Fort Myers golfer George McNeill is gearing up to start a new chapter in his professional golf career. The two-time winner on the PGA Tour is now joining the PGA Tour Champions, a division of the PGA Tour for golfers aged 50 and over.<\/p>\n
“Being fifty I would say it feels old but when I come out here I don’t feel so old,” said McNeill. “So young guy back on tour.”<\/p>\n
McNeill, a North Fort Myers High School graduate, will make his debut at the Chubb Classic in North Naples, close to his hometown.<\/p>\n
“I feel like I’m back at home almost,” said McNeill. “I am kind of at home being in Naples but back at home with the guys on tour that I know or recognize them.”<\/p>\n
McNeill spoke about his excitement for joining the tour and his reasons for pursuing it.<\/p>\n
“Well I’m sitting at home doing nothing so I’ve, playing out here it’s something I’ve looked forward to since I turned about 40 or 41 years old,” said McNeill. “When I kind of lost my full status on the PGA Tour, I was around forty-one or two and I was ready to take a break.”<\/p>\n
Over the past year and a half, McNeill prepared for this opportunity, ensuring he was ready to compete at the highest level.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t want to just go through the motions and play because I was in the tournament,” he said. “I want to actually compete. I want to be ready to play when it was time.”<\/p>\n
Now, McNeill is ready to represent Southwest Florida on the golf course.<\/p>\n
“I’m one of very few that are from here,” said McNeill.<\/p>\n
He added, “once I get inside the ropes, I go that’s my office. That’s my area of expertise and hopefully I can just drown out and block off all the outside noise and get back to doing basically playing tournament golf, what I do for a living.”<\/p>\n
The Chubb Classic will begin on Friday. McNeill will definitely have a cheering section when he takes the course. He’s married to WINK News Anchor Amanda Hall, who’s very excited for this moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Myers golfer George McNeill is gearing up to start a new chapter in his professional golf career.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[131],"tags":[240,866,3365],"class_list":["post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chubb","tag-chubb","tag-chubb-classic","tag-george-mcneill"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}