Last year, Michael Brennan was a PGA TOUR Americas pro. This week, he’s playing the Masters.   Brennan qualified for the Masters by ranking inside the top 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking at the end of 2025, a year that featured a historically dominant season on PGA TOUR Americas with three wins and eight top-five finishes in 16 starts. That came on the heels of a disappointing end to his 2024 PGA TOUR Americas campaign with a final-round 74 at the Fortinet Cup Championship to finish T3 and narrowly miss a Korn Ferry Tour card.   But rather than wallowing in disappointment, Brennan used that finish as motivation to produce his best golf the next year … and it didn’t stop after the PGA TOUR Americas season.    Brennan would’ve been fully exempt on the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour, but he had other designs. He won the PGA TOUR’s Bank of Utah Championship last fall, playing on a sponsor exemption, to bypass the Korn Ferry Tour altogether and secure exempt PGA TOUR status through 2027.   That...