A Monday qualifier is a

stroke play Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes. In stroke play, the winner is the player who has taken the fewest strokes over the ...

golf tournament held on the Monday before a professional golf tournament that awards top finishers entry into the professional tournament. Those who enter the Monday qualifiers are those with no status on the tour sponsoring the event or too far down the tour's priority list to earn direct entry. The players who earn entry into the professional tournament in this manner are also called Monday qualifiers. In the United States, both the

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and

Korn Ferry Tour The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either not yet reached the PGA Tour, or who have done so but then failed to win enough FedEx Cup points to stay at that level. Th ...

offer Monday qualifiers for most events. On the

, 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

Monday qualifier is an additional $200. The

awards four spots via Monday qualifying in most events, excluding those classified as invitationals and majors, although the USGA and R&A have qualifying rounds for the U.S. Open and The Open. On the

, the entry fee for a Monday qualifier is $450; there is no pre-qualifier. The Korn Ferry Tour awards spots in the main professional tournament to the top 12-14 finishers in the Monday qualifier depending on the tournament. Since the PGA Tour's standard number of Monday qualifiers was reduced to four in 1983, four Monday qualifiers have gone on to win the tournament: Two Monday qualifiers have won on the LPGA Tour:

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at the 2000 State Farm Rail Classic and

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at the 2015 Cambia Portland Classic. The feat is more common on the Korn Ferry Tour, having happened three times since 2011:

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at the 2011

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at the 2014

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, and

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at the 2016

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. Monday qualifiers have won 14 times on PGA Tour Champions – Dicky Pride the most recent, at the 2021 Mitsubishi Electric Classic.

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