Q School final is next up for seniors

There are an assortment of names who’ll stir memories of yesteryear when you peruse the field for next week’s (Dec. 6-9) final stage of the PGA Tour Champions Qualifying Tournament. Two who made headlines at PGA Championships (Bob May lost in a playoff to Tiger Woods in 2000; Shaun Micheel was a stunning winner in 2003) will tee it up and so, too, will former PGA Tour winners Jason Bohn, Olin Browne, Matt Gogel, Jonathan Kaye, Harrison Frazar, Gabriel Hjertstedt, and Dicky Pride. Brandel Chamblee is another former PGA Tour winner who’ll be there, though he clearly made a bigger name for himself as an esteemed TV commentator for The Golf Channel. Also scheduled to play at TPC Scottsdale’s Champions Course will be Harrison Frazar, Thomas Levet, and Charlie Wi.

Not that the field will be lacking any sort of local flavor, because New Englanders have earned their way there. Fran Quinn of Holden, Mass.; Patrick Sheehan of Warwick, R.I.; and Connecticut native Bobby Gage – each of whom played on the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry Tour – are entered. So, too, is Mark Brown, who was born in Milton, Mass., and was a head professional for years at Tam O’Shanter on Long Island.