Education
He also played the Professional Golf Association Tour Qualifying school in a move to try and earn playing privileges, but finished way down the field outside the top 100.
He also played the Professional Golf Association Tour Qualifying school in a move to try and earn playing privileges, but finished way down the field outside the top 100.
Lingmerth played college golf at the University of West Florida (one year) and the University of Arkansas (three years) where he was a two-time All-American. Lingmerth played on the Web.com Tour during the 2011 season. He had some success with two third-place finishes and five top-10s but missed out on earning his Professional Golf Association Tour card by two spots on the season-ending money list, finishing 27th.
The top 25 advanced to the Professional Golf Association Tour.
Lingmerth ended the season ranked 10th on the money list, which earned him his Professional Golf Association Tour card for the 2013 season. In only his second career start on the Professional Golf Association Tour, Lingmerth finished as a joint runner-up at the Humana Challenge after losing in a three-man playoff.
He shot a 10-under-par round of 62 in the final round to get into the playoff alongside Brian Gay and Charles Howell III. He was eliminated at the first extra hole after finding the water with his second shot to the par-5 18th hole. Lingmerth also led the 2013 Players Championship in the third round, finishing T2, two strokes behind Tiger Woods.
He finished his rookie season in 75th place, to retain his card for 2014.
In 2014 however, he finished the season in 134th place, resulting in a visit to the Web.com Tour Finals. There he finished in 8th place, earning a return to the Professional Golf Association Tour. In January 2016, Lingmerth lost in a sudden-death playoff to Jason Dufner at the CareerBuilder Challenge.
This was the second time that Lingmerth had lost in a playoff at the event, following his runner up finish to Brian Gay in 2013.
He lost on the second extra hole after hooking his second shot into the water at the 18th and had earlier had a putt for the victory from 20 feet on the first playoff hole. Despite this, the result moved Lingmerth into the top 50 in the world rankings.
2002 Skandia Tour Elite Boys 15 Professional Golf Association Tour wins (1) Web.com Tour wins (1) DNP = Did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" indicates a tie for a place Yellow background for top-10 Amateur Palmer Cup (representing Europe): 2010.