Rayhan Thomas should’ve still been in Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday evening. Instead, the 25-year-old Korn Ferry Tour was back in Stillwater, Oklahoma, having just completed the nearly seven-hour drive home.
Thomas had hung around The Club at Indian Creek all Thursday, waiting to see if he’d earn entry into the Pinnacle Bank Championship as an alternate.
That call, mistakenly, never came.
In what the Korn Ferry Tour is calling an “unfortunate error,” M.J. Daffue gained access into the field for the penultimate event of the KFT’s regular season via an incorrect category. So, when Scott Gutschewski withdrew before his first-round tee time, that opening was given to first alternate Runchanapong Youprayong, the Thai rookie who should’ve already been in. Thomas was next on the alternate list be