Johnny Keefer’s chances of qualifying for his first Masters next April just received a nice boost.

Keefer, this year’s Korn Ferry Tour points winner, cracked the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in his career last week, but this week’s three-spot slide showed that he’d need at least one world-ranked start to grab that top-50 exemption into Augusta National at year’s end. Enter next week’s World Wide Technology Championship, where Keefer will compete as a sponsor exemption.

While the Masters got rid of its exemptions for PGA Tour fall winners, a win for Keefer in Mexico would move him safely inside the world’s top 50.

There also are opportunities for Keefer to earn sponsor exemptions into the last two PGA Tour events of the fall, the Butterfield Bermuda Champi

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