""I read through the other posts and did not see the answer, just a bunch of chat about odds and number of players. The answer to your question is, YES, you can qualify for the Nationwide tour, the same as qualifing for the PGA Tour. There are 2 methods for ordinary people (non-celeb), 1st is going through the Q-school process, this is a very long and expensive process. But the results from the Q-school dictate who has exempt status on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tours. The "status" is what is used to determine what tournaments you can get into. The "Status", also dictates where you start within the Q-school process, the process is just a series of tournaments, where the top so many advance to the next tournament within the pocess. Someone with "NO-STATUS", would have to start with the Pre-Qualifing tournament, I believe the top 40 then advanced to Stage I.
The 2nd method is a little less expensive, this would be going the monday qualifier, again if or have "NO STATUS", you might have to play in a pre-qualifier to get into the Monday qualifier. From what I have seen here in AZ, for both the Waste Management tournament, and Justin Timberlake's tournament, the Pre-qualifier is on the Thursday before, about 40-50 then advance to the Monday qualifier, where the top 4 advance. The entry fees are $200 to enter the Pre-qualifier, and an additional $200 if you advance. This process was the same a few years back when a Nationwide event was held in Scottsdale.
On the entry forms, the only time a hdcp is needed is if your declaring Amateur, If you declare Pro, there is no hdcp question. However I think they do monitor the results so you wouldn't be able to get into too many pre-qualifiers when firing 90's. I've seen plenty of 80's shot. The top 40-50 in the pre-qualifiers are usually EVEN to -1, out of 99 players, the Monday qualifiers usually takes a 66, 67, or 68 to get the top 4. """
thank you finaly someone answers the ? that I asked!!! and personally i think that qualifying for the nationwide and pga are absolutely two different ball games. Obviously this is true or there would be no nationwide everyone would be in the pga tour. Dont get me wrong the nationwide tour guys a tough and really solid but the guys in the pga tour play much harder courses with a lot more on the line than nationwide. If the guys on the nationwide could do that as consistent then they would make the step up.