2008 PGA Tour Qualifying School Graduates
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This is a list of the 28 players who earned their 2009 PGA Tour
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...

 card through Q School in 2008.
#PlayerPGA Tour
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1   Harrison Frazar
Harrison Frazar
Harrison Frazar is an American professional golfer who has played on the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour.Frazar was born in Dallas, Texas and was raised there and in Abilene, Texas. He attended Highland Park High School, where he won two state golf championships and was a three-time all-Texas...

300 177 Shot a 59 in the fourth round.
T2   Derek Fathauer
Derek Fathauer
Derek Fathauer is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.Fathauer was born in Stuart, Florida. He attended Martin County High School in Stuart, Florida. He and his twin brother Daryl played in the Ginn sur Mer Classic in October 2007, the first twins to do so in a PGA Tour event.-Amateur...

2 1
T2   James Nitties
James Nitties
James Evangelo Nitties is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Nitties was born in Melbourne, Australia. He suffered from juvenile arthritis as a child and young adult, which restricted his flexibility. This caused him to have to take pain killers to restrict...

0 0
T4   John Huston 533 351
T4   Chris Stroud
Chris Stroud
Chris Stroud is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Stroud was born in Nederland, Texas. He played collegiately at Lamar University and was a two-time All-American. As an amateur, he won the 2003 North and South Amateur and played on the 2004 Palmer Cup...

55 22
6   Robert Garrigus
Robert Garrigus
Robert Garrigus is an American professional golfer who is currently a member of the PGA Tour. He won the 2010 Children's Miracle Network Classic, to guarantee exempt status on the PGA Tour through the end of the 2012 season....

86 51
T7   David Berganio, Jr.
David Berganio, Jr.
David Berganio, Jr. is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Berganio was born in Los Angeles, California. He won the U.S. Amateur Public Links twice while playing college golf at the University of Arizona with Jim Furyk...

136 64
T7   Glen Day
Glen Day
Glen Edward Day is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Day was born in Mobile, Alabama, and raised in Poplarville, Mississippi, by his mother Jeanne Bass Day. Jeanne was widowed at the age of 28 when Glen was approximately 2 years of age. His grandfather Glyndol Bass, was...

409 246
T7   James Oh 0 0
T7   Webb Simpson
Webb Simpson
James Frederick "Webb" Simpson is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Simpson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He played high school golf at Broughton High before his collegiate golf career at Wake Forest University. He was a three-time All-American and...

7 3
T11   Tyler Aldridge 0 0
T11   Notah Begay III
Notah Begay III
Notah Ryan Begay III is an American professional golfer. He is the only full-blooded American Indian golfer on the PGA Tour. He is currently an analyst with the Golf Channel.-Amateur career:...

184 93
T11   Matthew Borchert 0 0
T11   Jason Dufner
Jason Dufner
Jason Dufner is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.-Early life:Dufner was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He moved to the Washington, D.C. area when he was 11 years old, and then to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida when he was 14. It was there that he started playing golf, and...

79 38
T11   Troy Kelly
Troy Kelly
Troy Kelly is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Kelly became the youngest player to ever compete in Washington State Junior Golf Association tournaments at the age of 6. He was the WJGA state champion at age 11 and 13. He won more than 40 tournaments in his junior golf...

1 0
T11   Jimmy Walker
Jimmy Walker (golfer)
Jimmy Walker is an American professional golfer.Walker was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is currently a member of the PGA Tour. He played on the Nationwide Tour full-time in 2003 and 2004. In 2004 he was the Nationwide Tour money winner and player of the year. By doing so he earned his PGA...

60 26
T11   Gary Woodland
Gary Woodland
-Early life:Woodland was born in Topeka, Kansas, and attended Shawnee Heights High School in the suburb of Tecumseh. After high school, he attended Washburn University on a basketball scholarship, but left after his freshman year to take up a golf scholarship at University of Kansas...

0 0
T18   Wil Collins
Wil Collins
Wil Collins is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He earned his PGA Tour card for the 2009 season by finishing T-18th in the 2008 version of Q-school-Career:Collins was born in Rapid City, South Dakota...

3 1
T18   Mathias Grönberg
Mathias Grönberg
Mathias David Grönberg is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour, PGA Tour, and their second-tier tours.-Career:...

158 76
T18   Bob Heintz
Bob Heintz
Bob Heintz is an American professional golfer who plays on the Nationwide Tour.Heintz was born in Syosset, New York. He was a three-time Ivy League champion at Yale University....

132 46
T18   Kent Jones
Kent Jones (golfer)
Kent Jones is an American professional golfer.Jones was born in Portales, New Mexico. He graduated from the University of New Mexico with Bachelor's and Masters degrees in business administration...

