Former UTC golfer Stephan Jaeger from Baylor School begins play Wednesday in the six-round final stage of the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, along with another ex-Moc, Jonathan Hodge.The final stage of PGA Tour Qualifying School is the most grueling golf tournament in the world.
It lasts six days. The prize for winning is not a green jacket or a claret jug. Actually, winning is not that important.
Getting into the top 25 delivers a dream — playing on the PGA Tour next year. Harris English, who prepped at Baylor School, accomplished the dream last year and earned more than $1 million on the Tour this season.
Two of his Chattanooga-area friends are still chasing it. Former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga golfers Jonathan Hodge and Stephan Jaeger will begin the final stage of Q-School on the two courses at PGA West in LaQuinta, Calif., on Wednesday.
“I’ve hung out with Harris quite a bit the last couple months in south Georgia,” said Jaeger, who played with English at Baylor. “He told me that he had nothing to risk. When you get to final stage, you have nothing to lose — especially as a guy in my shoes.”