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Web.com Tour: Finding the Next “Battlefield Bryan”

By Mike Randleman

Apr 16, 2017; Hilton Head, SC, USA; Wesley Bryan poses with the RBC Heritage trophy on the eighteenth green after winning at Harbour Town Golf Links. Mandatory Credit: Joshua S. Kelly-USA TODAY Sports
Apr 16, 2017; Hilton Head, SC, USA; Wesley Bryan poses with the RBC Heritage trophy on the eighteenth green after winning at Harbour Town Golf Links. Mandatory Credit: Joshua S. Kelly-USA TODAY Sports /
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Apr 16, 2017; Hilton Head, SC, USA; Wesley Bryan celebrates with his fiancé on the eighteenth green after winning the RBC Heritage golf tournament at Harbour Town Golf Links. Mandatory Credit: Joshua S. Kelly-USA TODAY Sports /

Could another “battlefield promotion” be on the way for a Web.com Tour player á la Wesley Bryan?

Is there a new Web.com Tour player waiting in the wings? What we saw this past week on the PGA TOUR was nothing short of incredible. Who might be next to qualify for a “battlefield promotion”?

Three years ago, Wesley Bryan was peddling trick shot videos with brother George.

These videos are awfully sweet, as you can see below, but hitting balls off the top of a golf cart doesn’t carry the same pedigree as a PGA TOUR win.

That’s what Bryan, 27, did in his home state at the RBC Heritage. This isn’t about his breakthrough win, though. It’s about how he got to this point with such rapid ascension.

That video above is just a shade over two years old. Bryan was not far removed from his collegiate days at South Carolina without status on the PGA TOUR or Web.com Tour when he produced and posted it to YouTube.

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He fought to reach the Web.com Tour in 2016, which he took by storm. Bryan racked up three wins by August to meet the minimum to earn the vaunted in-season “battlefield promotion” to the PGA TOUR.

Now, just 251 days after saying sayonara to the Web.com Tour, he’s a winner.

Only 21 golfers have won three times in one season on the Web.com Tour and only 11 since the battlefield promotion has been in effect.

Jason Gore is perhaps the most well-known recipient of the promotion. He won the PGA TOUR’s 84 Lumber Classic in September of 2005 just over a month after taking the Web.com Tour’s (then the Nationwide Tour) Cox Classic.

Bryan tied for eighth in his first post-promotion start at the John Deere Classic last August.

Who in this year’s Web.com Tour class could become the next “Battlefield Bryan”? Read on for five possible candidates.

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