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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, Nationwide, Champions, and LPGA Tours.
Our TEN 2012 Nationwide Monday Qualifier $1,000 Bonus Contests give our players an opportunity to
play on The Nationwide Tour.
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, Nationwide, 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 |
PGA TOUR |
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 in the top 25 and ties
at PGA Tour Qualifying School
Obtaining PGA Tour status via
Q-School is possible---if you make it to the finals and play great, you have
a shot. Ricky Fowler finished 15th to earn his 2010 status.
3. Finish the year inside the top 25 players on
the Nationwide Tour money list
Obviously to finish in the top 25 on the
Nationwide Tour money list you need to play in Nationwide Tour events.
The GOLFslinger.com Tour is designed to best prepare you for that
challenge.
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Who gets into a
Nationwide Tour
event?
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the 50
players who earned exempt Nationwide status by
finishing just above the top 25 and ties at the
finals of PGA Tour Qualifying School
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players
who finished between 26th and 60th on the previous
year's money list
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those
who were recently fully exempt on the PGA Tour.
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conditional players who did not earn exempt status
at Q-School finals
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approximately 14 qualifiers
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sponsor/medical exemptions
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players that finished in the top 25 at the previous
event that are not otherwise exempt.
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Why YOU Should Play
The
GOLFslinger.com Tour
Qualifiers
Nationwide/PGA
Tour Qualifiers
are like GOLFslinger.com Tour 1-Day events, you need to go low. Of
the approximately 28 annual Nationwide Tour Events that you can qualify for, 21 are in
the United States.
Not only do our 1-Day events help you prepare for Nationwide 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.
Nationwide
Monday Contests
The TEN GOLFslinger.com Tour Nationwide Monday
Qualifier Bonus Contests give you the opportunity
to play on The Nationwide Tour by winning a pressure filled group of
events that create a similar atmosphere to Q-School.
Our combination of tournament formats
100+ 1-Day,
20+ 2-Day, and Select 3+ Day Events
provide you with the best experience to give yourself
the best opportunity to play your way into the
Nationwide 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
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
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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