- Geoff Ogilvy
Geoff Ogilvy (born June 11 1977) is an Australian golfer who now resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, in the United States. Ogilvy was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He turned professional in May of 1998 and he won a European Tour card at that year's Qualifying school. He played on the European Tour in 1999 and 2000, finishing 65th in his first season and improving to 48th in his second. He joined the U.S. based PGA Tour in 2001, …
- Stephen Ames
Stephen Ames is a golfer on the PGA Tour holding dual citizenship of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada. Ames was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago and is of English/Trinidadian Portuguese descent, and much of his family resides in the Caribbean nation. His grandmother was Trinidad and Tobago Champion 20 times. He grew up in Pointe-à-Pierre and learned to play at the Petrotrin Pointe-à-Pierre Golf Club.
- Ai Miyazato
is a professional golfer who currently competes on the US-based LPGA Tour and the Japan LPGA Tour (JLPGA) As an amateur in 2003, she won a professional event on the Japan LPGA Tour – the Dunlop Ladies Open in Miyagi Prefecture, which is where she was attending high school at the time. In her 2004 rookie season on the JLPGA Tour she won five tournaments. In February 2005, she represented Japan along with Rui Kitada winning the inaugural Women's World Cup of Golf.
- Jeev Milkha Singh
Jeev Milkha Singh (born 15 December 1971) was the first Indian golfer to become a member of the European Tour. Jeev is the highest ranked Indian golfer in the world, breaking into the top 100 in October 2006. He is the son of the famous Indian athlete Milkha Singh. Singh lives in the city of Chandigarh. Singh attended Abilene Christian University in the United States of America and won the NCAA Division II individual golf championship in 1993.
- Nick Dougherty
Nick Dougherty is an English golfer. He is a protégé of Nick Faldo and had an exceptional amateur career with numerous tournament wins including the 1999 World Boys Championship and three in Faldo Junior Series events. He was a member of the victorious Great Britain and Ireland 2001 Walker Cup team. Dougherty turned professional in 2001 and gained membership of the European Tour via the 2001 Qualifying School. He won the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year Award for 2002.
- Todd Hamilton
William Todd Hamilton (born October 18, 1965) is an American professional golfer. Hamilton was born in the small west-central Illinois city of Galesburg. He grew up in an even smaller Henderson County town on the Mississippi called Oquawka. He attended Union High School in Biggsville, IL and played golf regularly on the local 9-hole golf course (now an 18 holes), Hend-Co Hills. He went to the University of Oklahoma for college where he continued to play.
- Sean O'Hair
Sean O'Hair (born July 11, 1982) is an American professional golfer. O'Hair was born in Lubbock, Texas. Unlike the vast majority of contemporary American professional golfers, O'Hair did not go to college. He turned professional in 1999 after his junior year at high school under the controversial control and direction of his father, Marc O'Hair, who sold his share of the family shutter business in Lubbock for $2.75 million to develop Sean into a touring pro.
- J. B. Holmes
John B. "J.B." Holmes (born April 26, 1982) is an American golfer. Holmes was born in Campbellsville, Kentucky. He attended the University of Kentucky and represented the United States in the 2005 Walker Cup before turning professional later that year. Holmes won the 2005 PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament. He tied for tenth in his first PGA Tour start at the 2006 Sony Open in Hawaii and in February that year he won the FBR Open, …
- Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy (born May 4, 1989) is an amateur golfer from Holywood, Northern Ireland. His home golf club is Holywood Golf Club. McIlroy was a member of Europe's winning 2004 Junior Ryder Cup team. In 2005 he became the youngest ever winner of both the West of Ireland Championship and the Irish Close Championship. He retained the West of Ireland Championship in 2006 and followed that up with back to back wins at the Irish Close Championship.
- Carl Pettersson
Carl Pettersson (born on 29 August 1977) is a Swedish golfer. Pettersson was born in Gothenburg. His father was a Volvo executive who was transferred internationally, so Carl lived in England from ages ten to fourteen and spent his last two high school years in Greensboro, North Carolina in the United States. He went on to attend North Carolina State University. Pettersson turned professional in 2000.
