PGA TOUR: Cameron Champ leads Fall Swing’s most dominant players
By Bill Felber
Richy Werenski is a 26-year-old out of Georgia Tech in his third full season on tour and using the fall swing to build a reputation. He made slightly more than $1 million in 32 starts last season, but is already over $614,000 in just his first five 2019 appearances.
When the tour resumes with the West Coast swing in January, Werenski will get a chance to turn that fall experience into serious momentum.
Werenski’s five starts – like Reavie, he missed the HSBC – were capped by a tie for third place at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in November, a performance that bettered the field average by 1.58 standard deviations. He came home in a tie for 15th at the RSM Classic, tied for 23rd at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and for 33rd at the Safeway Open. His worst showing – not all that bad – was a tie for 61st at the Sanderson Farms.
The resulting -0.36 average gives him a solid leg up on 2018, when he finished well down both the FedEx Cup and money lists.
Werenski may be a relative unknown on tour, but he can lay claim to at least one bit of golfing stardom. In 2015 he won the Golf Channel’s “Big Break Palm Beaches” competition.