Brandon Matthews picked up his first win on the Minor League Golf Tour earlier this month.
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Brandon Matthews had to wait nearly six weeks between the end of the PGA Tour’s LOCALiQ Series and the Series Championship.
The Country Club of Scranton member put that time to good use.
The 26-year-old from Dupont, now playing professionally out of Jupiter, Fla., posted his first-ever win on the Minor League Golf Tour earlier this month.
Matthews picked up the $10,464 first prize for shooting rounds of 69 and 71 for an even-par, 140 Nov. 2-3 at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
The MLGT appearance was the 15th by Matthews over the past four years, which have also included time on the Korn Ferry Tour, the PGA Tour Latinoamerica and one appearance earlier this year on the main PGA Tour.
Matthews won by one stroke over three players – Chris Wiatr from Waterbury, Conn., Domenic Geminiani from Italy and Leandro Marelli from Casilda, Argentina.
The biggest win for Matthews came on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica.
With the Latinoamerica and other PGA International Tour schedules largely wiped out by the coronavirus pandemic this year, the PGA Tour created the LOCALiQ series, seven, 54-hole events across Florida, Alabama and Georgia.
Matthews made it through the LocaliQ Series – and what was originally billed as The Race To The Bahamas – to make the 72-hole LOCALiQ Series Championship. That event had to be moved out of The Bahamas and delayed because of the coronavirus. It began Tuesday at TPC Sugarloaf in Duluth, Ga. And will continue through Friday.
During the series, Matthews made four of seven cuts to finish 37th on the points list where the top 78 made the championship. Two of his missed cuts came by a single stroke. The best finish for Matthews was a tie for ninth at the Alpharetta Classic.
Matthews won a PIAA state championship as a junior at Pittston Area in 2010. He went on to win several college tournaments during his career at Temple University.
