JUPITER, Fla. – Jacob Eggers of Vilas, NC, is a winner on the Minor League Golf Tour for the second time this week. The victories came in significantly different ways. On Thursday, he won on the first hole of a playoff at Jupiter Country Club compared to a three-stroke margin Monday at Indian Spring Country Club in Boynton Beach.
Eggers outlasted Marc Mazza of Palm Beach Gardens, FL and Phillip Yribarren of Miami, FL here after they tied at five under par 67. Eggers made a five-foot birdie putt at the par-4 first hole after Mazza and Yribarren had missed birdies from 40 and 30 feet, respectively.
Eggers received $570 from the $2,570 purse and $232 from an optional bonus pool for a total of $802.
In regulation Thursday, Yribarren had the only bogey among the three players, at the par-4 18th hole. He made six birdies, Eggers and Mazza five apiece. Mazza and Yribarren tied for second among 23 starters, each collecting $415.
Three players chose to enter the optional 3-event cumulative bonus pool this week. The entry fee was $200 and scores from all 3 one day events this week counted towards the cumulative bonus pool. Jacob Eggers fired rounds of 66-71-67 (204) to win by 13 shots.
The MLGT plays three more 18-hole tournaments next week: Monday, Jacaranda GC, Plantation; Tuesday, Abacoa GC, Jupiter; and Thursday, Martin Downs CC, Palm City. Tuesday’s event will be No. 1,500 since the MLGT began in 2004.