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David Skinns Wins His Second Pinnacle Bank Championship

(via the Korn Ferry Tour) OMAHA, Neb. – Annually one of the most pressure-packed days in golf, the final round of the regular-season ending Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Aetna didn’t disappoint. Englishman David Skinns earned a one-stroke victory, leaping from 46th in the Korn Ferry Tour points standings to 22nd to reach the PGA TOUR. Skinns, who won the same tournament in 2018, joins 24 other graduates on Sunday evening in securing 2021-22 PGA TOUR membership.

Skinns was one of two players to move into The 25 this week, joining Austin Smotherman, who moved from 26th to 25th to receive the last PGA TOUR card.

“It’s taken a lot of years, it’s taken a lot of effort and I knew I had to win, and I knew I could win,” said an emotional Skinns after the round. “The fact that it’s happened, it’s a little surreal right now. I’m just really proud of the way I stayed with it, one shot by one shot, didn’t get ahead of myself. Every time I went into the future, I just pulled myself right back again, and that’s the thing I’m most proud of.”

Skinns, a 39-year-old University of Tennessee alum, bogeyed the par-5 15th to fall back into a three-way tie for first. Then, he immediately rebounded with a birdie at the 16th to take a one-stroke lead. At the 18th, Skinns pulled his drive into the rough on the wrong side of the cart path but was able to advance the ball near the green before getting up and down for the win.

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Pinnacle Bank Championship Presents $40,000 to Children’s Hospital & Medical Center

Five additional charities to receive donations

The Pinnacle Bank Championship Presented by Aetna announced today the tournament will present Children’s Hospital & Medical Center with a check for $40,000 at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at Children’s. Through the four years of the Championship, the event and its partner agencies have given more than $350,000 to area charities supporting such organizations as JDRF, Cystic Fibrosis and the First Tee Omaha.

“We are very grateful for this generous donation, which reflects how this incredible community rallies behind its children and its only hospital exclusively dedicated to serving children,” says Chanda Chacón, Children’s president & CEO. “Your support helps us continue to improve the lives of children through excellent clinical care, advocacy, research and education.”

“Our event is based on supporting our community through volunteer and financial support,” said Jeff Jorth, board chairman of Support Nebraska. “Providing these donations further aligns the values of the Championship and its connection to greater Omaha.”

In addition to Children’s, donations were also made to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, The First Tee-Omaha, JDRF, 22Kill, PGA Reach Nebraska and The Truck Charities, bringing the total 2020 contributions to $105,000.

The Pinnacle Bank Championship Presented by Aetna will see several major changes at its 2021 event. The Korn Ferry Tour announced earlier this month that the Championship will serve as the Tour’s Regular Season finale with 25 PGA TOUR cards being awarded after the final round of competition. The event is set to be contested August 9-15, 2021 and will have all four days aired live on the GOLF Channel.

“Even though we weren’t able to have fans at the Championship this year, we are thrilled that we can still give back to Omaha charities,” said Tournament Director, Jessica Brabec. “It’s a testament to the mission of the event and Support Nebraska that the charity aspect of our event still provides an annual impact.”

ABOUT THE PINNACLE BANK CHAMPIONSHIP
The Pinnacle Bank Championship is a stop on the PGA TOUR’s Korn Ferry Tour in Omaha, Nebraska and will be held August 9-15, 2021 at The Club at Indian Creek. The event features a purse of $750,000 and was awarded the 2018 Korn Ferry Tour’s Truck Award and 2017 Korn Ferry Tour’s Tournament Rookie of the Year Award in its inaugural year. The event is the final regular season stop and is the location where the top 25 players receive their PGA TOUR cards.

ABOUT PINNACLE BANK
Founded in 1938 in Palmer, Neb., Pinnacle Bancorp is a family-owned, Nebraska-based $14.2 billion financial holding company operating more than 150 community banks in eight states, including 66 across Nebraska. For more information, visit pinnbank.com.

ABOUT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER
Children’s Hospital & Medical Center is the only full-service, pediatric health care center in Nebraska, providing expertise in more than 50 pediatric specialty services to children across a five-state region and beyond. Children’s is home to Nebraska’s only Level IV regional Newborn Intensive Care Unit and the state’s only Level II Pediatric Trauma Center. A regional heart center, it also offers expertise in pediatric heart transplantation. Children’s is recognized as a 2020-21 Best Children’s Hospital by U.S. News & World Report in four pediatric specialties: Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Gastroenterology & GI Surgery, Pulmonology & Lung Surgery and Urology. Visit us online at ChildrensOmaha.org.

