Should I Turn Pro? - The Financial Awakening
One thing I hear often is if you shoot around par in a regional PGA event you’ll make a little money on the side to boost your wage. After finding work and life get in the way of motivation and the fact I’ve never been naturally blessed with shooting under par regularly I started to wonder how much would you earn if you did shoot level par every round on different mini tours. That became the basis of this research into what you could earn if you shot level par, -1, or -2 in each round you played on several of the UK’s mini tours. I selected for study the first 10 ‘normal’ rounds from 5 tours, and by normal rounds I excluded pro-ams, assistants/senior events and pre-qualifiers etc. I looked for the first 10 events of 2017 that had a prize fund that represented a typical event. I would then insert ‘Golfer-X’ into the field with one of the above scores and see how he placed and estimate his earnings based on the prizes awarded. I looked into the Jamega Tour, 1836 Tour, TP
