Catch him if they can
Happy to be home after hectic season on the PGA’s Latin America tour
Everyone chasing Beau Titsworth going into West Penn final round.
Perhaps more than any of the other golfers Wednesday at Valley Brook Country Club, there is a comfort to playing in Western Pennsylvania for Daniel Obremski.
That’s because the Penn- Trafford alumnus spent the first half of this year playing south of the U. S. border in the PGA Tour Latinoamerica, competing in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic.
“It’s very different, but there’s a lot of really good things,” Obremski said after the second round of the WPGA Open Championship. “The competition’s amazing. If you play well, you’re going to move up. It’s very difficult to travel, but the good thing is it’s preparing you for the PGA Tour.”
The PGA Latinoamerica season runs from January to June, takes a break for the summer, then picks back up again when the weather cools down.
In the meantime, Obremski is back in Pennsylvania, keeping his game sharp playing in WPGA events.
So far this week, at the WPGA Open Championship, his game has been just that: sharp. Obremski shot rounds of 4- under 68 on Tuesday and Wednesday and is in third place — five shots back of leader as he was often Beau Titsworth, who had an alternate. So he didn’t 10 birdies in a courserecord exactly know if he was going round of 62 to overtake to have to travel to an the first- round leaders event until the last minute. — heading into Thursday’s On one occasion, final round. Obremski played in an
Really, though, event in Chile, and his finish Obremski is enjoying the qualified him for the chance to live and play at next tournament in the Dominican home. Republic. Without
“I love it,” Obremski knowing he was going said. “I just like being able to be in that Dominican to practice at Hannastown event, he hadn’t booked [ Golf Club], Totteridge, travel plans yet. where I can spend a day It resulted in a $ 1,500 and practice and play, and flight that took 23 hours, I don’t have to feel like I’m with plenty of layovers, infringing on somebody at plus some driving. He traveled these random courses.” all day Monday, took a
Obremski can appreciate day off to rest Tuesday and the current time of relative then played in the tournament relaxation, because beginning Thursday. the travel in the PGA Tour “The difficult part for Latinoamerica truly is me was the first half of the brutal. year, I didn’t know [ if I was
In the first half of the going to play in an event]. I season, Obremski had to was right on the bubble.” fight his way into tournaments, Obremski said. “The first
event, I didn’t get in. Didn’t get in the second event. Monday qualified into the third event, and then I made some cuts, and now I have full status for next season.”
Obremski will head back south when the Latinoamerica Tour starts back up. It will likely be a bit less strenuous when he returns, since his newly earned, full- time status on the tour means he will likely have a more regular schedule — or at least a better idea of where he’ll need to travel next.
This time at home is enough to make him wish he could stay here permanently, though. Obremski recognizes it isn’t that simple.
“I like it here better,” Obremski said. “I would love to just stay here, but … right now it’s what I’ve got to do.”