- Andrew Buckle
Andrew Buckle (24 September 1982) is an Australian golfer. Buckle was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He has a promising amateur career, including two wins in the Boy's 15-17 division at the World Junior Golf Championships and one Australian Amateur Championship. He won the 2002 Queensland Open on his professional debut. As a professional he has plied his trade all over the world, including time on the PGA Tour of Australasia and appearances in Europe and Japan.
- Oliver Fisher
Oliver Fisher (born 9 September 1988) is an English golfer who plays on the European Tour. Fisher is regarded as one of the best prospects of recent years. He was a winner of the Faldo Series, Nick Faldo's development programme for young golfers, in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and in 2005 he became the youngest player to take part in the Walker Cup. In late 2006 he competed at the European Tour Qualifying School as an amateur.
- Greg Chalmers
Greg Chalmers (born 11 October 1973) is an Australian golfer. Chalmers was born in Sydney. He won the 1993 Australian Amateur Championship and the 1994 French Amateur Championship. He turned professional in 1995 and made a strong start to his professional career, winning four times in Australia in the next few years, including the 1998 Australian Open. In Europe he won the second-tier Challenge Tour's seasonal finale, the Challenge Tour Championship, …
- Carlos Rodiles
Carlos Rodiles (born 3 May, 1975) is a Spanish golfer. He played college golf in the United States before turning professional in 1997. He first qualified for the European Tour at the 1998 Qualifying School. He lost it after finishing 162 on the Order of Merit in his 1999 rookie season, but regained it by finishing third on the second tier Challenge Tour in 2000. His best season through 2005 was 2003, when he finished 24th on the European Tour Order of Merit.
- Brian Bateman
Brian Bateman (born February 25, 1973) is an American professional golfer, who currently plays on the PGA Tour. Bateman was born in Monroe, Louisiana. He played collegiately at Louisiana State University (LSU) where he graduated in 1996 with a degree in marketing. He turned professional in 1996. Bateman played on the Nationwide Tour from 1997 to 2001, winning once. Bateman has played on the PGA Tour since 2002 after finishing T-32 at Q-school in 2001.
- Jason Day
Jason Day (born 12 November 1987) is a part-Filipino Australian professional golfer. As an amateur, Day accumulated a great deal of success in Australia, twice being awarded the Australian Junior Order of Merit. He finished seventh and was the leading amateur at the Queensland Open Championship. His amateur success extended to the United States, where he won the Boys 15-17 division at the 2004 Callaway World Junior Championship and was runner-up in the 2005 Porter Cup.
- Philip Golding
Philip Golding (born 25 July 1962) is an English golfer. As a boy he was a promising cricketer who played for Middlesex Colts, but he switched to golf and turned professional in 1981. For many years his career was a struggle. He was a regular at the European Tour Qualifying School (in 2002 he set a record by appearing in that event for the 16th time), and often won a tour card, …
- Casey Martin
Casey Martin (born June 2, 1972 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American professional golfer. He still resides in Eugene. He was educated at Stanford University, and was briefly a teammate of Tiger Woods. He was three times all Pac-10 and was a member of the University's NCAA-champion 1994 team. He turned pro in 1995. Martin suffers from a birth defect in his left leg known as Klippel Trenaunay Weber syndrome.
- Francesco Molinari
Francesco Molinari (born 8 November, 1982) is an Italian golfer. Molinari became a professional in 2004, and, at that season's qualifying school, earned full status on the PGA European Tour for the 2005 season, in which he ultimately finished in eighty-sixth place in the Tour's Order of Merit standings. In May 2006, Molinari claimed his first Tour victory, becoming the first Italian since Massimo Mannelli in 1980 to win the Telecom Italia Open.
- Richard McEvoy
Richard McEvoy (born 1979) is a English golfer. He was born in Shoeburyness, Essex in England, and is a member of Thorpe Hall Golf Club in Thorpe Bay. His amateur wins included the 2001 Lytham Trophy, and the 2001 Irish Amateur Open Stroke Play Championship, and he was a member of the 2001 Great Britain & Ireland Walker Cup team. He turned professional in late 2001 and won a European Tour card at 2003's Qualifying School.
