jrsmith1491

""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.

I definitely agree with that very easy solution lol unless you live on Augusta or something

Well I figure if you are good enough to play scratch daily at your home track and it has a high enough slope then you can at several others

Can you qualify for the nationwide tour being a true scratch golfer?? Or what does it take?

thats why i use ebay you can get basically brand new clubs for a 1/4 of the price and the shaft is simply the best driver shaft on the market right now

I agree the wedge and the putter are going to be my focus point the next month or so bad thing is I live in Indiana golf is almost done for the year

It depends I play the 3 courses quite often switching it up its sad tho I can drive the ball 280 on a 390 par 4 and still end up with a bogey lmao but I've really cut down the boys just by playing safer golf and laying up to a club I'm confident with

My main problem is I 3 putt atleast 4 times a round

I shot a 78 last week and 80 Monday so the 9 or 10 I could be technically right now its all my short game why I'm not scratch now inside 100 I am terrible

Hello everyone I'm 19 years old 5'6 and pretty athletic I've been playing golf about 3 times a year for 3 years but never played like I have been lately basically everyday. I'm around a 12 handicap and was about a 15 just about a month ago I'm working on my game hard and dropping strokes off my handicap everyday. My short term goal is to reach a low handicap single digits then its off get to scratch. I'm going to track my progress on here and I'm sure a lot of you could careless but some might be in the same boat.

Hello everyone I am looking into buying a Nike vr 8.5 driver x stiff flex . I hit a 9.5 with stiff flex now and can't keep the ball out of the clouds! I hit the Nike at the shop really well how do you guys feel about this driver? Any help will be appreciated

No I tee the ball up fairly low

Well I use a stiff shaft swing speed 100 average putting is terrible along with anything inside 100 yards if someone could take over after I get the I'd be a scratch golfer lol and I've also never tried a.8.5 but I think its me my irons are the same way

Hello everyone I am really dumbfounded on this. I'm 19 only 5'6 mid high handicapper but really good ball striker I hit 98% of my shots solid including the driver I hit ball around 270 but least 3 miles high and I hit a 9.5 degree driver I hit my irons extremely high also I've tried backing away from the ball lowering my swing plane can't bring it down at all! Any suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated thanks Jake

exactly how i feel now i feel like low 80s is a must and am very disgusted when i shoot close to 90

Hello everyone I'm looking to get a new set of irons. I play an old set of Titliest dci 822 os. I hit them well. I am about a 14 handicap any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and I dont want to spend a small fortion on them and they dont have to be brand new... Thanks Jake

well today helped my confidence a lot. I play 36 holes first 18 I shot and 84 second 18 i got in the 70's for my first time with a 79 :)

Well I played 18 those evening on a course I've never played before and I shot 12 over I counted everything and I hit 11 gir and petted 33 times

I wish I could do that lmao

I am 19 idk where 15 came from

The slope was 151 when golf digest did an article on it being the toughest public course in Indiana this was 2 years ago when I saw it but I play from the gold tees pro

Thanks guys and the course is in Indiana called Hulman links. I will definitely take all this in hopefully it will improve soon lol

Thank you all very much this is all very helpful especially for my confidence

I have played with par players and I know its far fetched I was just wanted to know some opinions on my chances and how to achieve it

I will be a member at a challenging public course with a slope of 151.2 hopefully it will help