WinCo Foods Portland Open sends 25 players to PGA Tour

Veteran Web.com Tour player Dicky Pride, riding a late-season wave of momentum, carded a final round 4-under 67 to win the WinCo Foods Portland Open and earn his PGA Tour card for the 2015-16 season. Pride, who led by four shots entering the final round at the Witch Hollow course at Pumpkin Ridge, finished at 20-under 264, three strokes in front of four-time PGA Tour winner Tim “Lumpy” Herron (66) and four ahead of a late surging Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey (65), also a former PGA Tour winner.

Pride’s only other career title came in his rookie season on the PGA Tour at the 1994 FedEx St. Jude Classic.

Pride collected a check for $144,000 in the Tour’s final regular season event and vaulted from No. 40 to No. 5 on the Web.com Tour’s money list. The Top-25 money winners earned 2015-2016 PGA Tour cards.

The WinCo Foods Portland Open was the final event of 21 regular season events on the 2015 Web.com Tour schedule. At the conclusion of play, the Top-25 money winners for the season were presented with their PGA Tour cards during a special ceremony on the 18th green at Witch Hollow. Just six weeks after the WinCo Foods Portland Open, these Web.com Tour graduates will now be playing on golf’s biggest stage beginning with the Frys.com Open Oct. 15-18.

Pride was not the only winner after a fantastic week at Pumpkin Ridge. The tournament announced that the event generated $1,115,000 for local charities, the second-highest charitable outcome on the 2015 Web.com Tour.