Web.com Tour players: Goals and results

Web.com Tour players are just one step away from playing on the biggest stage of golf, the PGA TOUR. With such a fine line between success and failure at the highest levels of the sport, Web.com Tour pros know that if they can fine-tune one particular area of their game, they could be poised to make the jump to the next level. We asked a handful of Web.com Tour pros earlier in the season to name one part of their game they would like to improve in 2016. Midway through the Regular Season, how are they faring?

Anders Albertson

Goal: “I want to try my best to learn the courses really well in the practice rounds … Monday through Wednesday, I’ve got to get really good at figuring out how the courses are going to play.” Result: It’s been a bit of Jekyll-and-Hyde for Anders Albertson this season, as he started with three missed cuts, then recorded three straight top-30 finishes including a solo third, then missed four more cuts in a row. If he can find another hot streak this summer, a TOUR card could be in the cards.

Dominic Bozzelli

Goal: “If I can get consistent with my wedge play … easier said than done, but that’s a good bulk of the practice that I’m going to be putting in.” Result: Mission accomplished, with the former Auburn Tiger ranking 16th in Scrambling at the midway point (62.69 percent), after being less than 60 percent in 2015. Dominic Bozzelli won recently in Punta Cana and is comfortably inside the top 10 on the money list.

Joel Dahmen

Goal: “Definitely my short game. My putting lets me down … I think I’m a top-20 ball-striker out here, and I think I finished about 150th in putting last year.” Result: Joel Dahmen ranks 67th in Scrambling (54.41 percent), a slight improvement on the 2015 season where he ranked 89th. He stood No. 25 on the money list at the midway point, right on the bubble for a TOUR card.

Kent Bulle

Goal: “Just a couple more 8- to 10-footers, something like that. I’m not asking for 60-footers, to reinvent putting or anything like that; but a couple more 8- to 10-footers to go in.” Result: Kent Bulle ranks 88th on Tour in Putting Average in his rookie Tour season, squarely in the middle of the pack. But his putter heated up in early June at a U.S. Open sectional qualifier in Georgia, where he fired rounds of 69-64 to play his way into the field at Oakmont Country Club.

Ian Davis

Goal: “Probably just being a little more mentally tough, thinking my way around the course a little bit better.” Result: Ian Davis’ results in his rookie season were sporadic midway through the season, with just four cuts made in 10 events and without a top-25 finish. There’s plenty of time for a turnaround, though, because he played well enough to maintain his status inside the reshuffle.

Julian Etulain

Goal: “The short game. I did a lot of work on the short game over the offseason, 120 yards and in.” Result: Julian Etulain ranks seventh in Scrambling through 10 events, and it has led to success: all 10 cuts made, and a No. 12 position on the money list.

Zack Fischer

Goal: “Probably my attitude, just to stay positive and not be so hard on myself. It’s very difficult whenever you know that you can do better.” Result: Zack Fischer has struggled at times during the 2016 season, making just three of his first 10 cuts to stand No. 103 on the money list. But he is succeeding in maintaining an upbeat attitude, confident that things will turn around soon.

Brad Fritsch

Goal: “I would love to start better on Thursdays. My stroke average on Thursdays was terrible last year.” Result: A resounding success, with Brad Fritsch maintaining a first-round scoring average of 68.86 halfway through the season (compared to 70.84 in 2015). He stands No. 3 on the money list.

Nicholas Lindheim

Goal: “Just believing in myself and knowing that, to see all these guys graduate and get to the TOUR … obviously they’re heck of players, everybody out here is pretty darned good themselves, so just to know that I belong.” Result: It has been an up-and-down season for Nicholas Lindheim, with four cuts made in his first eight starts and a No. 64 spot on the money list. He finished T11 recently in Punta Cana, though, so things are looking up.