2010 Nationwide Tour Graduates
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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 2010. The top 25 players on the Nationwide Tour's money list in 2010 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 2011.
|2010 Nationwide Tour|2011 PGA Tour
PlayerMoney list
rank
Earnings ($)StartsCuts
made
Best
finish
Money list
rank
Earnings
  Jamie Lovemark
Jamie Lovemark
Jamie Lovemark is an American professional golfer.-Amateur career:Lovemark was born in Rancho Santa Fe, California and attended Torrey Pines High School. He won the 2005 Western Amateur and therefore received a special exemption into the Cialis Western Open, where he finished T54. He also played...

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1 452,951 9 2 T28 231 $34,693
  Chris Kirk
Chris Kirk
Chris Kirk is an American professional golfer.Kirk was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, but subsequently lived in Woodstock, Georgia. He played college golf at the University of Georgia and was a member of their 2005 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship team along with Kevin Kisner, Richard Scott...

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2 411,206 28 15 Win 45 $1,877,627
  Hunter Haas
Hunter Haas
Hunter Haas is an American professional golfer.Haas was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He won the 1999 U.S. Amateur Public Links. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2000 and turned professional....

 
3 408,047 30 18 T3 89 $1,039,987
  Tommy Gainey
Tommy Gainey
Tommy Gainey , also known as "Two Gloves", is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour.-Early pro career:Gainey was born in Darlington, South Carolina. He attended the Central Carolina Technical College just outside of Darlington...

 
4 403,957 34 17 3 /T3 (4 times) 35 $2,174,191
  Daniel Summerhays
Daniel Summerhays
Daniel Summerhays is an American professional golfer. His brother Boyd Summerhays currently plays on the Nationwide Tour. He is the nephew of Champions Tour player Bruce Summerhays and cousin of former LPGA Tour golfer Carrie Roberts....

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5 391,742 29 8 T11 171 $301,899
  Brendan Steele
Brendan Steele
Brendan Steele is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Steele was born in Idyllwild, California. He played college golf at the University of California, Riverside, graduating in 2005.-Professional career:...

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6 346,258 27 16 Win 38 $1,976,310
  Jhonattan Vegas
Jhonattan Vegas
Jhonattan Vegas is a Venezuelan professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Vegas was born in Maturín, Venezuela. He played college golf at the University of Texas....

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7 336,334 25 18 Win 46 $1,854,414
  Martin Piller
Martin Piller
Martin Piller is an American professional golfer.Piller was born in Dallas, Texas and grew up in Duncanville, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University. He turned professional in 2008 and won his first start as a pro at the Texas State Open.Piller has played on the Nationwide Tour since 2009...

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8 331,927 23 7 T23 204 $140,958
  Kevin Chappell
Kevin Chappell
Kevin Alan Chappell is an American professional golfer who is currently playing on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Chappell was born in Fresno, California. He attended UCLA where he won the Jack Nicklaus Award as the collegiate player of the year in 2008. He also won the Arnold Palmer Award for...

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9 326,507 26 13 T2 66 $1,339,640
  Tag Ridings
Tag Ridings
Taggart Twain Ridings is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour.Ridings was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His father, an Oklahoma club professional, started him in golf...

 
10 282,616 28 15 T13 156 $382,670
  Kevin Kisner
Kevin Kisner
Kevin Kisner is an American professional golfer.Kisner was born in Aiken, South Carolina. He played college golf at the University of Georgia and was a member of their 2005 NCAA Division I Championship team along with Chris Kirk, Richard Scott and Brendon Todd...

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11 279,292 24 10 T12 181 $270,170
  Fabián Gómez* 12 265,390 26 16 T7 157 $381,730
  David Mathis
David Mathis
David Mathis is an American professional golfer.Mathis was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He played college golf at Campbell University. He turned professional in 1997....

 
13 265,385 25 16 T8 118 $715,404
  Keegan Bradley
Keegan Bradley
Keegan Bradley is an American professional golfer who is a rookie on the PGA Tour. He has won two tour events, most notably the 2011 PGA Championship...

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14 264,760 28 18 Win (twice) 13 $3,758,600
  Colt Knost
Colt Knost
Colt Knost is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Knost was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Pilot Point, Texas. He was the Class 3A State Champion his senior year of 2003. He graduated from Southern Methodist University in 2007. While at SMU,...

 
15 261,090 27 12 T15 174 $296,817
  Bobby Gates* 16 259,401 29 11 T5 126 $666,735
  Steven Bowditch
Steven Bowditch
Steven Bowditch is an Australian professional golfer who currently plays on the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia....

 
17 257,283 28 15 T9 132 $621,378
  D. J. Brigman
D. J. Brigman
David Franklin "D. J." Brigman, Jr. is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour....

 
18 246,769 23 10 T16 190 $191,491
  Jim Herman
Jim Herman
James Robert Herman is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Herman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He played golf at St. Xavier High School and graduated in 1996. Herman played college golf at the University of Cincinnati. He turned professional in 2000.Herman played on the...

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19 238,847 22 13 T22 189 $196,845
  Scott Gutschewski
Scott Gutschewski
Scott Gutschewski is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Gutschewski was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He played college golf at the University of Nebraska and helped lead the Huskers to a 14th-place finish at the NCAA Championships in his senior year...

 
20 236,082 23 12 T18 183 $229,758
  David Hearn  21 230,440 26 19 T5 104 $869,072
  Joe Affrunti
Joe Affrunti
Joe Affrunti is an American professional golfer.Affrunti turned professional in 2004. He joined the Nationwide Tour in 2010, and earned his 2011 PGA Tour card by finishing 22nd on the money list, with two runner-up finishes...

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22 229,433 6 2 T50 243 $18,837
  Peter Tomasulo
Peter Tomasulo
Peter Tomasulo is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Tomasulo was born in Long Beach, California. He attended the University of California and in 2004 was named a first team All-American and captained the University of California's NCAA championship team...

 
23 223,812 12 5 T22 209 $115,817
  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....

 
24 220,277 21 13 T12 153 $398,400
  Justin Hicks
Justin Hicks
Justin Hicks is an American professional golfer.Hicks was born in Wyandotte, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan and currently plays on the Nationwide Tour....

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25 209,259 23 7 T14 179 $284,990

*PGA Tour rookie in 2011


Green background indicates the player retained his PGA Tour card for 2012 through a win or finish in the Top 125 of the money list.

Yellow background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2012, but retained conditional status (finished between 126-150).

Red background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2012 (finished outside the top 150).

Winners on the PGA Tour in 2011

No. Date Player Tournament Winning Score Margin of Victory Runners-up
1. Jan 23   Jhonattan Vegas
Jhonattan Vegas
Jhonattan Vegas is a Venezuelan professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.Vegas was born in Maturín, Venezuela. He played college golf at the University of Texas....


Bob Hope Classic -27 (64-67-67-66-69=333) Playoff   Bill Haas
Bill Haas
William Harlan Haas is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and won the 2011 FedEx Cup. He is the son of former PGA Tour player Jay Haas.-Early life:...

,   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...

2. Apr 17   Brendan Steele
Brendan Steele
Brendan Steele is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Steele was born in Idyllwild, California. He played college golf at the University of California, Riverside, graduating in 2005.-Professional career:...


Valero Texas Open
Valero Texas Open
The Valero Texas Open is an official tournament on the PGA Tour. It dates back to 1922 when it was first called the Texas Open; San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corporation took over naming rights in 2002. It is played at The Oaks Course at the TPC San Antonio. In 2003, it was the site of the...

-8 (69-72-68-71=280) 1 stroke   Kevin Chappell
Kevin Chappell
Kevin Alan Chappell is an American professional golfer who is currently playing on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Chappell was born in Fresno, California. He attended UCLA where he won the Jack Nicklaus Award as the collegiate player of the year in 2008. He also won the Arnold Palmer Award for...

,   Charley Hoffman
Charley Hoffman
Charley Lindley Hoffman is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Hoffman was born in San Diego, California. He won the California State High School Championship in 1994 and 1995, becoming the first two time winner. He qualified three times for the Buick...

3. May 29   Keegan Bradley
Keegan Bradley
Keegan Bradley is an American professional golfer who is a rookie on the PGA Tour. He has won two tour events, most notably the 2011 PGA Championship...


HP Byron Nelson Championship -8 (66-71-72-68=277) Playoff   Ryan Palmer
Ryan Palmer
Ryan Palmer is a chess player of Jamaican origin; he was the Jamaican National Champion in 1992. During the academic years of 2004-2007, he taught mathematics at Adams' Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire, and now has moved to the United States, to pursue further studies...

4. July 17   Chris Kirk
Chris Kirk
Chris Kirk is an American professional golfer.Kirk was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, but subsequently lived in Woodstock, Georgia. He played college golf at the University of Georgia and was a member of their 2005 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship team along with Kevin Kisner, Richard Scott...


Viking Classic -22 (67-67-64-68=266) 1 stroke   Tom Pernice, Jr.,   George McNeill
George McNeill
George William McNeill, Jr. is an American professional golfer.McNeill was born and raised in Naples, Florida. He attended Florida State University, where he was a member of the golf team. He was an All-ACC and All-America selection in 1997 and 1998.McNeill is currently a member of the PGA Tour...

5. Aug 14   Keegan Bradley
Keegan Bradley
Keegan Bradley is an American professional golfer who is a rookie on the PGA Tour. He has won two tour events, most notably the 2011 PGA Championship...


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 (71-64-68-68=272) Playoff   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...


Runners-up on the PGA Tour in 2011

No.DatePlayerTournamentWinnerWinning scoreRunner-up score
1. Apr 3   Chris Kirk
Chris Kirk
Chris Kirk is an American professional golfer.Kirk was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, but subsequently lived in Woodstock, Georgia. He played college golf at the University of Georgia and was a member of their 2005 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship team along with Kevin Kisner, Richard Scott...

Shell Houston Open
Shell Houston Open
The Shell Houston Open is a regular golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It is currently played in April at Redstone Golf Club in the Houston suburb of Humble, Texas. Shell and the Houston Golf Association are the main sponsors of the tournament...

  Phil Mickelson
Phil Mickelson
Philip Alfred Mickelson is an American professional golfer. He has won four major championships and a total of 39 events on the PGA Tour. He has reached a career high world ranking of 2nd in multiple years. He is nicknamed "Lefty" for his left-handed swing, even though he is otherwise right-handed...

-20 (70-70-63-65=268) -17 (66-69-69-67=271)
2. Apr 17   Kevin Chappell
Kevin Chappell
Kevin Alan Chappell is an American professional golfer who is currently playing on the PGA Tour.-Amateur career:Chappell was born in Fresno, California. He attended UCLA where he won the Jack Nicklaus Award as the collegiate player of the year in 2008. He also won the Arnold Palmer Award for...

Valero Texas Open
Valero Texas Open
The Valero Texas Open is an official tournament on the PGA Tour. It dates back to 1922 when it was first called the Texas Open; San Antonio-based Valero Energy Corporation took over naming rights in 2002. It is played at The Oaks Course at the TPC San Antonio. In 2003, it was the site of the...

  Brendan Steele
Brendan Steele
Brendan Steele is an American professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.Steele was born in Idyllwild, California. He played college golf at the University of California, Riverside, graduating in 2005.-Professional career:...

-8 (69-72-68-71=280) -7 (68-73-70-70=281)

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