- Gary Emerson
Gary Emerson (born 26 September 1963) is an English golfer. He turned professional in 1982 and after regular trips to Qualifying School finally made it onto the European Tour in 1995. He has won the 1998 Netcom Norwegian Open on the second-tier Challenge Tour and the 2004 Cadillac Russian Open on the main European Tour. 2005 was his best season to date, with a seventy-second place finish on the European Tour Order of Merit, but he is on course to surpass that in 2006, …
- Denis O'Sullivan
Denis O'Sullivan (born 11 March 1948) is an Irish golfer. He won the 1985 Irish Amateur Closed and the 1990 Irish Amateur Stroke Play, but didn't turn professional until 1997, when he decided to try to qualify for the European Seniors Tour. He came through the European Seniors Tour Qualifying School at his first attempt and became one of the tour's most consistent players. He has won six seniors events and finished in the top ten on the Order of Merit several times, …
- Per-Ulrik Johansson
Per-Ulrik Johansson (born 6 December 1966) is a Swedish golfer. Like many European golfers he took a golf scholarship in the United States as sports scholarships do not exist in Europe. He attended the Arizona State University and was a member of the same NCAA Championship winning team as Phil Mickelson. Johansson turned professional later in 1990 and won a European Tour card on his first visit to Qualifying School. He was the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year in 1991.
- Frankie Minoza
Frankie Minoza (born 29 December 1959) is a golfer from the Philippines. He has won a number of events in Asia outside Japan, but has spent most of his prime, and had his most notable success, on the Japan Golf Tour. In 1998 he featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. In 2005, after losing his Japanese tour card, he joined the Asian Tour for the first time since its formal establishment in 1995.
- Boonchu Ruangkit
Boonchu Ruangkit is a Thai golfer who plays on the Asian Tour. He was born in Thailand on 12 May 1956. As a young man he tried for a career in kick boxing, but he gave it up after being knocked out cold in his third bout. He made his mark in golf when he won the 1985 Australian Amateur Championship and he turned professional the following year. He has won five titles on the Asian Tour since its first modern season in 1995, and has several other victories to his name.
- Pedro Linhart
Pedro Linhart (born 30 December 1962) is a professional golfer. He was born Las Palmas, Spain to American parents, and took out Spanish citizenship in the 1980s. He turned professional in 1982, and after a failed visit to European Tour Qualifying School in 1986 he spent time working as an assistant pro in New Jersey and playing on the mini-tour circuit in the United States. He won a European Tour card at his second attempt and was a 1994 rookie on the tour.
- Brandt Jobe
Brandt William Jobe (born August 1, 1965) is an American golfer. Jobe was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He attended UCLA where he was a member of the 1988 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships winning team. He turned professional in 1988. In 1990, Jobe led the order of merit on the Canadian Tour. He won membership of the PGA Tour for 1991 via Qualifying School, but only made five cuts that year.
- Lee Sung
Lee Sung, also known as Lee Sung-man, (born 16 January, 1980; family name Lee) is a South Korean golfer. Lee played on the Nationwide Tour in the United States from 2000 to 2003. After losing his card on that tour in 2003, he was successful at the Asian Tour's qualifying school in January 2004, and he has played mainly in Asia since then. He picked up his first tour victory at the 2007 Bangkok Airways Open. Lee was born deaf.
- David Branshaw
David Sean Branshaw (born September 25, 1969) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the PGA Tour. Branshaw was born in Oswego, New York. Branshaw turned professional in 1991, and competed on the Nationwide Tour in 1997, 2002, 2003, and 2005. In 2003, he earned his PGA Tour card by finishing T4 at Q-School. Branshaw struggled in his first year on Tour, and failed to retain his playing card.
- Craig Perks
Craig Perks (born January 6, 1967) is a professional golfer from New Zealand who plays on the PGA Tour. Perks was born in Palmerston North. He took a golf scholarship to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then named the University of Southwestern Louisiana) in the United States. He turned professional in 1993, and played on the second tier Nike Tour for several seasons.
