2 years ago
285
When Seamus Power was successful Las Vegas successful April, helium was grinding connected the Korn Ferry Tour astatine Paiute Golf Resort.
Six months aboriginal helium was backmost connected the people astatine the Shriners Children’s Open, but this clip helium was playing successful a featured radical arsenic a PGA Tour winner.
It was a whirlwind twelvemonth for Power, who begins 2022 this week successful Maui astatine the elite Sentry Tournament of Champions astatine Kapalua. It conscionable goes to amusement however fickle play tin be, Power said.
“That’s the quality of the athletics we’re in,” Power said. “Things tin alteration precise quickly.”
They surely did for Power, who made his mode into immoderate PGA Tour events successful the precocious outpouring and summertime and ne'er looked back. He had a spectacular run, a six-tournament agelong that included 4 top-10s and thing worse than 19th, culminating with a triumph astatine the Barbasol Championship successful July.
His satellite ranking went from 429th astatine the commencement of 2021 to 72nd to commencement 2022.
Power is beyond grateful for the opportunities play has fixed him.
“Any twelvemonth I get to play this crippled is 1 little twelvemonth I don’t person to get a existent job,” helium said. “The triumph evidently gives maine 2 afloat years (of being exempt), and that’s huge, and it gives maine the opportunities to possibly get different win.”
Guaranteed presumption and playing arsenic a PGA Tour victor besides let him to acceptable his docket weeks successful advance, thing that was ne'er the lawsuit successful the past.
“Setting your ain docket is huge,” helium said, eliminating the request to effort to Monday suffice for events oregon to spot if his presumption is bully capable to marque a field. “It’s conscionable truly nice. It’s easier due to the fact that you cognize what you person to hole for.”
Power’s emergence successful the play satellite coincides with his determination to determination to Las Vegas, a determination helium made past spring.
The autochthonal of Waterford, Ireland, Power had called Charlotte, North Carolina, location successful caller years. But with a relative successful Las Vegas arsenic good arsenic a fewer different friends, helium would travel to Southern Nevada often, helium said.
“I would sojourn astir apt 4 oregon 5 times a twelvemonth for a fewer days present and there, oregon if we were connected the West Coast I’d walk my disconnected weeks here,” helium said. “Now it’s bully to beryllium retired present permanently and person my ain spot here.”
Power has taken to the region, enjoying the hiking and different outdoor recreation disposable arsenic good arsenic the nightlife.
“There’s conscionable truthful overmuch to do, and for my docket it’s conscionable perfect,” helium said. “My disconnected days are usually Mondays and Tuesdays, and it’s bully present with everyone moving antithetic schedules there’s ever radical to bent retired with and ever things to do.”
Power has adopted TPC Summerlin and TPC Las Vegas arsenic his location courses, a perk that comes with circuit membership. The courses are a large spot to enactment connected his game. Both are conscionable minutes from his southbound Summerlin home.
Power is portion of a immense influx of circuit professionals present making their homes successful Las Vegas. At this week’s Tournament of Champions successful Maui, 4 of the 39 players successful the tract present unrecorded here: Collin Morikawa, Kevin Na, Xander Schauffele articulation Power, Former UNLV subordinate Garrick Higgo is besides successful the field.
In fact, determination are 17 players either surviving successful Southern Nevada oregon to person travel retired of UNLV with PGA Tour presumption this season, not to notation galore others connected the LPGA, PGA Champions and Korn Ferry tours.
Almost each of them notation the deficiency of authorities tax, recreation, entertainment, clime and the easiness of getting successful and retired of the metropolis arsenic reasons for the move.
Power is nary exception, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to traffic. He said helium laughs erstwhile radical deliberation it’s an contented here.
“There’s nary postulation successful Las Vegas,” helium said. “I lived successful Charlotte, and you’d walk hours of your time stuck successful traffic.”
Greg Robertson covers play for the Review-Journal. He tin beryllium reached astatine grobertson@reviewjournal.com.
English (US) ·