Two gamers on the Korn Ferry Tour have been suspended for playing on PGA Tour occasions, the tour introduced Friday.
Vince India and Jake Staiano positioned bets on PGA Tour tournaments, per the discharge. Neither participant put a wager on a match through which they had been competing.
The 34-year-old India has been suspended for six months, that means he can’t take part in any PGA Tour-sanctioned occasions till Mar. 17, 2024. The suspension is retroactively enforced from Sept. 18, 2023.
India struggled all through the 2023 Korn Ferry season, lacking 11 cuts. He earned simply $60,992 within the 22 occasions he performed in. He additionally withdrew from the Worth Cutter Charity Championship offered by Dr Pepper in mid-July.
India’s finest end this season was a tie for twenty first, which occurred twice: on the Bahamas Nice Exuma Traditional at Sandals Emerald Bay and the NV5 Invitational offered by Outdated Nationwide Financial institution.
In the meantime, Staiano, who’s 26 years outdated, has been suspended for 3 months. Equally, his suspension started on Sept. 11, 2023, and can proceed by way of Dec. 11, 2023.
Staiano additionally struggled this yr, taking part in simply eight occasions on the Korn Ferry Tour whereas making solely three cuts. He took dwelling $21,210 in 2023. The previous Colorado State Ram’s finest end got here on the BMW Charity Professional-Am offered by TD SYNNEX, the place he tied for nineteenth.
The PGA Tour additionally introduced that it’ll not remark additional on this matter.
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