Wanting to know what it take to make the pga

Question
I'm tying to figure out what tournaments a person has to enter to be eligable to play in the pga.  Is it required for a person to take lessons?  How often can a person try to get on the pga.

Answer
Hi David:

I am assuming you are referring to the PGA Tour.  With that said, you would have to enter the PGA Tour Qualifying School.  It is a series of 2, 72 hole events across the country in which the top 25% of each qualifying site (approximately 6 sites and approximately 1,000 golfers).  The people who qualify will then join PGA Tour players and Nationwide Tour players who lost their playing rights from the year before.  Then everyone goes to the final qualifying site and play 6 rounds of golf for their life.  The top 30 golfers will earn their PGA Tour rights for the next year and the rest of that field will make up the Nationwide Tour.  The entry fee just to qualify is about $5,000.  You can enter as many times as you want, it happens once per year.  If you do not have the credentials to be a golf professional, they will decline your application.  That means you must have won tournaments and show you are tournament worthy.  If you have never done this before or were hoping you could start learning how to play golf, take a few lessons and go try, you can forget it.  Golfers nowadays are brought up eating, breathing and sleeping golf.  Unless you can consistently shoot par or better and have won numerous golf tournaments, you have no chance to make it.  It is just too difficult.  But, whatever path you take, I wish you the best.  If you need help, let me know.  

Eddie Kilthau
PGA Member