WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — The scoreboard showed a lot of red Monday indicating under-par scores, and the start of The Greenbrier Classic was still three days away.

The Monday qualifier for the PGA Tour FedExCup event was held Monday on the par-72 Cobb Course at The Resort at Glade Springs in Daniels. W.Va. Dick Mast, a 59-year-old who has played on the PGA, Champions and Nationwide tours, fired a course-record tying 8-under-par 64 to take medalist honors and secure one of the four spots in the Classic scheduled Thursday through Sunday on The Greenbrier Resort’s Old White course in White Sulphur Springs.

 “If I’d known that I’d have tried harder for that last birdie,” Mast said of tying the course record held by amateur Steve Fox of Huntington. “I thought 67, 68 would be it. I made a plan and I was 5 under at the point I wanted to be. Birdies tend to smoothe out your swing. I made a lot of putts, too.”

Mast’s round featured nine birdies, a bogey and eight pars. Bob Sowards was runner-up with 66 and Alex Hamilton posted a 68 to get the third spot. Len Mattiace, David Bradshaw, Scott Griffin, Doug Dvorak and David Morland all shot 69 and went to a playoff to see who would get the final spot in the 156-player Classic field.

Bradshaw, who’s won the West Virginia Open five of the past seven years, Griffin and Dvorak all made bogeys on the first playoff hole, the par-4 10th, and headed to the parking lot to return home. Mattiace scrambled for par out of the front greenside bunker to match Morland, whose birdie putt came to rest on the edge of the hole.

The players headed to No. 18, a par-5, where Morland got home in two and Mattiace found the woods short and right of the green on his second shot and put his third from a tough lie in the bunker at the right of the green. He needed three shots to get down for six and Morland used two putts for the birdie and a chance to compete in the $6 million tournament where the winner gets $1,080,000.

Mast grew up in Lakewood, Ohio. He just moved from Florida to Forest, Va. (near Roanoke). He and his wife, Roberta, have been married 37 years. They have six boys. Jacob carried his dad’s bag Monday.

You could call Mast a journeyman. He has played in 332 PGA Tour events and finished in the top 10 of a tournament 15 times. He has competed in 130 Champions Tour tournaments with two third-place finishes. In 107 starts on the Nationwide Tour, Mast won four times.

His exempt status has expired, meaning Monday qualifiers are a must if Mast wants to continue in golf.

“This is helping me be competitive,” said Mast, who said he plans to go to PGA Tour Q-School and the Nationwide Tour qualifier as well. “It’s been tough the last two years. You are non-exempt and then you get back on.”

Before Monday’s success, Mast said he remembers coming up a shot short in seven PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour qualifiers.

 “It’s hard to play well and miss,” he said. “You get done, you feel good because you played decent and don’t make it. You’ve got to finish the deal. You can tell when someone’s done their homework on the course. I feel I can still be competitive.”

Mast plotted his strategy during practice rounds prior to the qualifier. He’ll do more of the same as he gets ready for Thursday. Old White has been renovated twice by architect Lester George. On the second visit, George added six new tees and some bunkers and stretched the par-70 course to 7,031 yards.

 “I’ve been putting strong and need to keep that going,” Mast said. “It would be nice to be in contention. I want to do something.”