Regrettably for Patrick Welch, his stay at the PGA Tour’s Farmers Invitational wasn’t as long as he would have liked.
Relentlessly, Michael Thorbjornsen poured in a bucket of birdies to be granted an extended presence at the DP World’s Dubai Desert Classic.
The Division 1 collegiate standouts from New England – Welch, with ties to Providence, R.I., is a fifth-year senior at Oklahoma; Thorbjornsen, from Wellesley, Mass., is a junior at Stanford – were on different continents playing tournaments on different tours.
But they were competing at a level that is likely in their future plans.