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About The GOLFslinger.com Tour
Our
Mission is to provide an affordable, top level professional golf training ground
for players who aspire to play on the
PGA, Web.com, Champions, and LPGA Tours.
Our fee structure, payout formula and event schedule is what
makes our tour distinctive. The tour was founded in 2004 to help all
aspiring golfers take their best shot at playing professional golf on a major
exempt status tour.
Gain Experience
It takes 3, 4, even 5 years for a very good player to
determine if their game can elevate to handle world class competition. By
playing on the GOLFslinger.com Tour, you will be able to economically
gain the experience you need.
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Save
your money and come gain experience with us! |
A Lower Cost Alternative
The GOLFslinger.com Tour is a low cost alternative to the
developmental-mini tours like the
NGA-Hooters,
E-Golf Tarheel, Golden Bear, and
Gateway
Tours.
We pay deep, not top heavy.
It makes sense that the major tours PGA,
Web.com, European, LPGA,
and Champions all pay top heavy. The players earn
and/or keep their status based upon the money list.
The economics of professional golf are very harsh.
Almost
every player without major tour status will need
to be subsidized to continue chasing the dream
A very small group of top players outside of these status based tours earn
enough money playing golf to sustain their dreams on "developmental-mini tours".
While it is good for them, it takes hundreds of players
to support them.
So if you are in the majority that keep on paying HUGE
dollars for experience, stop wasting your money and come
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The Road To Exempt PGA Tour Status
There are three ways to get to the PGA Tour:
1. Earn enough money in Official
PGA Tour events by Monday qualifying or by getting sponsor exemptions |
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While it is technically possible (Tiger did it), you pretty much have to have
that much game and sponsor recognition. So unless you're Ricky Fowler, it
is truly unlikely. BTW Ricky earned over $500,000 in 2009 via sponsor
exemptions.
2.
Finish the year inside the top 25
players on the Web.com Tour money list
Obviously to finish in the top 25 on the
Web.com Tour money list you need to play in Web.com Tour events.
3.
Finish in the top 25 and ties
at PGA Tour Qualifying School in 2012
2012 will be the last year that a
player will have a shot to vault onto the PGA Tour via Q-school. Read below to
see how to qualify for the PGA Tour in 2013 and beyond.
The GOLFslinger.com Tour is designed to best prepare you for that
challenge.
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Starting in 2013
The new road to the PGA Tour
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The Web.com
Tour Regular Season
will award 25 PGA TOUR cards based on the
final money list.
The Web.com
Tour Finals
will determine the remaining 25 cards
Players
eligible to compete in the Finals
will be the
top-75 leaders on the Web.com Tour money
list, those who finished 126-200 on the PGA
TOURs FedExCup points list and non-members
who have earned enough FedExCup points from
their performance on TOUR to place them
126-200 on the official FedExCup points list
The 50
players who earn their membership
will be next in priority for PGA TOUR
tournament fields following the top 125 from
the previous seasons FedExCup Points List and
other exempt eligibility categories. The race
for the 2014 FedExCup will begin in October
2013 and conclude in late September 2014 with
the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola |
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Why YOU Should Play
The
GOLFslinger.com Tour
Qualifiers
Web.com/PGA
Tour Qualifiers
are like GOLFslinger.com Tour 1-Day events, you need to go low. Of
the approximately 28 annual Web.com Tour Events that you can qualify for, 21 are in
the United States.
Not only do our 1-Day events help you prepare for Web.com and PGA Tour
qualifiers, they accelerate your development by allowing you to get in the hunt
much more often, helping you learn to handle the pressure of being in
contention and seeing yourself on the leader board.
Our combination of tournament formats
100+ 1-Day,
15+ 2-Day Events
provide you with the most experience to give yourself
the best opportunity to play your way into the Web.com Tours Top 25. |
The
competition on The GOLFslinger.com Tour is strong.
At least 30 Players who have competed on our tour qualified
for the second
stage of PGA Tour Qualifying School
in
2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. 58 Players competed at second
stage in 2011.
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GOLFslinger.com Alumni
Web.com/Nationwide Tour Wins (6)
Brad Adamonis, Tom Gillis,
Justin Hicks (2), Nathan Smith, Marc Turnesa
PGA Tour Wins (1)
Marc Turnesa
LPGA Tour Wins (1)
Lexi Thompson |
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GOLFslinger.com Participants
Web.com/Nationwide Tour Wins (38)
Pat Bates (5), Dick Mast (4), Guy Boros (3), Craig
Bowden (3), Tom Carter (3), P.H. Horgan (3), Ryan Howison
(3), Justin Hicks (2), Rick Price (2), Brad Adamonis,
Eric Compton,
James Driscoll, Ken Duke, Tom Gillis, Mathias Gronberg, Nathan Smith,
Nicholas Thompson, Marc Turnesa, Steve Wheatcroft
PGA Tour Wins (2)
Guy Boros,
Marc Turnesa
Champions Tour Wins (2)
Fred Gibson, James Mason
LPGA Tour Wins (1)
Lexi Thompson |
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Scoring