2004-08-25

Qualifying School

With fall rapidly approaching, I decided to read a book about QSchool.

Q School Confidential : Inside Golf's Cruelest Tournament.

Pretty interesting stuff: This year, it costs $4,500 to sign up and about 2/3 of the field gets cut at each stage. You need to be able to shoot par or better in tournament conditions to have any chance of making the cuts. Unless you can shoot 1 under on average, under pressure, it prabaly is best to just be a spectator. If you can make the final stage, you get to play on the Nationwide tour in 2005 at minimum, at best you make the PGA Tour. Good luck to all you lucky golfers out there with good enough games to play in this thing. If at all possible, I am going to go head up to Palm Springs and watch them play the finals.

PGA tour qualifying tournament schedule

ENTRY DEADLINE: 5:00 p.m. EDT, Friday, September 17, 2004

FIRST STAGE 72 holes

Tuesday-Friday, October 19-22, 2004
TPC of Heron Bay, Coral Springs, Fla.
Greg Norman Course at PGA West, La Quinta, Calif.
Jennings Mill Country Club, Bogart, Ga.
TPC of Tampa Bay, Lutz, Fla.
Dayton Valley Golf Club, Dayton, Nev.

Tuesday-Friday, October 26-29, 2004
Florence Country Club, Florence, S.C.
BlackHorse Golf Club, Cypress, Texas
Lantana Golf Club, Lantana, Texas
Pensacola Country Club, Pensacola, Fla.
Martin Downs Country Club, Palm City, Fla.
San Juan Oaks, Hollister, Calif.
Rio Rico Resort, Rio Rico, Ariz.

SECOND STAGE 72 holes

Wednesday-Saturday, November 10-13, 2004
Stonebridge Ranch, McKinney, Texas
Hombre City Golf Club, Panama City Beach, Fla.

Wednesday-Saturday, November 17-20, 2004
Deerwood Golf Club, Kingwood, Texas
St. Johns Golf & Country Club, St. Augustine, Fla.
Black Horse Course, Seaside, Calif.
Oak Valley Golf Club, Beaumont, Calif.

FINALS 108 holes

Wednesday-Monday, December 1-6, 2004
PGA West Stadium Course & Nicklaus Tournament Course, La Quinta, Calif.

PGA TOUR National Q-School Tournament application

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