Membership Information
Recognized as the #1 fulltime 72-hole TOUR in the US in preparing for life on the PGA or Nationwide Tours.
The NGA Hooters Tour has proven year after year to be the most outstanding avenue for players to display and develop their skills in an extremely competitive atmosphere. With Naturally Fresh Foods, Hooters Restaurants, Anheuser-Bush, Bridgestone, and Pepsi sponsorship, to name a few, we provide not only a competitive place to play, but a financially rewarding opportunity. The 2008 season will be the best to date with 116% of member entry fees being paid out to the top 60 and ties ($200,000 Guaranteed purses).
The NGA Hooters Tour is the only Tour in the country, besides the PGA and Nationwide Tours, to offer a full week of activities that include 72-hole (36-hole cut) tournaments, free practice rounds, free Pepsi sponsored beverages and snacks each week, free Bridgestone range balls, paid participant pro-ams, junior clinics, long drive contests and shootouts. The Hooters Tour provides players the opportunity to experience all aspects of life as a true touring golf professional. The schedule is structured around geographical series and different varieties of championship golf courses.
For the 2008 season, the NGA Hooters Tour will again conduct Ranking Schools in order to establish players ranking order. Any player signing up for the 2008 Ranking Schools automatically becomes a member of the NGA Hooters Tour and will be given a “ranking number” based on their performance at the Ranking School.
NEW FOR 2008: Similar to the Nationwide Tour, the NGA Hooters Tour will re-shuffle conditional players two (2) times during the 2008 season based on earnings.
2008 Ranking and Re-Shuffle Policy
Category 1
Fully exempt players (established pre-season)
- Top 120 on 2007 Regular Tour money list
- Top 10-15% from 2008 Ranking Schools
- Top 10 from 2007-08 Winter Series
- Special Exemptions
Category 2
- Conditional members who accumulate $3000 in earnings
- Non-members who accumulate $4500 in earnings and have accepted Tour membership offer
Category 3
- Conditional players with pre-season ranking number
Series one (1), two (2) and three (3) fields will be filled according to the above categories until a full field of 155 (Full field of 168 minus ten (10) MQs, One (1) Club Spot, and Two (2) sponsor exemptions) is attained. Deadline for Series 1 is March 7, 2008. Deadline for Series 2 is March 28, 2008. Deadline for Series 3 is April 18, 2008.
Following Series two (2) all players in Category 3 will be re-shuffled based on tournament earnings (5 events including Guatemala). New ranking numbers will be given and will be effective for Series Four (Deadline May 23, 2008) and Series five (Deadline July 3, 2008).
Following Series Four (4) all players in Category 3 will be re-shuffled based on tournament earnings (Eleven events including Guatemala). New ranking numbers will be given and will be effective for Series Six (Deadline July 25, 2008) and series Seven (Deadline August 22, 2008).
The NGA Hooters Tour prides itself on running only professional 72-hole events with a knowledgeable staff who are PGA and USGA certified Tournament Officials. As evidenced by the success of our Alumni, The NGA Hooters Tour is a proven avenue to the PGA and Nationwide Tours. To Quote 2007 Masters Champion Zach Johnson, “The Hooters Tour prepares you for life on the Nationwide and PGA Tours. The level of competition is 2nd to none.”
Players will find the tour exciting and rewarding, so join today for the experience of a lifetime!