Monday Qualify
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Jared Willerson
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They have a schedule of monday qualifiers associated with particular tournaments on pgatour.com
I want to think there is another website out there that keeps track of qualifiers too.
I want to think there is another website out there that keeps track of qualifiers too.
I have Monday qualified several times for Nationwide and PGA Tour events. The process has changed a bit over the past few years as there are Pre-Qualifiers sometimes just to get to the Monday qualifier. The fees are usually pretty high, $200-300 and there are generally four spots for PGA Tour events, and 12 (or so) for Nationwide Tour events. You are generally competing with card carrying Tour players that aren't in the event, mini-tour players, college All-Americans and local studs. The local PGA sections usually run the qualifiers and and it is not unusual for a score in the mid-60's to qualify.
Matt 4-L
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Thanks, that's kinda what I was wondering. I know that it takes a low score to qualify but was wondering if non members have to go thru pre-qualifiers.
Jim Kobylinski
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This is in line with what i researched and i think all the PGA Tour Monday Qualifiers have a pre-qual to play in. They were getting too many of the "i want to play with the pros on monday qualifier" people who had no business being out there. Most of the courses you qualify on are generally no where near the difficulty of the actual tournament course which is why most scores are in the mid 60's as ekennedy suggested.
The scores are in the mid 60's because there are more great "sticks" out there than anyone can imagine. The US Open Qualifier is always a good way to see how you line up to your competition. If your any good, you should get through the Local, if your really good you "may" get by the Regional.......if your very good you go to the big show. Even then good luck at playing more than 2 rounds. But it can be done....it is an Open opportunity where politics can't keep you from living the dream. Go for it!
Kevin Shields
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One of the best rounds I ever played in competition was a 63 i put up in Erie at the Nationwide qualifier. I won the medal........by 1. I think 67 played of for the 14th spot. Tough crowd.
adamscot89
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If you really think you have what it takes then the Nationwide qualifiers are the best bet. $200-$300 and you're in, pick a course that looks like it fits your game and a 66 or 67 sometimes even a couple shots higher will get you in a Nationwide Tour event with a chance for a paycheck, good luck
Jim Kobylinski
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I'm not denying that, however i have played some of the local qualifying courses in the chicago area for both nationwide tour and pga tour and point blank the courses aren't that difficult, period. You take guys who can play the tour and put them on that type of course and the result should be mid 60's.
Pre-qualifying for PGA Tour events is brutal, but absolutely necessary. I played with a guy that shot 60 in a Monday qualifier...on the front nine.
Monday qualifying is far less about the ability of a relative no-name coming out of nowhere to get into the field and make a name for himself or win (it's been done.) The harsh reality is that the PGA Tour and Senior PGA Tour's are "closed shops" that only want players with status to play each week. They've even eliminated most of the PGA Section Qualifiers...they don't want us either.
There are players out there that worked hard on either the Nationwide Tours or battled through 18 rounds of Q-School (including Pre-Qualifying) to finish high enough to get their PGA Tour cards only to realize they get to travel the country Monday Qualifying. They can't get into events. Each week, wastes of space like Guy Boros take up spots, fire off one or two bad rounds and then head home due to some obscure status they still hold. Add that together with all of the WGC events, and its incredibly difficult to play in enough events to keep your card before getting lost in the shuffle.
The moral? You better got hot early like Johnny Vegas and Tommy "Two Gloves" or you are destined to return to the Nationwide Tour or worse...the real world.
Monday qualifying is far less about the ability of a relative no-name coming out of nowhere to get into the field and make a name for himself or win (it's been done.) The harsh reality is that the PGA Tour and Senior PGA Tour's are "closed shops" that only want players with status to play each week. They've even eliminated most of the PGA Section Qualifiers...they don't want us either.
There are players out there that worked hard on either the Nationwide Tours or battled through 18 rounds of Q-School (including Pre-Qualifying) to finish high enough to get their PGA Tour cards only to realize they get to travel the country Monday Qualifying. They can't get into events. Each week, wastes of space like Guy Boros take up spots, fire off one or two bad rounds and then head home due to some obscure status they still hold. Add that together with all of the WGC events, and its incredibly difficult to play in enough events to keep your card before getting lost in the shuffle.
The moral? You better got hot early like Johnny Vegas and Tommy "Two Gloves" or you are destined to return to the Nationwide Tour or worse...the real world.
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