"They're actually finding a solution before it becomes a problem."
/Ryan Moore defends the new Q-School/fiscal year calendar in the name of saving the fall events.
Read MoreWhen you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
"It has to be right the first time because you can’t cost someone their dream right out of the gate.”
/Rex Hoggard says the PGA Tour Policy Board is poised
Read MoreNobilo On Q-School Demise
/Considering he's such a passionate on-air presence who nearly always convinces me of his point, I expected a much more impassioned case for killing Q-School as an avenue to the PGA Tour from Frank Nobilo. But
Read MoreMcIlroy Two Clear Of Another Lowly Q-School Product
/Heading into the Honda Classic finale, Rory McIlroy is two clear of Harris English who, Doug Ferguson writes, had the audacity to make every cut in 2012 without having played the Nationwide Tour.
Read More"A great deal of the PGA Tour ongoing relevance in Korea owes itself to the Qualifying School."
/Ben Sellenger makes a strong case that top Asian players interested in playing around the world will choose the European Tour now that Q-School sends them to the Nationwide Tour. Besides a Jeremy Lin reference and reminding us that K.J. Choi came to the PGA Tour through Q-School, he writes (thanks reader Josh):
Read More"The new system undoubtedly makes it harder for outsiders to crash the PGA Tour’s party."
/Sean Martin says good players will make their way to the tour, but he also mourns the likely demise of stories like Q-Schooler John Huh's Cinderella run, which will not be possible if the PGA Tour policy board votes to approve changes (and since FedEx just re-upped for $35 million based on the proposal, I'd say the votes will be there!).
Read MoreHuh? Ponte Vedra Spinsters Prepare To Twist Q-Schooler's Huhnbelievable Win
/The Golf Gods do work in mysterious ways…but I think they are making their statement about the planned demise of Q-School as a vehicle to line more pockets and value prop up the Nationwide Tour!
Read MoreFollow The Money: PAC Okays Sweeping PGA Tour Changes
/Doug Ferguson reports that the PGA Tour Player Advisory Council rolled over became convinced to scrap Q-School for the PGA Tour to help attract a title sponsor for the Nationwide Tour. The rationale, not surprisingly, came down to money.
Read MoreFinchem Admits: "The system is not broken"
/In town to meet with the Players Advisory Council to discuss the Q-School revamp and move to a year-round schedule, Tim Finchem talked with Jill Painter and said the new season ending Nationwide v. PGA Tour 126-and-beyond was FedExCup inspired.
Read MoreQ-School Squabble: Van Sickle def. Herre 7&6
/Nice little debate in this week's SI/golf.com Confidential on Q-School, with Gary Van Sickle taking the case of keeping Q-School. Van Sickle notes that "the real story here is that the PGA Tour is scrambling to find sponsors to replace Nationwide."
Read MoreHuh Finishes T-6, Best Finish Of '12 By A Rookie
/Just imagine if he'd played a year on the Nationwide Tour instead of graduating from tacky old Q-School. Sean Martin, filing notes on Sunday's wacky final round at Torrey, says this about the rookie-from-nowhere's amazing start:
"Dramatic N'wide Tour changes needed"
/As the PGA Tour's Oxford shirt set prepares to present players with their plan to save the Nationwide Tour by killing the Q-School avenue to the PGA Tour, Sean Martin suggests ways to liven up the soon-to-be-renamed minor league tour. And I couldn't help but wonder why you wouldn't take these suggestions to make it more sponsor-attractive without killing the Q-School approach?
Read MoreQ-School Replacement Concept Upgraded From Unfathomable To Merely Dreadful
/My friends at the PGA Tour have assured me that they would never consider exemptions into the minor league version of the FedExCup melding Nationwide Tour players and PGA Tour 126-and-beyond castaways. Instead, players earning money through exemptions on either tour could be eligible to the Q-School replacement event if they earned enough money.
Read MoreQ-School Replacement Idea Getting Worse By The Day
/Ryan Ballengee talks to Nationwide Tour president Bill Calfee, who says players showing up at a Torrey Pines player meeting will get to hear the latest concept for the PGA Tour/Nationwide Tour's three-event fall finish, which is designed to help lure a Nationwide title sponsor and replace PGA Tour Q-School as an annual avenue to the tour.
Check out this:
Beginning in 2013, a total of 50 PGA Tour cards will be awarded through a three-tournament series on the Nationwide Tour schedule. Q-School will only offer status on the Nationwide Tour.
The top 75 players from the Nationwide Tour money list and the first 75 players who fail to qualify for the PGA Tour playoffs will be a part of the series. In addition, Calfee said a number of top amateurs or collegiate players could be invited to take part in the series.
“It’s kind of like our form of the FedEx Cup, in some ways,” he said.
So now they are talking sponsor's invites for college players into the series?
What's next, spots for a few of the Commissioner's favorite players outside the top 125? Former Players Champions who no longer have status?
