Keith Mitchell gives Baylor School four on PGA Tour for 2018

Adam Campbell talks about putting at the Lookout Mountain Golf and Country Club, where he is head golf professional.
Adam Campbell talks about putting at the Lookout Mountain Golf and Country Club, where he is head golf professional.

Baylor School will have an eye-popping four former Red Raiders on the PGA Tour in 2018.

Keith Mitchell, who missed out on a top-25 finish in the Web.com Tour's regular-season money list by one stroke, clinched a one-year PGA Tour card Sunday afternoon by tying for sixth in the DAP Championship at Canterbury Golf Club in Beachwood, Ohio.

The 25-year-old Mitchell had four tournaments after the regular season to make the tour and clinched it in his third event, having also finished tied for sixth at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship at Ohio State University on Sept. 3.

"It might be a blessing that happened, because my focus and determination the past three weeks is something I haven't felt in my career," Mitchell said Sunday in an interview on the Web.com Tour's website.

Mitchell will join fellow Baylor alums Harris English, Stephan Jaeger and Luke List and on the PGA Tour next season. Jaeger qualified several weeks ago with a seventh-place finish on the Web.com Tour's regular-season money list.

List is the oldest of the bunch at 32, while English and Jaeger are both 28 and played with Mitchell for the Red Raiders.

"That's going to be a lot of fun," Mitchell said in a release provided by the DAP Championship. "That might be a first. We've helped each other from Baylor all the way to now. Jaeger's help the last month has been something that's been priceless to me, so I owe him a lot.

"Harris has been kind of like the big brother to Jaeger and I growing up, so it's huge. It's going to be a lot of fun next year traveling with those guys."

English has earned nearly $11.2 million in his professional career, while List has made more than $2.8 million. Jaeger made nearly $280,000 this year on the Web.com Tour, while Mitchell made $151,444 and earned another $144,900 by tying for 11th with Jason Dufner and Chad Campbell in March at the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Fla. Mitchell qualified for that tournament the Monday before.

Baylor also has Brooke Pancake, who has made more than $250,000 since turning pro in 2013, on the LPGA Tour.

Contact David Paschall at dpaschall@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6524.

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