Monday qualifier

A Monday qualifier is a stroke play golf tournament held on the Monday before a professional golf tournament that awards top finishers entry into the professional tournament. Those who enter the Monday qualifiers are those with no status on the tour sponsoring the event or too far down the tour's priority list to earn direct entry. The players who earn entry into the professional tournament in this manner are also called Monday qualifiers. In the United States, both the PGA Tour and Web.com Tour offer Monday qualifiers for most events. On the PGA Tour, an eighteen-hole pre-qualifier for entry into each Monday qualifier is also held before the Monday qualifier. The entry fee for a PGA Tour pre-qualifier to the Monday qualifier is $200 and the entry fee for the PGA Tour Monday qualifier is an additional $200.[1] The PGA Tour awards four spots via Monday qualifying in most events, excluding those classified as invitationals and majors. On the Web.com Tour, the entry fee for a Monday qualifier is $450. There is no pre-qualifier for entry into the Monday qualifier on the Web.com Tour. The Web.com Tour awards spots in the main professional tournament to the top twelve, thirteen, or fourteen finishers in the Monday qualifier depending on the tournament.[2]

Since the PGA Tour's standard number of Monday qualifiers was reduced to four in 1983,[3] four Monday qualifiers have gone on to win the tournament:

YearTournamentPlayerRef
1986Honda Classic Kenny Knox[3]
1986Southern Open Fred Wadsworth[4]
2010Wyndham Championship Arjun Atwal[5]
2019Valero Texas Open Corey Conners[6]

Two Monday qualifiers have won on the LPGA Tour: Laurel Kean at the 2000 State Farm Rail Classic and Brooke Henderson at the 2015 Cambia Portland Classic. The feat is more common on the Web.com Tour, having happened three times since 2011: Ted Potter Jr. at the 2011 South Georgia Classic, Sebastian Cappelen at the 2014 Air Capital Classic, and Rick Lamb at the 2016 LECOM Health Challenge.

References
  1. "Sony Open Monday Qualifier". Aloha Section of PGA of America. January 7, 2013. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
  2. "Web.com Monday Qualifier". South Central Section of PGA of America. June 10, 2013. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
  3. "Qualifier's 70 tops odds and the field". The New York Times. March 3, 1986. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  4. "Wadsworth wins Southern Open". The Palm Beach Post. October 6, 1986. p. 9C. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
  5. "Atwal takes the title". Golf Digest. August 22, 2010. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  6. "Monday qualifier Conners wins Valero Texas Open". ESPN. Associated Press. April 7, 2019.
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