Jackson Koivun won’t be a full-time PGA Tour member until at least next summer, but the 20-year-old amateur has spent this summer getting acquainted with his future tour. The Auburn star, who has already earned his PGA Tour card through PGA Tour University Accelerated, has played in six PGA Tour events this season and made five cuts, including a T6 finish at the ISCO Championship and a T11 at the John Deere Classic.
Koivun skipped the Western Amateur this week in favor of teeing it up in the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina, which is the PGA Tour’s regular-season finale before the FedEx Cup Playoffs start next week in Memphis.
Koivun made the cut and then fired a five-under 65 on Saturday to move inside the top 10 on the leaderboard. But with so many in the field scratching and clawing to find a way inside the top 70 to extend their season, Koivun is seeing a different side of Tour life in Greensboro — the desperate side…