By james art 
(Photo Credit: Abe Arredondo-Imagn images)
Amateur Luke Clanton can provide his membership in PGA Tour by making the abbreviation this week Cognizant Classic.
But if 21-year-old Florida Junior feels some butterflies, he keeps him on his own.
“Pressure is something like a word I don’t like to use,” Clanton told reporters on Wednesday at Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Clanton has already demonstrated that he can handle his nerves while playing with professionals.
Last year, he tied to the 41st US Open at Pinehurst in June before finishing in the top 10 in the events back in Rocket Mortgage Classic (T10) and John Deere Classic (T2). He is the first amateur in 1958 with the ending of the Top 10 of the PGA Tour. Not done there, Clanton ranked fifth in the Windham and T2 championship in the RSM Classic.
So far, in 2025, Clanton has secured a pair of missed abbreviations (Sony Open and WM Phoenix Open) around the T15 of Farmers Insurance Open.
A native of the nearby hyaliah, Florida, Clanton said he was excited about the opportunity to stab her card in Florida.
– Yes, that would mean the world for sure. To do it here would be amazing. An incredible trip I guess you could say, ”he said. “But again I think I will be boring again with this answer, but only to remain focused on a single shot at a time.”
Clanton admitted that he “ahead of himself ahead of himself” in the first round of the open WM Phoenix Open earlier this month and rejected 74. He bounced 67 in the second round, including birds of four of the last eight holes, but missed the cut at 1st.
“This was not going on this week and you can look at it as a failure, but I look at it as a learning, as we always say, and again, I will just try to stay the moment I can,” he said.
“Everyone is trying to stay to make the cut, but I want to play well. I want to try to go out and play the best I can. I try to turn this way of thinking from just making a cut to try to compete in this event. “
He may be an amateur, but he is no unknown to the PGA national champion this week, deciding that he has played “probably 40 times” there.
“I’m excited to play the best golf I can,” he said. “As we say, if it’s my time, it’s my time, but we’ll see.”
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