Monday Mania

For fourth time in last 10 months, Colorado native Chris Korte Monday qualifies for PGA Tour event; this time, he’ll tee it up at Barracuda Championship

By Gary Baines – 7/15/2025

This is becoming a nice habit for Colorado native Chris Korte.

Korte, the former CGA Amateur and CGA Match Play champion who grew up in Littleton, this week Monday qualified for the PGA Tour’s Barracuda Championship, which will start Thursday in Truckee, Calif.

This comes a week after Korte Monday qualified for the Korn Ferry Tour event that was held at TPC Colorado, The Ascendant presented by Blue, where Korte double bogeyed his 36th hole to miss the cut by two.

The Barracuda will mark Korte’s fourth PGA Tour start via Monday qualifying within the last 10 months. He missed the cut in the 2024 Black Desert Championship in October and in the Farmers Insurance Open in January, but finished 16th in the Puerto Rico Open in March.

On Monday, the University of Denver alum shared medalist honors with a 6-under-par 65 at Schaffer’s Mill Golf & Lake Club in Truckee. With four spots in the Barracuda on the line, Korte made an eagle, six birdies and two bogeys.

A second player with Colorado connections almost joined Korte as a Monday qualifier, but former University of Colorado golf Dylan McDermott lost out in a four-man playoff for the final two spots.

Joining Korte in the Barracuda field will twins Jeremy and Yannik Paul, both former CU golfers. Jeremy is a rookie on the PGA Tour, while Yannik is a veteran on the DP World Tour. They previously paired for the PGA Tour’s 2025 Zurich Classic of New Orleans, a two-person team event where they missed the cut. Other players with strong Colorado ties in the Barracuda field in Truckee are Denver native Mark Hubbard and current Denver-area resident Martin Laird.

For all the scores from the Barracuda Monday qualifier, 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