Pinnacle Bank Championship Selected to Host Korn Ferry Tour Regular Season Finale

GOLF Channel to air all four days of competition.

The Korn Ferry Tour today announced that the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Aetna will serve as the Tour’s Regular Season finale with 25 PGA TOUR cards being awarded after the final round of competition. The event is set to be contested August 9-15, 2021 with all four rounds airing live on GOLF Channel. In addition, the tournament announced a five-year extension with title sponsor Pinnacle Bank through 2025.

As the final event of the Tour’s Regular Season, the top 25 players on the Korn Ferry Tour points list following the conclusion of the final round will be awarded their PGA TOUR cards for the 2021-22 season at The Club at Indian Creek. Previous Pinnacle Bank Championship winners Sam Ryder and Kris Ventura both received their cards after winning in Omaha, and are currently competing on TOUR.

“We are thrilled to be the Regular Season finale on the 2021 schedule and for the next five years,” said Tournament Director, Jessica Brabec. “Thanks to the backing of the Support Nebraska Board, Pinnacle Bank, our community, sponsors, partners and volunteers, we have built one of the premier stops on the Tour schedule. We’re honored to continue hosting the game’s rising stars and it’s exciting to know Omaha will now be synonymous with players reaching their dreams of making the PGA TOUR.”

The Pinnacle Bank Championship also announced a five-year extension for its title sponsor, Pinnacle Bank. Pinnacle Bank has been the title sponsor since the inaugural event in 2017. The extension runs through 2025.

“Pinnacle Bank is excited to extend our title sponsorship of the Pinnacle Bank Championship for an additional five years, through the 2025 event,” said Pinnacle Bank President, Marc Hock. “We are proud to keep this event in Omaha and to continue to benefit local charities and our community.”

GOLF Channel, the PGA TOUR’s official television partner for the Korn Ferry Tour, will broadcast all four days of the Championship starting in 2021.

“Indian Creek has proven to be a challenging course and we look forward to seeing the best on the Korn Ferry Tour contend for their PGA TOUR cards,” said course co-owner, Bill Gottsch. “We’re excited to show off the course nationally.”

The Championship and its placement on national television is not only the bookend for the Korn Ferry Tour, but also for an exciting summer in Omaha. The postponed NCAA Volleyball Championship will be played and on national television in April, followed by the College World Series, USA Olympic Swim Trials and the U.S. Senior Open.

Next week, the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Aetna and Support Nebraska are awarding a donation to their benefitting charity, Children’s Hospital Foundation

ABOUT THE PINNACLE BANK CHAMPIONSHIP
The Pinnacle Bank Championship is a stop on the PGA TOUR’s Korn Ferry Tour in Omaha, Nebraska and will be held August 9-15, 2021 at The Club at Indian Creek. The event features a purse of $750,000 and was awarded the 2018 Korn Ferry Tour’s Truck Award and 2017 Korn Ferry Tour’s Tournament Rookie of the Year Award in its inaugural year. The event is the final regular-season stop and is the location where the top 25 players receive their PGA TOUR cards.

ABOUT PINNACLE BANK
Founded in 1938 in Palmer, Neb., Pinnacle Bancorp is a family-owned, Nebraska-based $14.2 billion financial holding company operating more than 150 community banks in eight states, including 66 across Nebraska. For more information, visit pinnbank.com.

Seth Reeves Wins the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Aetna

August 02, 2020
By Sean Wildhack, PGATOUR.COM

OMAHA, Nebraska – Spurred by a final-round 64, Seth Reeves erased an eight-stroke deficit to capture his first Korn Ferry Tour title at the Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Aetna, finishing the week at 11-under 273.

“I fist pumped my birdie putt on No. 18 because I thought it secured a top-10,” Reeves said after his win became official. “I’m just kind of shocked, really.”

Reeves, who teed off more than two hours before the final group, dropped a shot with an early bogey on the par-4 third. Despite the setback, the Georgia Tech product rebounded with birdies on Nos. 4, 6 and 7 to get back to 6-under for the week.

