2008 Nationwide Tour Graduates
This is a list of players who graduated from the Nationwide Tour in 2008. The top 25 players on the Nationwide Tour's money list in 2008 earned their PGA Tour card for 2009.
| 2008 Nationwide Tour | 2009 PGA Tour | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Money list rank |
Earnings ($) | Starts | Cuts made |
Best finish |
Money list rank |
Earnings ($) | |
| Matt Bettencourt* | 1 | 447,863 | 31 | 17 | T5 | 111 | 740,037 | |
| Brendon de Jonge | 2 | 437,035 | 29 | 16 | T7 | 139 | 536,696 | |
| Jeff Klauk* | 3 | 407,418 | 29 | 21 | 4th/T4 (twice) | 71 | 1,243,696 | |
| Jarrod Lyle | 4 | 382,738 | 21 | 11 | T6 | 175 | 275,195 | |
| Bill Lunde* | 5 | 341,446 | 27 | 15 | T4 | 102 | 825,691 | |
| Colt Knost | 6 | 329,509 | 24 | 11 | T25 | 193 | 180,754 | |
| Darron Stiles | 7 | 324,627 | 20 | 6 | T9 | 188 | 199,385 | |
| Greg Chalmers | 8 | 321,930 | 26 | 15 | T2 | 89 | 1,058,286 | |
| Scott Piercy | 9 | 320,187 | 28 | 16 | T5 | 90 | 1,032,716 | |
| Greg Owen | 10 | 309,805 | 30 | 19 | T9 | 109 | 763,517 | |
| Peter Tomasulo | 11 | 296,704 | 25 | 5 | T16 | 201 | 128,706 | |
| Rick Price* | 12 | 284,922 | 21 | 6 | T54 | 216 | 66,689 | |
| Kris Blanks* | 13 | 280,588 | 20 | 9 | T7 | 170 | 307,130 | |
| David Mathis | 14 | 276,412 | 27 | 15 | T17 | 160 | 364,959 | |
| Casey Wittenberg | 15 | 271,919 | 25 | 10 | T7 | 159 | 376,076 | |
| D. A. Points | 16 | 266,696 | 29 | 19 | 3rd | 66 | 1,320,021 | |
| Arjun Atwal | 17 | 259,186 | 12 | 4 | T33 | 209 | 76,676 | |
| Aron Price | 18 | 249,144 | 27 | 20 | T6 | 144 | 487,454 | |
| Marc Leishman* | T19 | 244,224 | 28 | 18 | T2 | 47 | 1,742,243 | |
| Brendon Todd* | T19 | 244,224 | 21 | 5 | T12 | 186 | 203,841 | |
| Scott Gutschewski | 21 | 238,215 | 19 | 5 | T17 | 192 | 183,375 | |
| Spencer Levin* | 22 | 236,185 | 25 | 13 | T7 | 141 | 531,240 | |
| Bryce Molder | 23 | 234,631 | 21 | 13 | T2 | 63 | 1,381,211 | |
| Matt Weibring | 24 | 228,155 | 22 | 11 | T8 | 138 | 542,066 | |
| Ricky Barnes* | 25 | 218,902 | 23 | 11 | T2 | 120 | 684,863 | |
*PGA Tour rookie for 2009.
T = Tied
Green background indicates the player retained his PGA Tour card for 2010 (finished inside the top 125).
Yellow background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2010, but retained conditional status (finished between 126-150).
Red background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2010 (finished outside the top 150).
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