt Lake, finished in 12th place at 284 after a 70 in the final round.
The PGA Championship will be played July 28-31, a couple of weeks earlier than usual because of the Olympics, which are including golf this year during the mid-August games.
Two Utahns who are regulars on the PGA Tour, Tony Finau and Daniel Summerhays, are both expected to play in the PGA as well.