As Reeves made his way to the back nine, 54-hole leader Ryan Ruffels began his final round. Ruffels struggled early carding back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 2 and 3. Despite the early struggles, he followed a birdie on the par-5 fourth with an eagle at the par-5 seventh and regained the solo-lead at 13-under.

Reeves caught fire on the back nine and continued his climb up the leaderboard. After birdies on Nos. 10 and 11, the 29-year-old recorded an eagle on the par-5 15th, moving him to 10-under for the week. On his 72nd hole, Reeves made his sixth birdie of the day to post 11-under and take the clubhouse lead.

“I started realizing it was close when I was tied for the lead and the last group only had two holes to play,” Reeves said. “I just was just kind of like, ‘Wow this could actually happen.’”

After the eagle, Ruffels gave a stroke back with a bogey on the par-3 eighth. The Australian tallied another birdie at the par-4 10th to get back to 13-under, but quickly gave two strokes back with bogeys on Nos. 11 and 13. Entering his final stretch of holes, Ruffels carded a birdie on the par-5 15th to regain the lead at 12-under.

As Reeves began to warm up on the range for a potential playoff, Ruffels carded back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 16 and 17, giving Reeves the solo-lead at 11-under. On his 72nd hole, Ruffels’ lengthy birdie attempt narrowly missed, securing Reeves’ first Korn Ferry Tour title.

“I didn’t think I was going to get it done,” he said. “I decided to come back out here and warm up like normal and was shocked that I had the lead with one hole to be played in the tournament. It went the opposite of how I thought, I’m still shocked.”

After earning his PGA TOUR card through the 2018 Korn Ferry Tour Finals, Reeves struggled as a rookie on TOUR. In 25 TOUR starts, Reeves made 11 cuts but failed to retain his card.

After returning to the Korn Ferry Tour this season, his struggles continued. Prior to his victory, Reeves had made only three cuts in 11 starts this season and entered the week ranked No. 135 on the points list. With his win on Sunday, Reeves jumped 117 spots to No. 18 on the points list.

“I finished dead-last two weeks ago. It’s been hard, I’ve been in kind of a dark place with my game and trying to figure out how to play to my abilities,” Reeves said. “When you struggle as much as I have, you have all those doubts. This tells me I can do it. If I can do it once, I can do it again.”

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Tournament Week Details

On-site Credentialed Media Access

  • All media members will be provided tournament-specific credentials that should be worn at all times.
  • If you are a season-long credential holder and approved to attend the Pinnacle Bank Championship, you should wear your
  • PGA TOUR-issued credential in addition to your tournament credential; however, credentialed media will NOT have access to:
    • Practice areas;
    • Locker room;
    • Clubhouse or player parking lot;
    • Inside the ropes; there will be no rope and stake at Pinnacle Bank Championship, so media members are required to walk on the cart path at all times; with no spectators on the course, this will still provide media with a clear view of the competition.
  • Media credentials are non-transferable to others from the designee’s media outlet without prior approval.
  • On a space-available basis, credentialed media will receive their own workspace designated for the entire week; workspaces may not be rotated or transferred during the week (i.e. no “hot desks”).

Player Interviews

  • All interviews will be facilitated by Korn Ferry Tour Media Officials; media is prohibited from approaching players on their own.
  • Player interviews will take place virtually or in the Flash Area ONLY; access to the Flash Area will be extremely limited and determined by Korn Ferry Tour Media Officials (i.e. an on-site media credential does not guarantee Flash Area access).
  • When applicable, interviews may be facilitated by phone calls between a player and media member, to be coordinated by media official. Zoom and/or Teams interviews may also be used in instances when the Flash Area is not a possibility (inclement weather, etc.).
  • The Korn Ferry Tour will provide a pool reporter and at times a pool camera in the Flash Area; interview audio, video and transcripts will be available for download in the Virtual Media Center.

Media Center Operations

  • The Media Center will be open Tuesday through Sunday.
  • Media dining will be grab-and-go meals and beverages, with hygiene protocols in place; there will not be seating in a specific dining area; meals will be eaten at personal workspaces or outdoors.
  • The media center will not offer lockers for equipment storage. Parking is available in the clubhouse lot.
  • Printed materials will not be available; all tournament information (pairings, notes, tee times, etc.) will be available electronically.
  • The flash area will be located outside the clubhouse near player scoring.

