Roger Sloan cashed in on Sunday.
The 31-year-old golfer from Merritt placed tied for second at the Puerto Rico Open, the best finish of his PGA Tour career, and earned a paycheque for $198,000.
Sloan birdied the 17th and 18th holes for a final-round 67, finishing the tournament at 12-under-par, along with Daniel Berger, Johnson Wagner and Aaron Baddeley.
Martin Trainer won the first-place prize of $540,000 with a final score of 15-under-par.
Sloan, who finished 2018 with an Official World Golf Ranking of 474th, moved up to 280th on Monday morning. He is 81st in FedExCup Standings, 17 places ahead of Tiger Woods.
The top-10 finish on the weekend made Sloan eligible to play in the Honda Classic, which gets underway on Thursday at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
The Honda Classic has a prize purse of $6.8 million, with a winner’s share of $1,224,000.
Sloan has earned $367,892 after 10 events this season.
