TarHeel Tour now EGolf Tour

Maybe the word 'easier' was misused. If not harder, can we agree it is different?  Can we agree players who ride and use distance finders have an advantage over those who walk 4 rounds and use yardage markers? If we can't then I have to wonder if you've ever played tournament golf outside  the THT.

My point is that using these advantages during the regular season does not help a player during the post (Q-School) season. Add in the fact that except for final stage which as you know is 6 rounds, pre-qualifying and stages 1 & 2 are 4 round events...not 54 hole events. Thus, players who predominantly play on these types of tours, i.e. EGolf & Gateway, flame out at Q-School before final stage.

Peter, is there any chance that you are one of these 'flame-outs'?

Larry the Loud Mouth, you're nickname is quite apt.

Your main theme seems to be to bring to the forefront the fact that you believe the Tarheel (E-golf) Tour to be a place to make a few dollars and nothing more.

Sir, the fact that certain notable names (that have access to "better" tours) still make time to play on the Tarheel Tour shows that in some way the tour is providing a tournament that somewhat accomplished players desire to participate.

The fact that those somewhat accomplished players are competing on the tour strengthens the field and creates a more difficult task for the inexperienced tour player.

In my examples to you as per the PGA players with prior Tarheel Tour starts, you seemed to discount their playing the Tarheel events as nothing more than the fact that they couldn't get into any better event at the time. Sir, please take the time to read up on some of the current players devoting time to both the Tarheel and Nationwide Tours. I'll not waste my time anymore with you, but feel free to open yourself to information that you might not have realized was available.

If in fact your only reasoning for getting this discussion going was to say that the Tarheel Tour is not a good place to hone your game to prepare for Q-school, then you have wasted your time in a most ludicrous manner.

Please realize too my friend that the history of the professional golfer has shown one thing in particular, he will go where the money is, not what is considered the best place to prepare. That's what being a professional is all about; making money from the golf one plays, otherwise one would remain an amateur. If Mexico created a new tour with 15 million dollar weekly purses, the next few PGA Tour fields would be a bit light.

Get over it and play on whatever tour you desire. It seems that many others believe the E-Tour to be the place to play at present.

Lazebone...Reasonable people can disagree...I could argue each and every one of the points you attempted to make above, but it's obvious we have different views on the subject. I would be beating a dead horse.

The points I attempted to make? Just because you chose not to acknowledge them, the points have been no less made.

You should know though that the players you listed, were hardly full time Tarheel Tour players before they moved on to bigger, better events...but that's neither here nor there.

I was actually trying to name a few people that you may have heard of. I never said that they were full time Tarheel Tour players. The fact is, sir, that very few professional golfers without a full time PGA or Nationwide Tour card limit themselves to a single tour.

More importantly, I'm still curious what about the financial info you mentioned in a previous post?

At one point the Tarheel Tour released a financials report last year. I'm unable to find it on google, but should I, I'll be glad to post it. Other than that, it's not like I have any secret information. I know that the cost of tournament use of each course, through current neogtiations are very acceptable. Volunteers help out with quite a bit of the work. With the help of sponsorships, the overhead of each event is easily met. The tour isn't making billions and doesn't expect to. It's a third tier tour, just trying to provide a legitimate niche in sports.

For the life of me, I can't understand your ... distaste towards this particular tour.

Here is a recent article about a few guys splitting time bewtween the Tarheel Tour and what Nationwide starts they can get, and a few have done well.

http://www.egolfprofessionaltour.com/weekend-update-derek-lamely-claims-first-nationwide-tour-title

I would like to point out that the event on the eGolf Tour that Larry is professing to have played was a walking only event. I know since I played in it for real. I'm guessing this guy works for the Hooters Tour and is upset that his tour is no longer the third tour in the US.

It's funny that this supposed player is worried about financials. All he needs to worry about is getting the ball in the hole. The eGolf Tarheel Tour has been around for almost ten years and has paid out every single purse every single time. Its funny that Larry professes to know how to get to the two big tours when he is still playing minitours after playing professionally with Steve Marino in 2002.

And.....What he doesn't mention is that the Hooters Tour has canceled a $500,000 purse event this season and replaced it with.....nothing. Not too great considering every other purse on their tour is only $200,000. Gee I wonder why they canceled the purse for the half mil and not any of the 17 for $200,000? Probably had something to do with getting 125 players one week on their midwest swing instead of the  normal 168.

As for preparing players for the next level......Playing the worst course in every state that you visit doesn't exactly prepare you for the next level, but playing at courses like Forest Oaks (former PGA Tour stop), Pine Needles (has hosted several USGA championships) and Savannah Harbor (current host of a Champions Tour event) does. Thats why players like Tom Gillis, Blake Adams, Scott Brown, Matt Hendrix, Steve MArino, Matt Bettencourt etc play the egolf Tour. That and the money, which is light years better than any other tour.

Oh Larrylou,,,, they are calling you out!!!!!