2006 Nationwide Tour Graduates
Encyclopedia
This is a list of players who graduated from the Nationwide Tour
Nationwide Tour
The Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level...

 in 2006. The top 22 players on the Nationwide Tour's money list in 2006 earned their 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 for 2007.
|2006 Nationwide Tour|2007 PGA Tour
PlayerMoney list
rank
Earnings ($)StartsCuts
made
Best
finish
Money list
rank
Earnings ($)
  Ken Duke
Ken Duke
Kenneth Wootson Duke is an American professional golfer.Duke was born in Hope, Arkansas. After turning professional in 1994, Duke first qualified for the PGA Tour in 2004, but failed to keep his card and returned to the Nationwide Tour...

 
1 382,443 31 24 2nd 37 1,927,102
  Johnson Wagner
Johnson Wagner
Montford Johnson Wagner is an American professional golfer.-Professional career:Wagner is currently a member of the PGA Tour. He was a member of the Nationwide Tour from 2003 to 2006. He earned his PGA Tour card for the 2007 season by finishing 2nd on the money list in the Nationwide Tour in 2006...

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2 372,069 33 15 2nd 98 1,013,024
  Cliff Kresge
Cliff Kresge
Clifford Terry Kresge is an American professional golfer. He has played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour since 1997....

 
3 339,763 30 23 T6 113 901,549
  Craig Bowden
Craig Bowden
Craig David Bowden is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Bowden has gone back and forth between the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour during his career. He is currently a member of the PGA Tour after finishing in the top 25 on the 2009...

 
4 334,671 25 13 T9 172 333,970
  Tripp Isenhour
Tripp Isenhour
John Henry "Tripp" Isenhour III is an American professional golfer.Isenhour was born in Salisbury, North Carolina. He played golf collegiately at Georgia Tech and turned professional in 1990....

 
5 321,996 32 14 T5 152 471,980
  Jeff Quinney
Jeff Quinney
Jeffrey Michael Quinney is an American professional golfer.Quinney was born in Eugene, Oregon. He had a successful amateur career, winning the U.S. Amateur in 2000, and represented the USA in the Walker Cup in 2001....

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6 317,802 29 18 3rd 57 1,612,056
  Boo Weekley
Boo Weekley
Thomas Brent "Boo" Weekley is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Weekley was born in Milton, Florida. He turned professional in 1997 and played on mini-tours until 2002, when he qualified for the PGA Tour. He made the cut in only five of 24 events that year, and lost his...

 
7 312,843 29 20 Win 23 2,613,211
  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...

 
8 310,666 32 18 T6 140 574,992
  Brandt Snedeker
Brandt Snedeker
Brandt Snedeker is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Early years through College:Snedeker was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He was introduced to golf by his maternal grandmother, who managed a golf course in Missouri...

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9 300,918 29 23 Win 17 2,836,643
  Matt Kuchar
Matt Kuchar
Matthew Gregory Kuchar is an American professional golfer who has played on both the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour. He has ranked as high as number six in the Official World Golf Rankings.-Early career:...

 
10 300,867 26 16 T3 115 886,146
  Craig Kanada
Craig Kanada
Craig Andrew Kanada is an American professional golfer. He was born in Portland, Oregon.Kanada currently plays on the Nationwide Tour. He also played on the Nationwide Tour in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2006...

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11 297,744 34 20 T10 128 743,305
  Kevin Stadler
Kevin Stadler
Kevin Stadler is an American professional golfer.Stadler was born in Reno, Nevada, and is the son of former Masters champion and 13-time winner on the PGA Tour, Craig Stadler. He moved with his family to Denver, Colorado, where he attended Kent Denver School, excelling on the school's golf team...

 
12 294,657 31 16 T2 124 810,876
  Andrew Buckle
Andrew Buckle
Andrew Nicholas Buckle is an Australian professional golfer.Buckle was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He has a promising amateur career, including two wins in the Boy's 15-17 division at the World Junior Golf Championships and the Australian Amateur.Buckle won the 2002 Queensland Open on his...

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13 277,976 26 12 T4 146 513,630
  Jim Rutledge
Jim Rutledge
James Edgar Rutledge is a Canadian professional golfer who currently plays on the Champions Tour.Rutledge was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He won the Canadian Juvenile Championship in 1975 at the Gorge Vale Golf Club in Victoria and the Canadian Junior Championship in 1977. He turned...

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14 257,979 23 5 T31 226 62,242
  Doug LaBelle II
Doug LaBelle II
Douglas Norman LaBelle II is an American professional golfer.LaBelle is currently a member of the Nationwide Tour. He was previously a member of the Nationwide Tour from 2003 to 2006. He has also played on the Canadian Tour from 1999 to 2002 and the PGA Tour of Australasia from 2000 to 2002...

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15 240,174 33 18 T4 138 604,633
  Gavin Coles
Gavin Coles
Gavin Coles is an Australian professional golfer.Coles is currently a member of the Nationwide Tour. He was a member of the Nationwide Tour in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and the PGA Tour in 2003, 2005 and 2007.-Nationwide Tour wins :...

 
16 239,141 28 16 T9 147 511,353
  Michael Putnam
Michael Putnam
Michael John Putnam is an American professional golfer. He is currently a member of the Nationwide Tour.Putnam was born in Tacoma, Washington. He played on the Nationwide Tour in 2006. He had two 2nd place finishes on the Nationwide Tour in 2006 including losing in a playoff at the Rheem Classic....

 
17 230,049 29 19 T16 158 422,359
  Jarrod Lyle
Jarrod Lyle
Jarrod Lyle is an Australian professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.-Personal life:Lyle was born in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. He got his start in golf at age six when he caddied for his father. He says teeing off in his first Australian tournament is his biggest thrill in...

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18 227,909 24 14 T12 (twice) 164 390,303
  Michael Sim
Michael Sim
-Amateur career:Sim was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and moved to Australia when he was 5 years old. He was the top ranked amateur in the world in 2005 having won four titles during the year including the Sunnehanna Amateur, which boasts major winners Ben Crenshaw and Tommy Aaron amongst its list of...

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19 220,432 17 9 T9 162 399,900
  Paul Sheehan* 20 216,407 11 1 T64 253 10,143
  John Merrick
John Merrick (golfer)
John Sampson Merrick is an American professional golfer.Merrick was born and raised in Long Beach, California. He grew up playing Recreation Park municipal golf course, a classic layout by William F. Bell. He attended Wilson Classical High School where he won the Moore League High School...

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21 208,506 29 16 T4 135 649,438
  Bryce Molder
Bryce Molder
Bryce Wade Molder is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.-Early life:Molder was born in Harrison, Arkansas and attended public school in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Conway, Arkansas...

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22 205,413 21 7 T6 185 257,593

*PGA Tour rookie for 2007.

T = Tied

Green background indicates the player retained his PGA Tour card for 2008 (finished inside the top 125).

Yellow background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2008, but retained conditional status (finished between 126-150).

Red background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2008 (finished outside the top 150).

Winners on the PGA Tour in 2007

No.DatePlayerTournamentWinning scoreMargin of victoryRunner-up
1. Apr 16   Boo Weekley
Boo Weekley
Thomas Brent "Boo" Weekley is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Weekley was born in Milton, Florida. He turned professional in 1997 and played on mini-tours until 2002, when he qualified for the PGA Tour. He made the cut in only five of 24 events that year, and lost his...

Verizon Heritage
Verizon Heritage
The RBC Heritage, known for much of its history as the Heritage Classic, is a PGA Tour FedEx Cup event, first played in 1969. The venue has been the Harbour Town Golf Links at the Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina...

-14 (67-69-66-68=270) 1 stroke   Ernie Els
Ernie Els
Theodore Ernest "Ernie" Els is a South African professional golfer, who has been one of the top professional players in the world since the mid-1990s. A former World No. 1, he is known as "The Big Easy" due to his imposing physical stature along with his fluid, seemingly effortless golf swing...

2. Aug 19   Brandt Snedeker
Brandt Snedeker
Brandt Snedeker is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Early years through College:Snedeker was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He was introduced to golf by his maternal grandmother, who managed a golf course in Missouri...

Wyndham Championship -22 (70-67-66-63=266) 2 strokes   Billy Mayfair
Billy Mayfair
William Fred Mayfair is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour .-Early years and amateur career:Mayfair was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Before his fifteenth birthday, he had won a number of junior golf tournaments. In 1981, he was on the cover of Boys' Life magazine as "golf's...

,   Jeff Overton
Jeff Overton
Jeffrey Laurence Overton is an American professional golfer.Overton was born in Evansville, Indiana. He attended Indiana University, graduating in 2005 with a degree in Sports Marketing and Management....

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  Tim Petrovic
Tim Petrovic
Tim Petrovic is an American professional golfer.Petrovic was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. He has won one PGA Tour tournament, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in 2005....


Runners-up on the PGA Tour in 2007

No.DatePlayerTournamentWinnerWinning scoreRunner-up score
1. Mar 5   Boo Weekley
Boo Weekley
Thomas Brent "Boo" Weekley is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Weekley was born in Milton, Florida. He turned professional in 1997 and played on mini-tours until 2002, when he qualified for the PGA Tour. He made the cut in only five of 24 events that year, and lost his...


Lost in four-man playoff
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...

  Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson (golfer)
Mark Joseph Wilson is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Wilson was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and currently resides in Elmhurst, Illinois.-Professional career:...

-5 (72-66-66-71=275) -5 (71-68-66-70=275)
2. Apr 22   Ken Duke
Ken Duke
Kenneth Wootson Duke is an American professional golfer.Duke was born in Hope, Arkansas. After turning professional in 1994, Duke first qualified for the PGA Tour in 2004, but failed to keep his card and returned to the Nationwide Tour...

Zurich Classic of New Orleans
Zurich Classic of New Orleans
The Zurich Classic of New Orleans is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It is played annually in New Orleans, Louisiana; its historic date has been in April, but was moved to March in 2008. Zurich Financial Services is the main sponsor of the tournament.From the event's inception through...

  Nick Watney
Nick Watney
Nicholas Alan Watney is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. The highlight of Watney's career to date is his victory at the 2011 WGC-Cadillac Championship....

-15 (69-67-68-69=273) -12 (69-71-66-70=276)
3. Aug 5   Kevin Stadler
Kevin Stadler
Kevin Stadler is an American professional golfer.Stadler was born in Reno, Nevada, and is the son of former Masters champion and 13-time winner on the PGA Tour, Craig Stadler. He moved with his family to Denver, Colorado, where he attended Kent Denver School, excelling on the school's golf team...

Reno-Tahoe Open
Reno-Tahoe Open
The Reno-Tahoe Open is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in northwestern Nevada. Founded in 1999, it is an alternate event played annually in August at the , located midway between Reno and Lake Tahoe. Opened in 1997, the par-72 course was designed by Jack Nicklaus and plays at ; its...

  Steve Flesch
Steve Flesch
Stephen J. Flesch is an American professional golfer, competing on the PGA Tour.Flesch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Kentucky. After graduation he played golf at the University of Kentucky and turned professional in 1990.Flesch finished in...

-15 (63-69-69-72=273) -10 (74-67-67-70=278)
4. Sep 30   Johnson Wagner
Johnson Wagner
Montford Johnson Wagner is an American professional golfer.-Professional career:Wagner is currently a member of the PGA Tour. He was a member of the Nationwide Tour from 2003 to 2006. He earned his PGA Tour card for the 2007 season by finishing 2nd on the money list in the Nationwide Tour in 2006...

Viking Classic   Chad Campbell
Chad Campbell
David Chad Campbell is an American professional golfer.-Early years and amateur career:Campbell was born in Andrews, Texas and grew up in west Texas. He was a member of a strong junior college men's golf squad during the years he played at Midland College...

-13 (70-72-64-69=275) -12 (73-65-68-70=276)

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