"Q-School: The good, bad, ugly and disheartening"

Golfweek does their typically stellar week covering Q-school.  Sean Martin reports from second stage qualifying in Brooksville, Florida and Jim McCabe offers notes on the other qualifying sites, where plenty of big names did not advance.

 

Comments

[Raider Fan]

Not that I want to discourage anyone from fullfilling their dream but shouldn't there be a rule for these has beens to throw in the towel??? Can Robert Gamez and Jim Gallagher get real jobs in this world?

At least Andrew Magee works for the Golf Channel and plays with real estate investors during the summer at a development in Idaho. I guess Gallagher could become an equipment rep.

[Tighthead]

Raider Fan - perhaps you could ask that question of Mr. Allen Davis as well.

[HTBATG]

Big Luke List fan. I predict great things from this player in 2010.

[Raider Fan]

Tighthead: Exactly the case. Al David should retire and move on.

So should Peter Lonard, Brad Adamonis, Robert Gamez, Frank Lickliter, Ted Tryba, Dean Wilson, Eric Axley, Guy Boros, David Berganio, Kirk Triplett, Bob Burns and Dennis Paulson.

[Sir Real]

Raider Fan, Peter Lonard, while streaky...still has a ton of game when he's on. Triplett...while dull and a plodder, can still contend. The others are fading or in pronounced funks. It's a hard game at the top level...give'm some props for at least trying to compete!

[Tighthead]

I don't see why they should quit. Pro golf is eat what you kill. There are no rules about when you stop hunting.

[Miss Priss ... I Dig Hot Golf Guys!]

Man on the street opinions about what other guys should do. Gag me. I'll bet ... no, I know ... you guys are wimps. Fat guts. Cargo shorts. Goatees. Fat wives and girlfriends. Children who look like frogs. Do you wear jerseys of NFL players on Sundays at your local chicken wing joint? Go shoot in the sixties for four rounds of golf … over the next ten years … and then thump your chests.

[Bob]

Great points by all. Maybe Steve Stricker should have quit as well. Scott Verplank too.

You guys are morons. The best thing about golf is the comeback kid in a world of riches and success.

[taffy]

Tour school is the ulitmate pressure cooker, and second stage may be the most pressure filled. Imagine Jamie Lovemark-in a playoff a few weeks ago and not even going to the finals which means no status on the Nationwide Tour! The fields were full of former tour winners that didn't make the finals. Believe me, all these guys can whip most of us every day, anywhere.

[Ky Laffoon's Ghost]

@ Taffy:

Indeed. Playing left-handed.

I do wonder at those who would denigrate the players mentioned above, all of whom have performed well at the highest levels of their chosen profession. Would that each of us be in that category.

I'm willing to make an exception for Al Davis, though. His "Just win, baby" schtick was old when John "BOOM" Madden was coaching the raiders.

[MRP]

Miss Priss...

Your first and last sentence...solid.

The rest is not a style that I prefer...but I get your point.

[Pickworth]

Isn't Frank Lickliter the one who had successive 60s in Q school two years ago? Makes you shudder. don't it.

[Will Smith]

Big ups to Kevin Kisner for dominating the Callaway Gardens site. 64-67-66-66. -25 and seven clear of the field.