May 29, 2024 09:50 AM | Golf
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Former West Virginia University golfers Etienne Papineau and Max Sear will play in this week's PGA Tour event taking place at the RBC Canadian Open in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Papineau, a native of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, will play in the event for the second year in a row. He also participated at the Waste Management Phoenix Open in 2022. Papineau competed at WVU from 2016-21.
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Sear, a native of Unionville, Ontario, competed in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Club in 2022. He competed at WVU from 2015-19.
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Papineau and Sear were the first and second Mountaineer golfers to qualify for a PGA Tour event as a professional since the program was reinstated in 2015. WVU Sports Hall of Fame inductee Mike Krak competed on the PGA Tour in the late 1950s.
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Former Mountaineer golfer and state amateur champion Alan Cooke was given a sponsor's exemption to play in the 2017 Greenbrier Classic, and Matt Sharpstene, who played three years at WVU, qualified for the 2021 U.S. Open and the 2023 Barbasol Championship.
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Papineau, a native of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, will play in the event for the second year in a row. He also participated at the Waste Management Phoenix Open in 2022. Papineau competed at WVU from 2016-21.
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Sear, a native of Unionville, Ontario, competed in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines Golf Club in 2022. He competed at WVU from 2015-19.
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Papineau and Sear were the first and second Mountaineer golfers to qualify for a PGA Tour event as a professional since the program was reinstated in 2015. WVU Sports Hall of Fame inductee Mike Krak competed on the PGA Tour in the late 1950s.
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Former Mountaineer golfer and state amateur champion Alan Cooke was given a sponsor's exemption to play in the 2017 Greenbrier Classic, and Matt Sharpstene, who played three years at WVU, qualified for the 2021 U.S. Open and the 2023 Barbasol Championship.
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