LAS VEGAS, Nev. — It’s been quite a year on the golf course for Joe Boros.

The Saxonburg resident and longtime Director of Golf at Treesdale Golf & Country Club qualified for the 2016 Senior PGA Championship Sunday by finishing among the top 35 at the Senior PGA Professionals National Championship in Seaside, Calif.

Boros, 53, wasn’t even expecting to play in that event.

“I was the first alternate coming out of our Tri-State PGA section qualifier,” he said. “The top five golfers qualified and I just missed.

“I didn’t find out until three weeks ago that I was getting a spot in the tournament.”

Boros was in California earlier this year, having qualified for the PGA Senior Open in June. He did not make the cut after the first two rounds there.

He had to win a playoff Sunday to qualify for the Senior PGA Championship. Boros carded a 1-over par 272 for his four rounds over the weekend — shooting 70-72-75-72 — and finished in a tie for 33rd.

John DalCorobbo of Indianapolis shot an 11-under 277 to win the Senior PGA Professional event. Boros finished 12 strokes back.

“Going into the final round, I knew I had to approach the course record of 62 to have a shot at winning it,” Boros said. “But I was in the mix to advance to the Senior PGA for the first time.

“My rounds out there were just steady. I wasn’t getting birdies, but I was making pars. The hole that got me was the 9th. I bogeyed that hole every day. It was an uphill shot from the fairway and I didn’t gauge the wind very well.”

Everything else worked out for him.

Just making the cut midway through the Senior PGA Professional event was an accomplishment. There were 253 golfers in the tournament and only 70 survived to play Saturday and Sunday.

Finishing in a four-way tie for 33rd Sunday, Boros had to enter a playoff with the other three golfers to determine which one wasn’t advancing to the Senior PGA Championship.

“It was decided on the first playoff hole,” Boros said. “I shot a four, two other guys shot five and one shot six. So I got in.”

The Senior PGA Championship is scheduled for May 24-29 in Benton Harbor, Mich. This is the first year Boros has qualified for that event or the Senior Open.

“This year was my third crack at it and I got through. It’s been fun,” he said.

His fun golfing out west isn’t over yet.

After Sunday’s playoff, Boros hopped in a car and drove eight hours to Las Vegas, where he joined numerous other Tri-State PGA members for a three-day tournament. He shot a 4-under par 68 Monday.

While running the Treesdale facility and giving golf lessons, Boros still finds time to hone his own game.

“I go on the course each Sunday and ask random golfers if they’d mind if I play with them,” he said. “That’s always fun. Then I play in most of the Tri-State events on Mondays.”

Boros has two sons who played at Knoch High School. Joe Boros, 25, attended Charleston Southern University but did not golf there. Jack Boros, 21, is a senior at Saint Vincent College and is on the golf team there.