Lincoln, NE – Hillcrest Country Club hosted the Nebraska Section PGA’s second major of the season welcoming 18 Nebraska PGA Professionals for the 2022 National Car Rental Nebraska Assistant PGA Professional Championship. Tremendous weather led to great scoring conditions for the field and the single day 36-hole shootout was an exciting one to watch.
After the opening nine holes, the leaderboard was congested with many in the mix led by Jay Cottam, PGA of Meadowlark Hills GC and Cody Troudt of Riverside GC. Both players made the turn at 1-under before Troudt birdied No. 10 and No. 11 to gain his first lead of the day. Troudt went onto birdie No. 18 to cap off an opening round 69 (3-under) and he took a two-shot lead over Cottam into the afternoon.

The final round went off by tee times in the afternoon and after two early bogeys from Troudt, it was all square at the top of the leaderboard. After Cottom birdied No. 4 to tie the lead, he capped off the front nine with birdies on No. 8 and No. 9 and took the lead into the final nine holes. Sam Jonell, PGA of Miracle Hills Golf & Tennis was the only player in the field to eagle a hole after he did so on No. 5 and he tried to make a late run while playing alongside Troudt and Cottam.

Just when it became tighter at the top, Cottam distanced himself from the field with birdies on No. 13 and No. 16. Cottam headed to No. 18 tee with a five shot lead and he went onto win his first National Car Rental Nebraska Assistant Championship title. With the win, Cottam qualifies for the 46th National Car Rental Assistant PGA Professional Championship set for later this year.

While the Assistant PGA Professionals completed 36-holes today, 21 Nebraska Senior PGA Professionals competed and finished the first round of the 2022 Nebraska Senior PGA Professional Championship, presented by Cadillac. The final round will tee off tomorrow beginning at 8:30am and you can view the scores here. We would like to thank our title sponsor National Car Rental and our supporting sponsors Srixon/Cleveland Golf/XXIO/Asics, Rolex and PGA TOUR for helping us make this event happen.

Leaderboard

Qualifiers: 1 Alternates: 3

1 Jay Cottam
2 Cody Troudt
T3 Mitchell Klooz
T3 Sam Jonell

T5 Christian Hall
T5 Eric Kovarik
T5 Brad Bailey
T8 Nick St. Onge
T8 Chad Manes
10 Drew Seubert
11 Samuel Martin
12 Jon Robins
13 Jason Palmer
14 Brenden Miller
T15 Blake Schroeder
T15 Ryan Douglas
17 Stuart Moore
18 Jacob York

 

-5 F -4 71 68 139
-1 F +2 69 74 143
+3 F -1 76 71 147
+3 F +1 74 73 147

+5 F E 77 72 149
+5 F -1 78 71 149
+5 F +2 75 74 149
+8 F +4 76 76 152
+8 F +4 76 76 152
+12 F -1 85 71 156
+18 F +7 83 79 162
+19 F +11 80 83 163
+20 F +10 82 82 164
+21 F +10 83 82 165
+22 F +7 87 79 166
+22 F +12 82 84 166
+29 F +16 85 88 173
+50 F +21 101 93 194