290 144
T18   Leif Olson
Leif Olson
Leif Olson is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Olson was born in Denver, Colorado. He played college golf from 1999 to 2003 at Duke University.-Professional career:...

1 0
T18   Ted Purdy
Ted Purdy
Theodore Townsend Purdy is an American professional golfer.Purdy was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from Brophy College Preparatory in 1992. He went to the University of Arizona as a finance major and was inducted into its Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. He has won one PGA Tour tournament,...

191 105
T18   Chris Riley 254 163
T18   Brian Vranesh
Brian Vranesh
Brian Vranesh is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Vranesh was born in Northridge, California. He attended the College of the Canyons. He turned professional in 1999 and has no professional wins...

0 0
T18   Aaron Watkins 1 0
T18   Jay Williamson
Jay Williamson
Justin Arch "Jay" Williamson IV is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Williamson was born in St. Louis, Missouri...

325 166
T18   Y. E. Yang
Yang Yong-eun
Yang Yong-eun , or Y. E. Yang, is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the PGA Tour, where he has won twice, including most notably the 2009 PGA Championship where he held off the challenge of Tiger Woods during the final round....

43 25 Won 2009 PGA Championship
2009 PGA Championship
The 2009 PGA Championship was the 91st PGA Championship and was played from August 13–16 at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota. Prior to 2009 the last major played at Hazeltine was the 2002 PGA Championship, won by Rich Beem. The 2009 course is notable for having a greater length...

  • Players in yellow are 2009 PGA Tour rookies.

2009 Results

PlayerStartsCuts
made
Best
finish
Money list
rank
Earnings ($)
  Harrison Frazar
Harrison Frazar
Harrison Frazar is an American professional golfer who has played on the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour.Frazar was born in Dallas, Texas and was raised there and in Abilene, Texas. He attended Highland Park High School, where he won two state golf championships and was a three-time all-Texas...

 
27 19 112 738,615
  Derek Fathauer
Derek Fathauer
Derek Fathauer is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.Fathauer was born in Stuart, Florida. He attended Martin County High School in Stuart, Florida. He and his twin brother Daryl played in the Ginn sur Mer Classic in October 2007, the first twins to do so in a PGA Tour event.-Amateur...

 
24 8 203 125,305
  James Nitties
James Nitties
James Evangelo Nitties is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Nitties was born in Melbourne, Australia. He suffered from juvenile arthritis as a child and young adult, which restricted his flexibility. This caused him to have to take pain killers to restrict...

 
26 15 96 931,532
  John Huston  13 7 199 135,476
  Chris Stroud
Chris Stroud
Chris Stroud is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Stroud was born in Nederland, Texas. He played collegiately at Lamar University and was a two-time All-American. As an amateur, he won the 2003 North and South Amateur and played on the 2004 Palmer Cup...

 
28 17 113 735,019
  Robert Garrigus
Robert Garrigus
Robert Garrigus is an American professional golfer who is currently a member of the PGA Tour. He won the 2010 Children's Miracle Network Classic, to guarantee exempt status on the PGA Tour through the end of the 2012 season....

 
25 17 127 657,204
  David Berganio, Jr.
David Berganio, Jr.
David Berganio, Jr. is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Berganio was born in Los Angeles, California. He won the U.S. Amateur Public Links twice while playing college golf at the University of Arizona with Jim Furyk...

 
15 7 205 115,517
  Glen Day
Glen Day
Glen Edward Day is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Day was born in Mobile, Alabama, and raised in Poplarville, Mississippi, by his mother Jeanne Bass Day. Jeanne was widowed at the age of 28 when Glen was approximately 2 years of age. His grandfather Glyndol Bass, was...

 
26 14 151 445,720
  James Oh  20 4 220 57,271
  Webb Simpson
Webb Simpson
James Frederick "Webb" Simpson is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Simpson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He played high school golf at Broughton High before his collegiate golf career at Wake Forest University. He was a three-time All-American and...

 
30 16 70 1,249,674
  Tyler Aldridge  17 3 239 24,370
  Notah Begay III
Notah Begay III
Notah Ryan Begay III is an American professional golfer. He is the only full-blooded American Indian golfer on the PGA Tour. He is currently an analyst with the Golf Channel.-Amateur career:...

 
14 4 223 54,645
  Matthew Borchert  18 4 234 34,324
  Jason Dufner
Jason Dufner
Jason Dufner is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.-Early life:Dufner was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He moved to the Washington, D.C. area when he was 11 years old, and then to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida when he was 14. It was there that he started playing golf, and...

 
26 19 33 2,190,792
  Troy Kelly
Troy Kelly
Troy Kelly is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Kelly became the youngest player to ever compete in Washington State Junior Golf Association tournaments at the age of 6. He was the WJGA state champion at age 11 and 13. He won more than 40 tournaments in his junior golf...

