So, What Happened to Ty Tryon?

Anybody remember Ty Tryon? In 2001, at the age of 16, he became the second youngest player ever to make the cut at a PGA tour event. Since then he has seemingly fallen off the face of the earth. A Google search doesn't list any recent news, and his ESPN.com page shows that he's currently tied with me in 2007 PGA tour earnings.

In November 2006, he bombed Q-School, finishing plus-17 over four rounds (10-under was needed to advance out of Round 2), and I found this from earlier this year:

And there's a once-familiar name "down among the dead men." It's Ty Tryon, the teenager who won his way on to the US PGA Tour less than a decade ago but whose game went into a spectacular decline. For the last few years he has been playing the mini-tour events, such as this one. Tryon's golf does not get any better. He had halves of 38 and 36 for a two-over-par 74. Even on mini-tours, that's not going to win a fistful of dollars.

The mini-tour event in question? The NGA Pro Tour Winter Series event at West Orange Golf Club in Winter Garden, Florida. In case there's any confusion, this is the NGA Hooters Pro Golf Tour. As in "Hooters ... you know, the place with the great 'chicken wings.'" The lesson, I guess, is stay in school kids.