When Stephan Jaeger held off Scottie Scheffler last March to triumph at the Texas Children’s Houston Open, it allowed Jaeger to join fellow Baylor School golfing alums Harris English, Luke List and Keith Mitchell as winners on the PGA Tour.
English and List have won multiple times at the highest level, and Jaeger had the opportunity for his second tour victory during Sunday’s final round of the Sony Open in Honolulu. He arrived at the 16th hole with a share of the lead but could not close out his stellar four-day performance, finishing a stroke back and in a tie for third.
“The game feels nice,” Jaeger said Sunday night in a news conference. “I’ve just got to make a little bit of an adjustment on my driving, which is one of my strengths. I think it’s probably going to be a little setup change, and I should be OK.
“I putted great the last two days and kind of kept myself in it that way. I wish I had a few of them back, but you can’t make all of them. I’m super happy with my game.”
Sunday became another milestone for those who once competed under the late King Oehmig, as each has now surpassed $10 million in PGA Tour career earnings, with Jaeger’s latest prize money of $513,000 giving the German-born former UTC standout $10,273,386. According to pgatour.com, that ranks one position ahead of John Daly, the 1991 PGA Championship winner and the 1995 British Open champ who made $10.27 million in his career.