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He finished 113th on the money list and retained his Tour card for the following year.
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John Maginnes
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Maginnes joined the Nationwide Tour in 1994. In his rookie year on Tour he came close to winning the Buick Challenge but lost in a playoff to Michael Bradley. He didn"t play well enough in 1997 to retain his Tour card so he split time between the Professional Golf Association and Nationwide Tour in 1998, picking up a victory at the NIKE Dakota Dunes Open on the Nationwide Tour.
He finished fifth on the money list that year, earning him his Professional Golf Association Tour card for 1999.
In 1999 he recorded four top-10 finishes en route to finishing 93rd on the money list, his best finish of his career. In 2002 he went through qualifying school for the second time to earn his Professional Golf Association Tour card for 2003.
He didn"t have a good year on Tour and had to go through qualifying school for the third time to retain his Tour card. He injured his elbow in 2004 and played on a medical exemption in 2005, his final year on Tour.
While injured in 2004, Maginnes began to work as an on course commentator for the United States of America Network.
In 2005 he began to work on XM Radio. He has worked for United States of America Network, Golf Channel, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Digital, Sirius XM and many others He cohosts Katrek and Maginnes on Tap on SiriusXM Radio weeknights in the evening drive slot.
The show previously known as Maginnes on Tap has aired since early 2011.
He also does work for the Back 9 Network hosting the Clubhouse weeknights. Nationwide Tour wins (3) 1995 NIKE San Jose Open DNP = Did not play CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" = tied Yellow background for top-10.
