Lilac winner trying to drive his game into the fast lane

With no traffic in the rearview mirror, Derek Barron was able to concentrate on the road ahead.

And for the 31-year-old 2016 Lilac City Invitational champion, that journey is hopefully playing more on weekends. Not in front of a handful of spectators - although he relishes playing in front of family and friends - but rather crowded galleries and television cameras on the PGA Tour.

The $8,000 he won last Sunday will help pave that path.

Barron's now on an old-fashioned barnstorming tour and headed to Iowa this week and then Denver, among other tournament stops.

"This month is all tournaments, I...