Nick Flanagan Wins 2007 Xerox Classic

By winning for the third time in one year on the Nationwide Tour, Nick Flanagan earns an automatic exemption to the PGA Tour for the rest of the year, and a guaranteed card for 2008. He’ll have to wait a month though whilst the Fed-Ex cup is played out.

He becomes just the eighth player in tour history to earn an in-season PGA Tour promotion.

Gotta love this comment from him though: “The good thing about it is that I am set up for next year. I may play the rest of the year for some Christmas money. You’re not going to stop me from playing in four-and five-million-dollar events.”

Flanagan began the round seven strokes behind third round leader James Driscoll. Carding a 63 to Driscolls’ 71, Flanagan took out the tournament by a stroke.