 
16 3 238 25,828
  Jimmy Walker
Jimmy Walker (golfer)
Jimmy Walker is an American professional golfer.Walker was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is currently a member of the PGA Tour. He played on the Nationwide Tour full-time in 2003 and 2004. In 2004 he was the Nationwide Tour money winner and player of the year. By doing so he earned his PGA...

 
24 14 125 662,683
  Gary Woodland
Gary Woodland
-Early life:Woodland was born in Topeka, Kansas, and attended Shawnee Heights High School in the suburb of Tecumseh. After high school, he attended Washburn University on a basketball scholarship, but left after his freshman year to take up a golf scholarship at University of Kansas...

 
17 8 204 121,031
  Wil Collins
Wil Collins
Wil Collins is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour. He earned his PGA Tour card for the 2009 season by finishing T-18th in the 2008 version of Q-school-Career:Collins was born in Rapid City, South Dakota...

 
18 5 207 84,569
  Mathias Grönberg
Mathias Grönberg
Mathias David Grönberg is a Swedish professional golfer who has played on the European Tour, PGA Tour, and their second-tier tours.-Career:...

 
13 6 162 354,163
  Bob Heintz
Bob Heintz
Bob Heintz is an American professional golfer who plays on the Nationwide Tour.Heintz was born in Syosset, New York. He was a three-time Ivy League champion at Yale University....

 
20 11 169 312,699
  Kent Jones
Kent Jones (golfer)
Kent Jones is an American professional golfer.Jones was born in Portales, New Mexico. He graduated from the University of New Mexico with Bachelor's and Masters degrees in business administration...

 
24 12 171 301,879
  Leif Olson
Leif Olson
Leif Olson is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Olson was born in Denver, Colorado. He played college golf from 1999 to 2003 at Duke University.-Professional career:...

 
21 5 154 412,966
  Ted Purdy
Ted Purdy
Theodore Townsend Purdy is an American professional golfer.Purdy was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from Brophy College Preparatory in 1992. He went to the University of Arizona as a finance major and was inducted into its Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. He has won one PGA Tour tournament,...

 
30 21 100 838,707
  Chris Riley  22 16 129 630,417
  Brian Vranesh
Brian Vranesh
Brian Vranesh is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Vranesh was born in Northridge, California. He attended the College of the Canyons. He turned professional in 1999 and has no professional wins...

 
20 6 189 198,567
  Aaron Watkins  18 6 178 263,969
  Jay Williamson
Jay Williamson
Justin Arch "Jay" Williamson IV is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Williamson was born in St. Louis, Missouri...

 
22 14 184 240,574
  Y. E. Yang
Yang Yong-eun
Yang Yong-eun , or Y. E. Yang, is a South Korean professional golfer currently playing on the PGA Tour, where he has won twice, including most notably the 2009 PGA Championship where he held off the challenge of Tiger Woods during the final round....

 
23 19 10 3,489,516

T = Tied

Green background indicates the player retained his PGA Tour card for 2010 (finished inside the top 125).

Yellow background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2010, but retained conditional status (finished between 126-150).

Red background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2010 (finished outside the top 150).

Winners on the PGA Tour in 2009

No.DatePlayerTournamentWinning scoreMargin of victoryRunner-up
1. Mar 8   Y. E. Yang Honda Classic
Honda Classic
The Honda Classic is a PGA Tour golf tournament that is played each March in Florida. It was founded in 1972 as the Jackie Gleason's Inverrary Classic. In 1981, American Motors backed the tournament. Since 1982, American Honda Motor Co., Inc...

-9 (68-65-70-68=271) 1 stroke   John Rollins
2. Aug 16   Y. E. Yang PGA Championship
PGA Championship
The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...

-8 (73-70-67-70=280) 3 strokes   Tiger Woods
Tiger Woods
Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No...


Runner-up on the PGA Tour in 2009

No.DatePlayerTournamentWinnerWinning scoreRunner-up score
1. Sep 7   Jason Dufner
Jason Dufner
Jason Dufner is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.-Early life:Dufner was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He moved to the Washington, D.C. area when he was 11 years old, and then to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida when he was 14. It was there that he started playing golf, and...

Deutsche Bank Championship
Deutsche Bank Championship
The Deutsche Bank Championship is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour, held annually over the Labor Day weekend. The tournament made its debut in 2003 and is held at the Tournament Players Club of Boston in Norton, Massachusetts...

  Steve Stricker
Steve Stricker
Steven Stricker is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He has won 11 tournaments on the PGA Tour including the 2001 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and two FedEx Cup playoff events. His most successful season on tour came in 2009, when he had three tournament victories...

-17 (63-72-65-67=267) -16 (66-69-68-65=268)
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