2001 Buy.com Tour graduates

This is a list of players who graduated from the Buy.com Tour in 2001. The top 15 players on the Buy.com Tour's money list in 2001 earned their PGA Tour card for 2002.

	2001 Buy.com Tour		2002 PGA Tour
Player	Money list rank	Earnings ($)	Starts	Cuts made	Best finish	Money list rank	Earnings ($)
Chad Campbell*#	1	394,552	34	21	03 !T3	81	825,474
Pat Bates#	2	352,261	29	17	06 !T6	123	537,284
Heath Slocum*#	3	339,670	32	15	02 !2	76	864,615
Rod Pampling*	4	271,169	29	19	04 !T4	89	776,903
Deane Pappas	5	245,265	34	11	02 !2	129	494,404
John Rollins	6	242,841	34	27	01 !Win	25	1,956,565
Tim Petrovic*	7	239,010	31	15	02 !2	86	797,206
Jonathan Byrd*	8	222,244	32	15	01 !Win	39	1,462,713
Jeff Gove	9	198,812	30	14	10 !T10	162	271,652
Brenden Pappas*	10	188,152	25	6	27 !T27	206	83,519
Bo Van Pelt	11	175,947	28	10	25 !T25	191	139,357
Matt Peterson*	12	169,947	27	13	10 !T10	164	266,543
Richard Zokol	13	167,192	20	6	38 !T38	215	53,437
Jason Hill*	14	166,899	24	6	14 !T14 (twice)	188	150,860
Michael Long*	15	161,665	27	9	15 !T15	183	157,723

*PGA Tour rookie for 2002.
#Campbell, Bates and Slocum received battlefield promotions to the PGA Tour in 2001 by winning three tournaments on the Buy.com Tour in 2001, becoming only the second, third and fourth players to do so. On the 2001 PGA Tour, their respective results were:

• Campbell - played three tournaments, with two missed cuts and a solo second at the Southern Farm Bureau Classic.
• Bates - played no tournaments.
• Slocum - played eight tournaments, making six cuts with a best finish of T-37 at the Southern Farm Bureau Classic.

T = Tied
Green background indicates the player retained his PGA Tour card for 2003 (finished inside the top 125).
Yellow background indicates player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2003, but retained conditional status (finished between 126–150).
Red background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2003 (finished outside the top 150).

Winners on the PGA Tour in 2002

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	Sep 8	John Rollins	Bell Canadian Open	−16 (70-71-66-65=272)	Playoff	Neal Lancaster, Justin Leonard
2	Oct 27	Jonathan Byrd	Buick Challenge	−27 (67-66-65-63=261)	1 stroke	David Toms

Runners-up on the PGA Tour in 2002

No.	Date	Player	Tournament	Winner	Winning score	Runner-up score
1	Apr 21	Heath Slocum	WorldCom Classic - The Heritage of Golf	Justin Leonard	−14 (67-64-66-73=270)	−13 (67-68-66-70=271)
2	Jun 30	Tim Petrovic	FedEx St. Jude Classic	Len Mattiace	−18 (69-68-65-64=266)	−17 (65-68-66-68=267)
3	Nov 4	Deane Pappas	Southern Farm Bureau Classic	Luke Donald	−15 (66-68-67=201)	−14 (66-68-68=202)

See also

• 2001 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates

References

• Money list
• Player profiles