- Tom Johnson
Tom Johnson (born August 19, 1981) is an American professional golfer. Johnson was born in Sacramento, California. He turned professional in 2004 after graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in History. He enjoyed success right away winning medalist honors at the 2004 Canadian Tour Fall Qualifying Tournament in Ashburn, Ontario (northeast of Toronto).
- Bill Longmuir
Bill Longmuir (born 10 June 1953) is a British golfer. He was born in Thundersley, Essex, England and has lived there all his life in England but his parents are Scottish and he regards himself as Scottish and is classified as such for international competition. He turned professional in 1968 and was a regular on the European Tour from 1976 to 1992, finishing as a tournament runner-up three times. He made the top ninety on the Order of Merit every year from 1976 to 1990, …
- Morris Hatalsky
Morris Hatalsky (born November 10, 1951) is an American golfer. Hatalsky was born in San Diego, California. As an amateur he won the 1968 Mexico National Junior Championship. He attended U.S. International University (now Alliant International University) and Arizona State University and turned professional in 1973. He qualified for the PGA Tour at the 1976 Qualifying School and won four times on Tour between 1981 and 1990.
- Hidemichi Tanaka
Hidemichi Tanaka is a Japanese golfer who plays on the U.S. based PGA Tour. Tanaka was born in Hiroshima. He turned professional in 1991, joined the Japan Golf Tour in 1995 and played mainly on that tour until 2001. He won 10 times on tour (ranks 24th on the career victories list). He earned a PGA Tour card for 2002 at the 2001 Qualifying School, and held his card through 2006 by finishing in the top 125 on the money list each year.
- Gordon Brand, Jnr
Gordon Brand, Jnr (born in Kirkcaldy on 19 August 1958) is a Scottish professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. Brand turned professional in 1981 and quickly achieved success. He won that year's European Tour Qualifying School, and went on to win two European Tour events in his rookie season. He went on to accumulate eight wins on the tour in total, the last of them in 1993. He also won the 1988 West End South Australian Open.
- Stephen Allan
Stephen (or Steve) Allan (born 18 October 1973) is an Australian golfer. Allan was born in Melbourne. His parents emigrated from Edinburgh, Scotland three years before he was born. He turned professional in 1996 and was a member of the European Tour from 1997-2000. In 1998, his second season in Europe, he won the German Open and finished sixteenth on the Order of Merit, and that remains his most successful year. His other professional win came in his home country, …
- Grégory Havret
Grégory Havret is a French professional golfer. Havret won the French Amateur Championship three years in a row from 1997 to 1999, and in 1999 he was European Amateur Individual Championship. He also won a minor professional tournament as an amateur, the 1998 Omnium National. Havret turned professional in 1999 and won a place on the European Tour at the 2000 Qualifying School. He finished 60th on the Order of Merit in his 2001 rookie season, when he won the Italian Open.
- Katsuyoshi Tomori
is a Japanese golfer. Tomori was born in Okinawa Prefecture. He turned professional in 1983. His seven tournament wins on the Japan Golf Tour include the 1994 Mitsubishi Galant Open and the 1995 Japan Matchplay Championship. In 1996, Tomori became the first Japanese professional to enter the European Tour Qualifying School. He was successful and played in Europe for three seasons, making the top 80 on the Order of Merit each time, with a best Order of Merit placing of 47th in 1998.
- Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño
Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño is a Spanish golfer. Fernández-Castaño was born in Madrid. He turned professional in 2004 and came eighth at that year's European Tour Qualifying School. In his 2005 rookie season on the Tour, he won the KLM Open and the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award. In 2006 he won the BMW Asian Open, which was co-sanctioned by the European Tour and the Asian Tour. In 2007 he won his third European Tour tournament, the Italian Open.
- Pascal Edmond
Pascal Edmond (born 19 November 1971) is a French golfer. He turned professional in 1991. Despite many trips to the European Tour Qualifying School he has never managed to establish himself on the European Tour. Yet he does have a European Tour win to his name as he won the 2000 Aa St Omer Open, which was an official money event on both the European Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour.