Frank2001
12-04-2002, 10:16 PM
Greetings --
The Top 35 and ties of the 2002 Q-School will be exempt for 2003 under Exemption Category 25. That category also includes players among the Top 15 of the 2002 NationWide Tour (ex-Buy.Com) Money List.
The NationWide Leading Money Winner plus any 3-time 2002 Nationwide Tour winners will be exempt for 2003 under Exemption Category 23.
This is the complete Exemption Category List (http://www.pgatour.com/information/2002_exempt.html) -- NOTE: the 2003 Exemption page has not been released yet.
The players in category 23 enjoy a distinct advantage over the players in category 25 -- they are immune from periodic re-shuffles. A re-shuffle is a change in priority selection order of Category 25 players based on official money earned at the point of the particular re-shuffle. Re-shuffles occur 4 to 5 times during the PGA Tour season.
Before the 1st re-shuffle, the order of selection for category 25 players (for inclusion into the field of a regular PGA Tour event) is -- lowest q-school scorer 1st, highest Nationwide money earner 2nd, next-lowest q-school scorer 3rd, next-highest Nationwide money earner 4th, and so on.
At the point of each re-shuffle, the category 25 player who has earned the most official money to date is ranked first, followed by the 2nd highest such money earner, then the 3rd, and so on.
From that point on, category 25 players are selected in order where they stood in terms of money earned at the point of each re-shuffle.
So, the Q-School Medalist enjoys guaranteed priority selection only up to the point of the first re-shuffle. Then his fate is determined by what he has earned to date.
If the NationWide Tour Leading Money Winner (as well as any 3-time Nationwide event winners) doesn't have to worry about re-shuffling, then the Q-School Medalist shouldn't have to either.
Therefore, the Q-School Medalist deserves to be included in Exemption Category 23.
Thanx-A-Lot, Frank2001 (http://fgf2001.100megsfree3.com/golf/)
The Top 35 and ties of the 2002 Q-School will be exempt for 2003 under Exemption Category 25. That category also includes players among the Top 15 of the 2002 NationWide Tour (ex-Buy.Com) Money List.
The NationWide Leading Money Winner plus any 3-time 2002 Nationwide Tour winners will be exempt for 2003 under Exemption Category 23.
This is the complete Exemption Category List (http://www.pgatour.com/information/2002_exempt.html) -- NOTE: the 2003 Exemption page has not been released yet.
The players in category 23 enjoy a distinct advantage over the players in category 25 -- they are immune from periodic re-shuffles. A re-shuffle is a change in priority selection order of Category 25 players based on official money earned at the point of the particular re-shuffle. Re-shuffles occur 4 to 5 times during the PGA Tour season.
Before the 1st re-shuffle, the order of selection for category 25 players (for inclusion into the field of a regular PGA Tour event) is -- lowest q-school scorer 1st, highest Nationwide money earner 2nd, next-lowest q-school scorer 3rd, next-highest Nationwide money earner 4th, and so on.
At the point of each re-shuffle, the category 25 player who has earned the most official money to date is ranked first, followed by the 2nd highest such money earner, then the 3rd, and so on.
From that point on, category 25 players are selected in order where they stood in terms of money earned at the point of each re-shuffle.
So, the Q-School Medalist enjoys guaranteed priority selection only up to the point of the first re-shuffle. Then his fate is determined by what he has earned to date.
If the NationWide Tour Leading Money Winner (as well as any 3-time Nationwide event winners) doesn't have to worry about re-shuffling, then the Q-School Medalist shouldn't have to either.
Therefore, the Q-School Medalist deserves to be included in Exemption Category 23.
Thanx-A-Lot, Frank2001 (http://fgf2001.100megsfree3.com/golf/)