Virtual Media Center
To assist media who will not have on-site access to cover the season resumption, the PGA TOUR has created a Virtual Media Center. All media regulations remain in place. Approved media will have access to the PGA TOUR Virtual Media Center, which will include assets such as:

  • Daily pairings, hole locations, tournament notes;
  • Stats reports;
  • Interview transcripts when available;
  • Complimentary photos, audio (MP3s) and video (b-roll, competition highlights, player interviews) for use, per PGA TOUR Media Regulations.

Nebraska Section PGA Youth Day

Join us live, Tuesday, July 28 at 10:00 am (CT) for this year’s Nebraska Section PGA Youth Day. As we continue to ensure a safe environment for the community, fans, players and tournament staff, this year’s event will be held virtually.

We are fortunate to be able to support the youth in the Omaha region and know this event will help continue to drive good until we can invite the area youth back in 2021.

Need an activity for the kids before signing on to watch the live event!? Click here to download our activity sheet, including crosswords, word search and more.

Qualifiers Selected for Pinnacle Bank Championship

Nebraskan Carson Schaake among qualifiers to earn a spot in Korn Ferry Tour Stop

Three golfers — including one from Omaha — will play in the PGA TOUR’s 2020 Korn Ferry Tour Pinnacle Bank Championship July 27-August 2 and compete for a share of the $600,000 purse.

Will Grimmer, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, who turned pro in 2019 and Wisconsin native Jordan Niebrugge who broke Bobby Jones’ record for the lowest score by an amateur at the Open Championship in 2015 have earned two of the spots in the 2020 Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Aetna and hosted at The Club at Indian Creek. Grimmer and Niebrugge are the restricted qualifiers selected by the Pinnacle Bank Championship board of directors.

Omahan Carson Schaake, a graduate of Creighton Prep who played his collegiate career at University of Iowa, earned his spot by winning the Nebraska Qualifier on July 2, 2020 played at ArborLinks. He shot a 10-under, 134 to edge 2019 Pinnacle Bank Championship qualifiers Ryan Vermeer and Luke Kluver, who finished tied for second place at 7-under-par.

Grimmer is a graduate of The Ohio State University, during which time he represented the U.S. on the Arnold Palmer Cup Team. He has 13 USGA Championships, which were highlighted by two US Open appearances with a made cut at Shinnecock Hills in 2018. He also competed at The Memorial on the PGA Tour last year on a sponsor’s exemption.

Niebrugge earned his Korn Ferry Tour status after a 2016-2017 season highlighted by a top 10 finish on the Mackenzie Tour Order of Merit where he had two runner-up finishes and a T35 finish at the 2017 US Open in Wisconsin. He played collegiate golf at Oklahoma State, finishing his amateur career as the fifth ranked amateur in the world, and was a Byron Nelson finalist.

The Championship’s other unrestricted exemption will be awarded to the winner of the Indian Creek Invitational this Sunday, July 12.

Pinnacle Bank Championship Media Day

The Pinnacle Bank Championship announced the rules that will be followed while covering the 2020 Championship, scheduled for July 30 – August 2.

The PGA TOUR has developed a Media Operations plan which will provide media the opportunity to cover the Pinnacle Bank Championship, while also taking into consideration the protocols necessary to all for the Tour’s return in a safe and responsible manner.

Exemptions for the 2020 Championship will be announced at a later date.

The Championship is also announcing that this year’s benefitting charity will be Children’s Hospital & Medical Center. The Championship has given more than $252,000 to area charities supporting such organizations as Make-a-Wish Nebraska, The Lane Thomas Foundation, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and TeamMates Mentoring Program, which has been the tournament’s benefactor as its charitable partner since 2017.

“We are grateful to Pinnacle Bank and all who support and enjoy the Pinnacle Bank Championship, which will benefit Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in 2020,” said Beth Greiner, Executive Director of Children’s Foundation. “As the only full-service, pediatric health care center in Nebraska, all funds raised will benefit the health – and improve the lives – of our region’s children.”

As was announced on Monday, June 15, the Championship will be played without spectators. The decision was made in accordance with and recommendations from local, state and federal government agencies tasked with ensuring the safety of those essential to conducting the tournament. While some of those restrictions have been loosened in recent days, multiple options were vetted before making our decision, it would be difficult to change course at this point in time.

Questions submitted by members of the media to Kris Ventura, 2019 Pinnacle Bank Champion, are can be found the media page (password: pinnacle).