The final stretch of the Korn Ferry Tour season carries enormous pressure. Dreams hang in the balance. Every shot matters when PGA Tour cards are on the line. However, one golfer’s bold prediction six weeks earlier was about to change everything at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship.

John VanDerLaan stepped off the 18th green at Ohio State University’s Scarlet Course with tears in his eyes. His wife , Hannah, was crying too. The 29-year-old from Connecticut had just fulfilled a promise that seemed impossible after 141 unsuccessful attempts. “ We did it. I told you ,” he said in his emotional Instagram video. “ I told Hannah, my wife, after the last six-week stretch, where I played some really good golf, that I was going to win one of these last four. “

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