Recently graduated Nevada men’s golfer Grant Booth has earned an exemption to play in this year’s Barracuda Championship, as announced by Chris Hoff, the Barracuda Championship Tournament Director.

The Barracuda Championship is a PGA Tour event held annually at Montreux Golf and Country Club in Reno. This year’s event will run from July 30 through August 5. This will be the first PGA Tour event of Booth’s career. He will be the first Nevada alum to compete in this event since Scott Smith participated in 2016, but is the first to play via an exemption.

Booth put together a stellar senior season that included top 20 finishes in nine of his 11 events played. In two of his last three tournaments, which included the Mountain West Championship, Booth earned back-to-back runner-up finishes. Adding to his solid finishes, Booth notched top 10 finishes in six of his 11 events.

The Australia native compiled a scoring average of 70.61, which set the single season scoring average record at Nevada. Booth, who helped the Wolf Pack reach NCAA Regionals for the first time since 2007, played his final season at 37-under par while racking up a team-best 139 birdies and four eagles. In his 33 rounds played this year, Booth recorded 23 of them under par.

He capped his time at Nevada with his name at the top of the list in career scoring average (71.86), career par or better rounds (64) and career birdies (448).

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Barracuda Championship. Television coverage can be found on the Golf Channel.