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. 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]

The players who earn entry into the professional tournament in this manner are also called Monday qualifiers.

On a rare occasion, a Monday qualifier will win a professional tournament. Notable champions who went through Monday qualifiers include Fred Wadsworth at the 1986 Southern Open,^[3] Ted Potter, Jr. at the 2011 South Georgia Classic, Sebastian Cappelen at the 2014 Air Capital Classic on the Web.com Tour, and Arjun Atwal at the 2010 Wyndham Championship on the PGA Tour. Laurel Kean and Brooke Henderson were Monday qualifiers who won on the LPGA Tour.

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