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Pierceson Coody now has two victories in less than a calendar year on the Korn Ferry Tour.
They couldn’t be more different.
Last June, Coody was just three starts into his professional career after leading Texas to the NCAA Championship when he won the Live and Work in Maine Open comfortably, firing a second-round 62 and eventually winning by five.
Sunday’s triumph at the Panama Championship was a fight, with Coody 1 over through 54 holes on a punishing Panama Golf Club layout before orchestrating a closing 4-under 66 and then birdieing the first playoff hole against Sam Saunders and fellow U.S. Walker Cup teammate Mac Meissner.
“This one’s really sweet,” Coody said. “Maine was incredible to get the first pro win; I don’t want to say it felt easy, but it was almost like an out-of-body experience the way I started, and I just was kind of cruising on the back nine. This, the whole time I was chasing, I was hoping things would go my way and luckily, they did.”
Coody’s toughness had something to do with the outcome as well. In a tournament where the same number of players (seven) finished under par that made the cut yet ended up 9 over or worse, Coody was well equipped to handle the difficulty. As an amateur, he won the Western Amateur, the most grueling event in the sport. He also is a member at Maridoe Golf Club, a beast of a course in Dallas.
And he’s now successfully overcome not one but two major injuries in his young career.
First was the broken right arm – specifically a right radial-head fracture – midway through his senior year of college. Coody missed just four events and in his first start back won the Augusta Haskins Award Invitational by six shots. He was runner-up the following event, too, at the Western Intercollegiate on a diabolical Pasatiempo.
More recently was the broken hamate bone in his left hand. Prior to the injury, Coody had just missed earning his PGA Tour card via KFT regular-season points (No. 32) in his abbreviated debut…
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