Nationwide Tour Head Offers Yet Another Reason To Question PGA Tour's Radical Entry Revamp
/The forthcoming boondoggle that is the PGA Tour's decision to end Q-School as an avenue to the tour gets worse as details emerge and it becomes apparent that there is simply no logical reason for implementing such a radical change to the qualifying process. Particularly as the tour touts the Nationwide Tour's "body of work" versus three-weeks of Q-School golf, even as they introduce a playoff with PGA Tour bottom feeders that will reduce that body of work to a three week body of work.
Consider the latest comment from Nationwide Tour chief Bill Calfee, as reported by Rex Hoggard in an excellent look at all of the negatives piling up with the new plan. BTW, Calfee is a former Q-School grad:
“If I wear my Nationwide Tour hat I’d like to see No. 25 (in earnings) safe,” said Calfee, echoing a theme that would guarantee Nos. 1-25 off the Nationwide Tour money list entering the finals series a Tour card. “If I wear a PGA Tour hat I’d have a different number. There should be some seeding and I think players agree with that.”
So the head of the Nationwide Tour is essentially acknowledging that the first 25 players should be safe from this proposed "playoff" with the 126-and-beyond on the money list.
Then why is it again we're changing to this supposedly better system?
Oh right, because the tour brass wanted to grow the tour into a year-round schedule. The question is, why? And is it really worth the risk?