Korn Ferry Presents: All-Access Club Car Championship is an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look into a week on the Korn Ferry Tour in Savannah, GA. The show follows rising stars Johnny Keefer and Alistair Docherty who gave our crew all-access for the week with mics inside the ropes during play and allowed our cameras to join them post-round in practice, meals, and a Savannah Ghost Pirates hockey game where they decompress from the stress of competition trying to make it to the PGA TOUR.
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[Music] when I think of the Corn Fairy Tour I think the first name that comes into mind is probably Scotty Sheffller justin Thomas Max Helma think back to Wills Aluraus tony Feno is probably up there but hopefully my name the Cornferry Tour has never been more important than it is right now these are our stars in the making over here this week each shot will determine who follows in the footsteps of some of golf’s brightest stars at the end of the day it comes down to one shot one swing we got to fly this you got to grind out those weeks those weeks where you don’t quite have it but there’s only 20 cons available you’re just trying to find it every single day and get as much out of it as you can we’re not stopping until we reach the pinnacle of golf which is the PGA [Music] tour at stake each week on the Coronairy Tour just the opportunity to be one step closer to a lifelong dream this season it’s moved from top 30 to top 20 get their PJ tour cards 26 events and 20 cards likely some guys who win might not get it it’s really making one more putt when you’re in contention or fighting to make a cut just to get you know two four six eight points whatever it’s probably going to come down to one make cut and you know a decent weekend for the guy that finishes 20th i feel like in my head you know if I play well enough I’ll get it there’s just no quit you have to be grinding it out every single time every point matters [Music] i’m camera shy you’re camera shy no you’re not yeah very par three and a half from San Antonio Texas johnny Kefir i’m Johnny Kefir i’m from San Antonio Texas i just graduated from the PJ Tour Americas and this is my seventh event is that a gator on the bank oh yeah oh got him do I do for the shot though oh please [Music] oh that was pure that dude didn’t even flinch he’s going to be somebody that we are going to keep an eye on throughout the entire year he’s fun to watch he’s always smiling and he’s just one of the personalities that you need to see in golf i’m telling you you guys should probably play him back here your birdie ball won’t kill him [Music] from Vancouver Washington alistister Dockerty oh jeez hi my name is Alistister Doerty and I’m working my way up to get to the PGA Tour here are some snippets of my practice accomplishments and live footage from my career so far i looked like a goof the things we do to try and get noticed i’ve known about Alistair for quite a while it was tough to see him last year miss it by a shot but it seems like he’s really bounced back well he’s going to be a very mature player this year that we’re going to see at the end of the year on the PGA Tour vibes are high morning What it’s like [Music] hello Andre can you hear us we are one minute there one minute one minute 30 seconds everybody welcome to the 2025 Club Card Championship three two one rolling up music golf now in the low country Savannah Georgia this week for the Cornferryy Tour we’ve got the strongest field of the season alistister Dockerty very good read pours that in dockery trying to save par oh started it there and it never moved i felt like I hit the shots the way I wanted to but to shoot even par is pretty disgusting on my in my opinion should have been at worst two or three under johnny Kefir 24y old out of Baylor couple of pars to start then he got on a heater how about this pit shot at six stopped quickly i love watching him i love his swing i love his action i love his his personality good work good work how do I look pretty good johnny Kefir is going to be a name you’re going to want to know and follow closely 24y old out of Baylor one of the best young players in professional golf i think what makes me unique as a golfer is I don’t really identify myself as a [Music] golfer i think every guy growing up when they’re playing a lot of different sports kind of grows up and wants to be a professional athlete in something i always thought it was lacrosse and then right around 14 years old I was like you know what I want to switch my focus to golf grew up watching Ricky Fowler watching Tiger obviously on YouTube and everything so seeing them succeed and seeing how much fun they looked like they had competing I knew then that’s what I wanted to be he was so impressive last season on PJ Tour America’s had a win had four second place finishes kind of ran away with the number one spot on that tour he’s played 17 events as a professional he’s missed one cut he’s had 10 top fives and in those 10 top fives he’s had a win and five runner-up finishes i think last year prepped me really well just cuz there’s only 10 cars for the corn ferry on PJ Tour Americas and I had less amount of events that I could play so kind of going in with the mindset of just taking it one shot at a time taking it one round at a time was big by the end of the year obviously the goal is to be top 20 and get that PJ tour card kefir for the solo lead all right boy good play birdie at 17 birdie at 18 total control today way to play kid johnny you played great today seven birdies clean card 65 you’re smiling all the way around out there you having a good time yeah I mean making a lot of birdies and no bogeies is a lot of fun so I’m going to have a smile on my face great start to the week and good luck on the weekend appreciate it back to you [Laughter] guys this is pork got some chicken and then we got the fries josh Teter getting back into the winner circle in Panama came back from six shots in the final round paired them all i was in the lead for a decent amount of the day sucks i didn’t win but just having the experience of being in contention is a good start obviously Johnny playing great and continuing to play great and I’m here we are i’m trying to track him down again not this time i miss it i miss it a lot i mean I was born in Canada my parents say I came out of the womb and I put skates on even better save yes i didn’t really get into golf until I had a few injuries playing hockey you have any hockey record like Happy Gilmore no not as not as good as Happy Gilmore i got hit from behind once got a concussion i also hit somebody from behind once thrown out of the game if we’re in the area and there’s a hockey team that’s playing I’ll try and go you don’t get to do too much outside of golf so take advantage of the time that that we do have and do something fun 3 2 1 start pretty much every year there’s a story of some guy who along the way you know you miss a miss a two-footer to miss the cut or one shot better you’re in the top 20 it was been a crazy five or more years it was the start it was trying to make it right out of college i missed a lot of cuts i played very poorly i ran out of money i borderline quit two or three times alistister Dockerty now 31 years of age came within a shot of getting his PGA Tour card not once but twice last season and with that save Dockerty who shot 68 [Music] out and again Alistar’s going to come up a single shot short it’s just heartbreaking to come up one shot short again and go through all those emotions was brutal i mean there’s just no quit that’s been with me since since I was born that’s the way I was raised is there’s just no quit if you would have told me last year that I kept my cornfair card comfortably and that I was you know trending and getting better and I I would have taken it in a heartbeat alistister Doerty in this week on a sponsor’s exemption boy does he finish it off in style i was starting to run out of money again tied for second $350,000 in the in the bank i mean I’ll never forget walking through the tunnel and seeing my mom crying and I’m I’m tearing up right now it was amazing alistister Dockerty has continued to grind continue to play solid golf and you know where he sits right now by the way he sits 20th on the points list on the bubble you want to read this sure my goal this season is is not just to get my PJ tour card it’s to finish number one we were just talking about the two nines are kind of different golf courses seems like the front N’s very getable with this wind let’s go i was battling from the get-go keep going need to make a move on this Friday to have an opportunity to play the weekend being on the cut line on the corn ferry tour is stressful we got rent to pay and bills to pay if you perform right at the gut line you have a chance to win if not slamming the the clubs in the trunk and driving home there’s a lot of a lot of pressure a lot of finality that comes down to those last couple holes on Friday afternoon who’ you say shot that on the front earlier i don’t think I need to beat it that’s what I’m saying we can do it we know what we got to do i felt my prep was good just kind of got some bad breaks it’s just so bad just focus on a couple minor things flighting wedges maybe practice some balls out of divots i don’t know gave it my all and no quit battled all day almost got it done it’s close uh it’s just very frustrating [Music] a lot of fans out on a pretty Saturday in Savannah right now it’s blowing maybe 10 m an hour but throughout the round it gusts up to 30 it may switch ways a little bit here and there enough to get these guys thinking this is the 11:30 starting time first on the team Johnny Kefir [Applause] nice 90 should pitch probably if you’re kind of driving it should pitch 86 or 87 all right good shot hit it k i think it was pretty good other than for most of the day I was getting steamrololled how about Jeremy Gandon the 28-year-old Frenchman red hot in this third round and he’s just filling it up this dude’s trying what’s he at 10 he’s at 10 yeah kefir’s four under on the day and all of a sudden you’re five back it was great playing with Jeremy he had a good round it was kind of nice to feed off of kind of what he did well I guess yeah it’s like Nick Gabrellick having a solid day as well he’s six under par exciting young player he finished fifth last year in PGA Touru back in college I was a big negative guy i kind of drew the negatives more than the positives and tried to work on those but now after being out here for a year you have to be really positive even