These 5 players just earned a PGA Tour card at Q School!

How does PGA Tour Q School work? Who took part? And who’s Tour bound? Here’s what you need to know…

PGA Tour Q School is coming to a close for another year.

Presented by Korn Ferry, the headline sponsor of the second-tier tour, players compete over a number of stages in a bid to win one of five PGA Tour cards.

How does PGA Tour Q School work?

PGA Tour Q School consists of four stages: pre-qualifying, and then the first, second and final stages.

Some players begin in pre-qualifying, which consists of eight events, while some are exempt into one of the three main stages.

First stage takes place across 14 venues, while the second stage is whittled down to five.

The final stage sees the last 174 men standing play 72 holes over the Dye’s Valley course at TPC Sawgrass, and Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

Big names who crashed out at the second stage

Multiple PGA Tour champions Nick Watney, Sean O’Hair, Scott Piercy, Chez Reavie, Andrew Landry, Kyle Stanley and Sangmoon Bae all failed to make it to the final, and it wasn’t quite the week Jeff Overton was hoping for.

Despite not yet winning on the PGA Tour, Overton has made a handsome career from golf and banked more than $12 million in 20 years as a professional. But the Hoosier, best known for his ‘Boom, baby!’ antics at the 2010 Ryder Cup, was 3-over through three rounds before removing himself from the tournament.

Overton, who played his way onto Corey Pavin’s team thanks to a solid run of form that included three runner-up finishes, put two points out of a possible four on the board at Celtic Manor. His career since has, unfortunately, been marred by a serious infection that forced him out of the game for almost five years.

Meanwhile, the only major champion at Q School was Jimmy Walker, who was trying to regain his playing rights for next year.

Walker has won six PGA Tour titles to date, including a major at the PGA Championship in 2016. He has also played on two Ryder Cup teams, winning one, and was part of a victorious Presidents Cup squad.

Walker, who has a lifetime exemption to the year’s third major thanks to lifting the Wanamaker Trophy, has not held a PGA Tour card since 2023 and has had to rely on sponsor invites for the past couple seasons. But rounds of 71-72-71 ultimately saw the 46-year-old fall three shots shy of making it into the final.

7 big names who failed to earn a card at the Q School final

Four players who lost their PGA Tour cards in 2025 were competing in the the Q School final in a bid to earn them back.

Spare a thought for Camilo Villegas. The popular Columbian won his fifth PGA Tour title at the Bermuda Championship in 2023 to end a nine-year drought, but his exemption ran out he returned to Q School having finished 155th in the FedEx Cup – but a run of four birdies in his last five holes wasn’t enough and he finished one shot outside the top-five.

Japan Tour legend and former wunderkind Ryo Ishikawa made a good run at it, but he ultimately fell six shots short in T34.

Adam Hadwin only has one PGA Tour title to his name – we had to triple check that one! – and that was way back in 2017. The two-time Presidents Cup player finished 139th in the FedEx Cup standings and could only manage a T62 at Q School.

Remember when Cameron Champ was the next big thing? The Californian bomber won three times in his first four seasons on the PGA Tour. He’s now winless in over four years now finds himself without a card after finishing 147th. He finished in a tie for 92nd this week.

Harry Higgs needed a good week in Florida to get back on the PGA Tour and avoid being best known as the guy who took his shirt off while playing the 16th at Scottsdale. He finished in a tie for 111th.

Meanwhile it was a mixed week for the veterans, Russell Knox and Ted Potter Jr, who have four PGA Tour wins between them – including a WGC and Pebble Beach Pro-Am title respectively. Knox finished in a tie for 29th and Potter 161st, but ultimately it all ended up with the same result.

And the five players who are Tour bound are…

Canadian AJ Stewart topped the leaderboard thanks to a 14-under-par 266 – which included a hole-in-one during Friday’s second round.

His compatriot, Adam Svennson, Argentina’s Alejandro Tosti, and Colombian Marcelo Rozo finished two shots back in a tie for second.

Another Canadian, Ben Silverman, and American Dylan Wu finished tied-fifth and went to a playoff for the final card, with the latter coming out on top.