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Three Gutschewskis meet at Korn Ferry Tour event

Three Gutschewskis meet at Korn Ferry Tour event

Amy Gutschewski won’t have to make tough decisions about which group to follow in the first two rounds of the Korn Ferry Tour’s Pinnacle Bank Championship, partly because the PGA Tour’s development circuit has made it easy for her by bringing her husband, Scott, and sons Luke and Trevor together for games on Thursday and Friday.

Scott, or “Gootch,” as he’s affectionately known, is a 47-year-old pro who has been a PGA Tour member for 10 years — 3,626 days to be exact — between starts. He was supposed to be in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Tour’s Wyndham Championship, but he was far enough down the alternate list that he decided to play his first Korn Ferry Tour event of the year in his home state of Nebraska. Scott has made just four of 16 cuts in the majors this season, and even a victory at Wyndham wouldn’t earn him a spot in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, which begin next week.

Luke, a rising junior at Iowa State, won the Nebraska Junior Amateur in 2020 and was one of six first-round co-leaders and four co-medalists at the 122nd U.S. Amateur Championship at Ridgewood Golf Club in 2022. His younger brother, Trevor, won the U.S. Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills last month. The brothers are making their debut in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event in their hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, with their father in the 9:57 group at No. 10.

Luke has occasionally served as Scott’s carrier over the years, including several at a Korn Ferry event in North Carolina a few years ago.

Meanwhile, Scott and Amy’s daughter Isabelle attends the University of Nebraska and is part of the PGA Golf Management program. But what about their youngest, Isaiah? He’s only eight, but he’s inherited the family’s passion for golf. “And just like that, another one’s on the hook,” Amy wrote on Twitter two years ago after Isaiah made birdie on the first hole of his first tournament.

The family relationship within the game is only getting better, and for Scott, a three-time Korn Ferry Tour champion, there’s nothing better than the chance to play in a professional event with his sons.

“I thought Luke and I might cross paths at some point depending on how long I can walk and everything, but yeah, Trevor (playing together at a Tour event) was definitely a big surprise,” Scott told Omaha’s CBS affiliate KMTV.