Many people want to play golf like professional golfers. The road to becoming a great golfer can be long, and requires years of hard work. To be a professional golfer, you need to have a very low handicap golfer or a scratch golfer. Compete in local amateur golf tournaments. If you are competitive in these tournaments, start playing state level amateur tournaments. Next you will have to compete in mini-tour events, you can play in mini-tour events as an amateur or you can declare yourself a professional golfer. If you play as an amateur, you cannot accept the money you win. If you make it this far, you will compete in the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament. This tournament is also commonly known as Q-school or Qualifying School. In this tournament there is a pre-qualification round and three phases. If a golfer makes it to the final round of the tournament and does not qualify for a PGA Tour card, he or she can play on the Nationwide Tour. The top 25 golfers in the final round earn PGA Tour cards. The Web.com Tour is the developmental tour of the PGA Tour and features professional golfers who ...