2011 PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament

This is the final stage for qualifying rounds. Also known as the Q-School by the golf authorities. It is one tournament played over six rounds, usually held in late November or early December. This year it will take place on Nov. 30th - Dec. 5, 2011, practice rounds will start on Nov. 27 and go through the 29th it will be held in La Quinta, California at PGA West Nicklaus Tournament Course and TPC Stadium Course.

The players that take part of this tourmament are Second Stage winners and players who received exempitions into the Final Stage. The top 25 players, plus ties, earn PGA Tour cards for the following year. Their priority ranking for purposes of tournament entry is 24; this ranking enables them to enter most full-field events on the PGA Tour, but not more prestigious stops on the tour unless a substantial number of players in higher categories skip the events. For example, the top 125 players on the previous year's money list who are not otherwise eligible are at priority 19; sponsor's exemptions are priority 11; and winners of PGA Tour events in the previous two years are priority 9. The next 50 players plus ties after the top 25 earn Nationwide Tour cards for the following year, and any remaining finishers receive conditional status on the Nationwide Tour.

There are a few more methods to qualify for an elite golf tour like:

• Winning enough money on multiple events on the tour as a qualifier/sponsor's invitee to meet whatever criteria the tour may lay down for promotion to full membership.


• Finishing near the top of the money list of meriton the tour's official developmental tour, in this case the Nationawide Tour.


• Winning a specified number of tournaments on the tour's official developmental tour may grant an exemption. For example winning three events in the Nationwide tour, for the PGA the exemption runs for the entirety of the next season.


• Winning a tournament on the tour after gaining entry to it through its qualification event or a sponsor's invitee.


• Special categories for elite golfers: Most tours offer automatic memberships to golfers with outstanding achievements such as winning a recent major championship or making a recent Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup team.

For the PGA Tour there are more exemptions to earn a card to the tournament, most of which include winning most of the mayor tournaments of the tour several years in a row.

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