Where Are They Now?

Yesterday's post about the AT&T National Pro-Am's expanded field made everyone at The Tour Review nostalgic and weepy. We yearn for the days when Brandel Chamblee was burning up the fairways. Kidding aside, it is always interesting to find out what some of yesterday's golf newsmakers are currently doing.

• Benoit Beisser: One of last year's contestants on Big Break: Mesquite is lighting it up on the Gateway Desert tour. After two events in 2008, Benoit is the leading money winner with earnings over $26,000. Congrats Benoit!
• Casey Martin: Since the fall of 2006, Martin has coached the University of Oregon golf team. He had hoped to continue to play some mini-tour events; but since taking the coaching reigns, he has not competed in either Nationwide events or Q-School events. Go Ducks.
• Ty Tryon: Tryon become the poster child for "too much, too soon" after he turned pro at the age of sixteen in 2001. He made his first cut at the Honda Classic in March 2001, but did not keep his card. Since that time, he has bumped around various mini-tours, most recently the Gateway Tour. In 2007, he made 5 cuts in 25 Gateway events and earned $5,600. He competed in the 2007 Q-School, but did not earn his card.