McCarty, who played collegiately at Santa Clara, caught fire this summer with three wins in a six-event span, becoming the first player to earn three Korn Ferry Tour titles in a single year since Wesley Bryan in 2016. The Arizona native could’ve started his TOUR career at last week’s Procore Championship, but he stuck to the Korn Ferry Tour, intent on cementing the No. 1 spot. He finished T35 at last week’s Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, then notched his eighth top-five finish of the season this week at the Ohio State University Golf Club’s Scarlet Course. It was plenty to keep his distance on McGreevy, who finished T23 at the Nationwide, and his Korn Ferry Tour peers at large.