After long layoff, Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Brandt Jobe posts his best PGA Tour Champions finish in almost 3 years; he ties for 7th with David Duval & Justin Leonard; Wyndham Clark fails to advance to BMW Championship for the first time since 2021
By Gary Baines – 8/10/2025
When Brandt Jobe wrapped up the U.S. Senior Open on June 29 in his former home state at The Broadmoor, he was more than a bit frustrated.
The Colorado Golf Hall of Famer, a two-time winner on PGA Tour Champions, hadn’t had a top-15 finish on the Champions circuit since September 2022, which is when he had a run of four surgeries in the next two years, including a botched hip operation that lasted 5 1/2 hours.
At The Broadmoor in late June, Jobe said he was probably going to take the next five weeks off to try to figure out how to effectively compete with a changed reality in the wake of his hip surgeries.
The Kent Denver graduate did indeed take five weeks off from competitive golf. And, in his first Champions event back, Jobe finally did see some positive results.
Despite a three-putt bogey on his next-to-last hole on Sunday, Jobe finished tied for seventh at the Boeing Classic in Snoqualmie, Wash. That was his best showing in almost three years — since posting a fourth place at the Sanford International in September 2022.
Jobe, who lived in Colorado from 1970 to ’99, carded rounds of 67-72-68 for a 9-under-par total, which left him six strokes behind champion Steve Allan.
As it turned out, Jobe tied for seventh with two other golfers with significant Colorado ties — Denver-area resident David Duval and former Aspenite Justin Leonard.
Duval (67-71 and a bogey-free 69 on Sunday) recorded his best Champions showing since placing fifth in the Ally Challenge almost a year ago, while Leonard holed out from off the green for eagle on his final hole to go 68-70-69. It was the fourth top-10 of the year for Leonard, who won the Chubb Classic in February and placed second in the ISPS Handa Senior British Open late last month. Duval now has five top-10s for his Champions career.
For all the scores from the Boeing Classic, CLICK HERE.
— Playoffs End for Wyndham Clark: This late summer and early fall will look a lot different for Wyndham Clark than it has for the last few years.
For one thing, the Denver native won’t be going to the BMW Championship — the penultimate event for the FedExCup Playoffs on the PGA Tour — much less the Tour Championship. This after the Colorado Golf Hall of Famer qualified for the BMW the past three years and the Tour Championship the last two seasons, finishing third in the playoff finale in 2023 and eighth last year.
But the 2023 U.S. Open champion saw his 2025 playoffs end after just one event as he struggled over the weekend at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, placing 56th out of a field of 69 in Memphis. That dropped Clark out of the top 50 in the season-long FedExCup Playoff standings. With only the top 50 advancing to next week’s BMW Championship, he ended up 56th in the point standings after coming into the week in 49th place.
Following three straight top-12 finishes on the PGA Tour — including a fourth place at the British Open — Clark went 67-68-72-75 in Memphis.
In addition, after representing the U.S. at the Olympics, Ryder Cup and the Presidents Cup over the last two years, Clark almost certainly needed a strong playoff run to be selected for the 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup squad. He came into the week No. 17 in the U.S. Ryder Cup standings, then his showing in Memphis prevented him from making a late impression on American captain Keegan Bradley before he make his captain’s picks in a couple of weeks.
After strong 2023 and ’24 seasons in which he won three times total, including a major, and posted 15 top-10s over the two years, Clark owns just two top-10s in 2025, with a season-best of fourth place, at the British Open.
Had Clark advanced to the BMW Championship, he would have been guaranteed spots in all eight PGA Tour Signature Events in 2026.
For all the scores from the FedEx St. Jude Championship, CLICK HERE.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com