when you don’t want to be right our dad passed away the week of Columbia so we decided to take some time off over the past month or two we’ve kind of learned that there’s a lot bigger things in life than golf my boys oh my gosh so proud nick’s brother is on the bag Donnie and I can’t be more proud of them as a dad and you know as a parent because they’re just such good kids outside of the golf course it’s just the most awesome feeling I can describe that’s kind of the mindset we have right now is golf’s not the end all be all it’s our job but I mean just coming out here and having as much fun as we [Music] can clean for Nick going to be a 66 now Ganon that’s going to be a double bogey first time he has blinked today i was playing good so I was just trying to focus on shot by shot couple bat swing at the end but you know still in good position for tomorrow wild wild 65 for Jeremy Gandon jeremy good point today man good luck tomorrow if we can keep it rolling tomorrow I know I had a solid day today so if I can go out and you know kind of play my game I can I can compete we’ll run him down tomorrow it’s going to probably feel like he left a couple out there but he is only three shots back and well in contention jeremy Gandon will be out there alongside a two-time PJ tour winner ganon going to have to find that level of play in that putter that we saw the first 15 [Music] holes it is championship Sunday at the club card championship just a late afternoon Sunday those are the best in this game eighth plan of this event produced some big winners looking to crown another champion on this Sunday back right fly we’ll wedge it up there let’s have a [Music] day get through somehow i definitely think that my competitive advantage is my mind uh my mental game i think it’s definitely a strength to be able to go out on the golf course and reset almost anytime I hit a bad shot or have a bad round or have even a bad tournament i’ve gotten to the point where I can almost imagine a good shot even after a bad one so in my head this week I’ve hit zero bad shots great four i think it’s really easy for us to get caught into the trap of our entire self-worth is based on who we are and how we’re shooting and I have a lot more going for me than just golf cover there kick a little uh cover it’s always exciting you know being within a few shots of the lead coming down the stretch all right do your thing be you i got really comfortable out there understood that you know my game wasn’t perfect but I can still compete and still get after it boy your putt it’s always going to come down to a shot it’s always going to come down to what I could have done better good playing dog great week your week’s coming understanding learning and kind of growing that’s it’s really important to me continuing to put myself in these positions is uh kind of where we want to be nick Gabbrick still in the conversation little spinny should be okay I think it’s fine i’m just going to have 400 yds yeah it’s got to light up this week was pretty brutal just a lot of flighted shots a lot of kind of guessing whether the wind was going to pick up or flip midair like it was difficult but I mean I think we managed it really well let’s just get something to it gets a little passes no worries when I first started coming back playing golf it wasn’t great but this week was definitely a big momentum booster good pop good strike gym good week obviously the goal is top 20 and I think just keep getting top 10s maybe throw in a win and we’ll be in a good spot even today I kind like I struggled a little bit i didn’t have my best game and towards the end hit a few good shots the putts went in right in a heart what a putt jeremy Gandon not going away [Music] this putt to win good just crept by that right side just like last year another playoff jeremy Gandon versus Rick Lamb but a big moment here for the young Frenchman beautiful golf shot there from Gandon and he’ll have that to [Applause] win and there it is gandon the champion in Savannah i was saying earlier I mean kind of jokingly but not really you know after last year I didn’t know I would still play golf i was getting to a point where I needed something to happen and that just happened so that’s the main reason why it’s so surreal he puts himself in a fantastic position to finish in that top 20 get his PGA Tour card it’s been so fun to watch kind of the mix of players we’ve seen on this leaderboard and this is exactly what the Cornferry Tour is all about and this is what we’ve seen most of the season to this point good tournament thanks thanks for uh you know featuring me this week our 2025 Club Car Championship the Landings Golf and Athletic Club jeremy Ganon [Applause] congratulations this is uh still quite surreal to give the victorious speech right now but uh my family my wife my brother my friends that supported me yeah thank you i’m good yeah thanks [Music] impressive considering came into this season with conditional status just an incredible week for [Music] him TV thank you thank you what are you watching we are watching yeah the whole family and oh my gosh we were we were so anxious oh yeah well I was a little bit too thanks you guys for following thanks for the volunteers and uh see you later [Music]
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