“It sounds like old guys trying to cover their butts. Is this an old boys’ club or who the best players are?"

Jeff Rude calls the PGA Tour's proposed concept to convert Q-School into a Nationwide Tour qualifying event "too much of a closed shop, too restrictive, too protective of current members making the rules, too much of a half-dream for Q-School entrants and too little of the concept of keeping immediate hope alive."

But he quotes a fired up Lanny Wadkins, who is even less kind:

“It’s ridiculous,” said Hall of Famer Lanny Wadkins, who finished 10th on the 1972 Tour as a rookie out of Q-School. “It sounds like old guys trying to cover their butts. Is this an old boys’ club or who the best players are?

“Playing the Tour isn’t a birthright. The problem is, the exempt list is too high at 125 instead of 75. There’s not enough turnover. Too many of the same guys finish between 75 and 125 every year.”

Disappointingly, Paul Goydos has been one player already trying to justify the concept and sounding like one of the old boys' club types Lanny refers to. From Doug Ferguson's notes column: