1965 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates explained

This is a list of the 1965 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates.

There were 49 players at the 1965 event.[1] [2] [3] The school began on Monday October 25 and lasted 10 days in total. During the first three days, the players exclusively attended lectures. The topics included player conduct, the rules of golf, the relationship between golf and the law, and a number of other issues. Professional golfers like Chick Harbert, Jack Burke Jr., and Dave Marr provided the lectures.[4]

On Thursday October 28, the golf tournament proper began. It was played at PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida over 144 holes and lasted one week.[3] Seventeen players graduated.[3] [5]

According to Billy Booe, PGA Tournament Administrator, "it was not an impressive group" of graduates. As of May 1966, only 4 of the 17 of them had made any money on tour and only two of them had been in the money multiple times.[6]

PlacePlayerNotes
1
2 John Josephson
3 Richard Canon
4 Ron Gillespie
align=center rowspan=2T5 Richard Killian
Bob Rose
7 Dave Marad
align=center rowspan=2T8 Randy Petri
Dave Philo
align=center rowspan=2T10 Jimmy Fetters
Laurie Hammer
align=center rowspan=3T12 Stanley Brion
Roy Siegel Jr.
Frank Whibley
align=center rowspan=3T15
William Giese
James Langley
Source:[7]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1966-09-11 . Puett To Attend Pro School for Golf Tour . D10 . Austin American-Statesman . Chuck . Clark . 2021-06-22 . newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1968-08-23 . School Screens Pro Hopefuls; Must Pass Tough 144-Hole Test . 44 . The Hartford Courant . Billy . Booe . 2021-06-22 . newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: December 7, 2009 . Past champions: PGA Tour National Qualifying Tournament . PGA Tour . https://web.archive.org/web/20121026131549/http://www.pgatour.com/2009/qschool/12/07/past.winners/index.html . October 26, 2012.
  4. News: 1965-10-26 . PGA Sends Pros To School . Johnny . Wilson . 5B . The Miami News . 2021-06-21 . newspapers.com.
  5. News: 17 Qualify For Golf's Pro Tour . Great Falls Tribune . Montana . Associated Press . November 5, 1965 . 15 . newspapers.com . subscription.
  6. News: 1966-05-26 . About Golf . Gary . Campbell . 41 . Oregon Statesman . 2021-06-22 . newspapers.com.
  7. Book: Gould, David . Q-School Confidential: Inside Golf's Cruelest Tournament . St. Martin's Press . 1999 . 978-0312203559 . New York . 238.