Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. – After six rounds of golf on both the Champion and Fazio courses at PGA West, a total of 31 past and present eGolf Gateway Tour players were left with formal status on the 2015 Web.com Tour. Five eGolf Gateway Tour players finished inside the top 10, in turn securing full status through the Web.com Tour’s first three re-rankings of the upcoming year.

Leading the way for eGolf Gateway Tour players was 2010 member Brad Fritsch of Holly Springs, N.C., who paced the field with rounds of 72-64-65-65-70-66—402 en route to medalist honors at 27-under par – good for a seven-shot victory over Andrew Landry, as well as the only fully-exempt card in the field.

“I didn’t come here to shoot 27-under. I’m surprised,” said Fritsch, who collected $25,000 with his medalist honors. “I couldn’t imagine coming here and doing that.”

Fritsch, a native Canadian, spent 2013 and 2014 on the PGA TOUR, posting six top-25s and a career-best T8 at the 2014 Wyndham Championship in his adopted home state. He finished No. 151 on the TOUR’s money list this year to narrowly miss gaining conditional status for the following season.

The former Campbell University star found success on the eGolf Gateway Tour in the 2011 season, where a pair of runner-up finishes (Columbia Open and Bushnell Classic at Spring Creek) gave way to $40,391 in earnings – good for a 24th-place finish on the money list with just six starts under his belt.

Fritsch will be returning to the PGA TOUR’s developmental circuit next year for the first time since the 2012 season, where seven top-10 finishes delivered a TOUR card for the following year.

“It's a big thing (medalist),” Fritsch said earlier in the week at PGA National. “I spent the last two years worrying about it on the PGA TOUR. It'd be nice to get it out of the way. I've still got some decent status from last year on the Web.com Tour so I don't have as much pressure as some of the other guys. That's one of the reasons it's been a little easier for me this week.”

Dustin Bray

Five-time eGolf Gateway Tour winner Dustin Bray of Asheboro, N.C. will be returning to the Web.com Tour after rounds of 68-66-72-70-68-66—410 (-19) left him in solo-third place – good for exempt status until the third periodic re-order of the 2015 season.

Bray, who starred in college at the University of North Carolina, spent 2007 through 2009 on the Web.com Tour, posting four top-10 finishes, one of which was a runner-up at the 2008 Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational.

Since turning professional in 2006, however, Bray has competed mainly on the eGolf Gateway Tour, acquiring the aforementioned five wins along the way, including the 2014 Island View Casino Championship in September – the second of four events in eGolf’s inaugural Million Dollar Championship Series.

Throughout much of 2014, eGolf Gateway Tour member Seamus Power of West Waterford, Ireland stood tall as far and away the top developmental tour player in the country.

The affable 27-year-old opened his 2014 campaign with nine straight top-6 finishes, including a pair of wins at the Cowans Ford Open and the Southern Open.

Power’s dominant performance through the opening half of the year further begged the question of how and why the talented former East Tennessee State golfer had yet to ascend to the game’s higher levels. At PGA National, those questions were put to rest as rounds of 68-70-71-68-68-68—413 (-16) left him tied for fifth and in possession of Web.com Tour status for the first time in his five-year career.

The current Charlotte, N.C. resident leaves the eGolf Gateway Tour ranks with four career wins and a workmanlike 24 top-10s since the start of the 2011 season.

Justin Peters of Stuart, Fla finished T11 at PGA National thanks to a 13-under-par 416 effort on the week.

The longtime eGolf Gateway Tour member somewhat resurrected his promising career this fall with a win at the tour’s $250,000 Championship at Red Hawk in Sparks, Nev.

The win, worth a career-best $37,000 to Peters, gave the 37-year-old a bit of financial relief heading into Q-School’s second stage, where he punched his ticket into finals and in turn to the Web.com Tour.

Peters gained television fame in 2003 when he won Golf Channel’s inaugural “Big Break” series, setting in motion a 12-year career which has seen him claim over 40 mini-tour titles and twice secure Web.com Tour status – in 2010 and 2011.

Former Stanford University star Andrew Yun of Chandler, Ariz. finished T16 at 11-under par in his first trip to Q-School’s final stage.

Yun won twice in eGolf-sanctioned events in 2014, picking up career win No. 1 at the Willow Creek Open in May before winning again in the Championship at Wolf Creek in July.

Seamus Power

The Cardinal great finished his career in Palo Alto with the third-lowest scoring average in school history, trailing only Tiger Woods and 2014 Ben Hogan Award winner Patrick Rodgers.

Other players of note to finish inside the top 45 include three-time eGolf Gateway Tour winner Jhared Hack of Sanford, Fla. (T28), three-time tour winner Ted Brown of Glen Allen, Va. (T35) and 2014 tour member Matt Atkins of Aiken, S.C. (T43).

See below a list of all eGolf Gateway Tour players and their respective finishes, as well as their categories for the 2015 Web.com Tour season:

Winner and ties of the Web.com Tour Qualifying Tournament (Medalist) - exempt for the 2015 season and from periodic re-order.

Players finishing after the Winner and ties through tenth and ties position - exempt until the third periodic re-order of the 2015 season.

Players finishing after the tenth and ties position through forty-fifth and ties position - exempt until the second periodic re-order of the 2015 season.

Players after the forty-fifth and ties position - conditional status for the 2015 season, alternating with seventy-sixth through the one hundredth (76-100) positions from the Web.com Tour Regular Season Final Money list, and two through five (2-5) on the PGA TOUR Latinoamerica, PGA TOUR Canada and PGA TOUR China Final Official Money Lists.