The former BYU -Golfer Patrick Fishburn ends at the PGA Championship – Deseret News

The way Patrick Fishburn sees was a blessing in the disguise, even if it was his third, as a result of missed cut in so many weeks, the cut was not on the PGA tour last week.

Shortly after he shot 73-74 in the Dunes Golf and Beach Club in South Carolina to miss the cut from a bunch, Fishburn grabbed his bags with his caddy, Alex “Big Al” Riddell, in a car and made the three-hour drive to Charlotte, North Carolina, for the 107th PGA champion this week in the Quail HoLow Club.

Fishburn, the former golf star of Fremont High and Byu from Ogden, plays in his first big golf championship and begins on Thursday in a place with which he was until he was left to a training round when he could have played in Myrtle Beach if he had done the cut there.

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“It is not a golf course where you want to play blindly,” he said, noticing that it was so rainy that he couldn’t go on the track.

In its second season on the PGA tour, Fishburn is on the list of PGA championship points 71st place, but only the top 70 players are guaranteed in the second major of the season. However, he got in when Billy Horschel had to withdraw after hip surgery.

“Obviously they grow up in the golf and dream of playing in the majors, so this is a dream that has become true,” said Fishburn.

The 32-year-old Fishburn is one of two Utahns on the 156-player field and occurs to the former Tony Finau, based in Salt Lake City, who will play in his 36th Major and 11th PGA championship. Fishburn and Finau, 35, played a practice round together on Tuesday.

Fishburn ends on Thursday at 5:16 a.m. with Andre Chi and Seamus Power.

Finau, who took the 18th place at the PGA championship of the last year in Valhalla in Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday at 6:33 a.m. Mdt with Nicolai Hojgaard and Max Greyserman.

“I’m so excited to play,” Fishburn told Deseret News on Tuesday. “I think this golf course is good for me. It is suitable for some of the strengths I have and enables me to play as I like to play it.”

Obviously, the 6-foot 4-Fishburn, who grew up on a horse farm outside of Ogden and was a high-school basketball star in Fremont High, before serving a two-year church mission in Nashville, Tennessee, the monstrous 7.626 yard layout at Quail Hillow PGA tour is.

“It is an incredible venue, probably the greatest quality where I played a tournament. It’s massive,” he said. “I have heard that several people say that this is closest to Augusta National that they played. I think you, what I saw. It’s a really impressive place.”

Fishburn won the amateur in Utah in 2016 and the Utah Open in 2017 before becoming a professional in 2018. He deserved his PGA Tour Card before the 2023-24 season and is currently 107th in the Fedex Cup classification and 114. In the official world golf ranking.

He had two top 10 places in the 14 events that he played in 2025, in January at the Sony Open in Hawaii in fifth place at the Valero Texas Open a month ago. Only making the cut at Par-71 Quail Hollow would be a great achievement, but it does not focus on certain results this week.

“I am more involved in the process of things than in the results. I only know that if I do certain things with every shot, I have a good feeling that it leads to something good,” he said.

Fishburn said that he has had some problems with putting in practice in the past few weeks, but believes that he recently found the problem in the practice green: a putter that has the wrong attic and the wrong lying angle.

“So that was a big deal,” he said. “Some small improvements that I made on the green have just helped in the past two days and only achieved the ball.

“I think I have the game to be on the hunt. They never really remember to win or where they will accept,” he continued. “I only know if I play as I can play. It will be good enough to be involved on Sunday, although I have no experience in majors and have no idea what can expect me.”

In order to compensate for his inexperience at Majors, Fishburn relied on his three best friends in the Golf: Finau, Zurich classic Zac Blair and Veteran PGA Tour player Daniel Summerhays, who also played Fishburn and Blair as for Byu.

Summerhay’s rehabilitated this season and will be in Charlotte this weekend to give more advice and mentoring. He took third place at the 2016 PGA championship.

“I lean very much at all of these boys. They were big mentors for me,” said Fishburn. “To ask questions and get advice is something I’ve done for many years. I was not afraid to really learn from really everyone. There is so much to learn in the Golf and I try to pay attention to how the boys approach and give them away.

Together with Summerhays, Fishburn will cheer on his parents -Steve and Peggy -and some old high school friends in North Carolina as well as his agent Rob Despain and the former Ogden Golf & Country Club -Profi Craig Sarlo.

His eight -year -old wife, Madison, cannot make the trip because she is the third child of the couple in the eighth month pregnant.

“What a proud moment for Utah and the Fishburn family,” said Despain recently about his podcast for Fishin ‘for Birdies. “It is definitely a milestone in Patrick’s career.”