Akshay

[golfer55082]

Does anyone know how he is qualified for 2nd stage of Q school? I thought one would need to start from 1st stage without any or sufficient FedEx Cup or Korn Ferry tour points from prev season....

 

> @kevinscott22 said:

> He's going to play the second stage of Q school in Florida in early November

 

 

[iteachgolf]

> @golfer55082 said:

> Does anyone know how he is qualified for 2nd stage of Q school? I thought one would need to start from 1st stage without any or sufficient FedEx Cup or Korn Ferry tour points from prev season....

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> > @kevinscott22 said:

> > He's going to play the second stage of Q school in Florida in early November

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>

 

Top 5 in WAGR get exempt to 2nd stage

[tungstenplug]

> @golfer55082 said:

> Does anyone know how he is qualified for 2nd stage of Q school? I thought one would need to start from 1st stage without any or sufficient FedEx Cup or Korn Ferry tour points from prev season....

>

>

He is exempt into the second stage due to his top-25 ranking in the World Amateur Golf Rankings at the time of turning pro

 

[tungstenplug]

> @iteachgolf said:

> > @golfer55082 said:

> > Does anyone know how he is qualified for 2nd stage of Q school? I thought one would need to start from 1st stage without any or sufficient FedEx Cup or Korn Ferry tour points from prev season....

> >

> > > @kevinscott22 said:

> > > He's going to play the second stage of Q school in Florida in early November

> >

> >

>

> Top 5 in WAGR get exempt to 2nd stage

 

Is it top 5? I thought it was top 25 a few years back. Could be 5 now

[Pinewood Golfer]

> @golfer55082 said:

> Does anyone know how he is qualified for 2nd stage of Q school? I thought one would need to start from 1st stage without any or sufficient FedEx Cup or Korn Ferry tour points from prev season....

>

> > @kevinscott22 said:

> > He's going to play the second stage of Q school in Florida in early November

>

>

 

WAGR ranking exempted him to 2nd stage

[leezer99]

Anyone listen to his interview here on WRX? Only complaint I have is that every time I listen to him he gives one word answers and doesn't seem hyped about what he's doing. Could be a personality, cultural or age thing but he needs to get up for these opportunities to speak to people.

[Shades234]

> @leezer99 said:

> Anyone listen to his interview here on WRX? Only complaint I have is that every time I listen to him he gives one word answers and doesn't seem hyped about what he's doing. Could be a personality, cultural or age thing but he needs to get up for these opportunities to speak to people.

 

Maybe we heard a different interviews, but his Gear Drive interview from a couple days ago sounded pretty standard. Seemed comfortable. Sounded like a kid when he talked, but that's because he is one. Didn't notice any one word answers.

[BrandonDunes]

> @leezer99 said:

> Anyone listen to his interview here on WRX? Only complaint I have is that every time I listen to him he gives one word answers and doesn't seem hyped about what he's doing. Could be a personality, cultural or age thing but he needs to get up for these opportunities to speak to people.

 

He's is 17. Kids don't talk much. Hopefully he starts reading some books so he can build a vocabulary and not be the kid who didn't go to college because he "doesn't like school"

[leezer99]

Didn't make it through 2nd stage of qualifying for the KF Tour and another MC this week at Sea Island. Where does he go from here? Monday qualifiers?

[Noles]

Seems like a lonely existence for a guy that age.

[leezer99]

I don't know for sure but it seems like he has a great amount of support from family and friends which is really what he'll need (in addition to $) to make it.

[tungstenplug]

I'm guessing it will be Monday Qualifiers for PGA and Korn Ferry events. He doesn't strike me as someone who will go grind it out on the mini tours

[Shades234]

PTLA Q-School is typically in late January and Mackenzie Q-School is in late April, so he should be targeting those events while playing as many sponsor's exemptions as he can get until then.

[Noles]

If he plays there as opposed to whichever college he wanted to pick, that seems like a crazy choice.

[Shades234]

Yealimi Noh went to Korea to play last year instead of going to college. Did pretty well and now has her LPGA card for this season.

It only seems like a crazy choice if come this time next year he wasn't able to get on and play well in any major feeder tour like PTLA, Mackenzie or PGA Tour China (or their Euro equivalents).

However, if I were him, I would've gone to USC. Play for Coach Zambri at LACC & Riv (or wherever they play) and be close enough to Gankas to see him regularly.

[Noles]

I'm speaking in terms of quality of life, not where he ends up professionally. If he's as good as people say he seems to be, then he will get there at some point. No way to know which one would have been faster. I'm just picturing a 17-18 year old traveling around and grinding it out on those tours and comparing that the the life of a college freshman and sophomore. I know which one I would prefer but we all run our own race.

[tiger1873]

If he is as good as everyone says and he believes he is it will cost him a lot money to attend college vs what he could earn especially if he can obtain sponsors. It's was a gamble no matter what he did somehow I think he will end up just fine. I know everyone on here thinks college golf is great but honestly it only makes sense if your not a top ranked amateur already and need time to work on your game. He was already at place where turning professional in the first year should net him more than 4 years of college ever will.

[Noles]

It would be interesting to see a cost analysis of how much is spent while playing on the LA Tour or on mini tours. I also do not assume that if he went to college that he would stay all 4 years.

[Aaronwilson_95]

Depending on how you travel/ your status (aka how soon can you book flights /hotel rooms ) anyone from 30-45 is borderline going to breaking even on the year on pgatourLA . Before living expenses. they've played 14 events so far . 1k or so in hotel rooms for the week . You can always do airbnb but thats how comfortable you wanna feel in those countries. 3-900$ for flights . 3-500$ for caddy.

$250 entry fee for the event iirc.

at the end of year if you include q school (2k)it will likely cost you 25-35k for the season.

[leezer99]

Anyone have an update on Akshay? He seems to have vanished.

All I know is that Dog Leg News was not impressed with his decision to turn pro.

[heavy_hitter]

I thought it was a poor decision as well.

[wildcatden]

 

Is he going to be playing on any tour this year? Sponsor invites on Euro Tour? Mini-tours? Seems like he really has cornered himself and lack of tournament play at this stage can't be helpful.

[CenCalGolfer]

Curious about a few things with this kid. What do his parents do? Who's bankrolling him? How much money did he get from Callaway when he signed with them upfront? I know he's on a Sponsors Exemption in SA this week from what I heard on a PodCast.

[CenCalGolfer]

[wlm]

He played in the Amex two weeks ago, but did not make the cut.

[BloctonGolf11]

Hopefully he can serve as a lesson that jumping Pro with literally no parachute is a very poor decision. From what it sounds like he does not even really have much of a high school education to fall back on. Go to college if you can, that simple.

[tiger1873]

Looks like he may be on the European tour

https://www.europeantour.com/european-tour/saudi-international-powered-by-softbank-investment-advisers-2020/leaderboard

[Shades234]

Hadn't heard of this blog until now. Don't think I'll be going back.

[leezer99]

I hadn't either... just came up after I googled his name.

[iteachgolf]

Likely signed multi year deal worth into 7 figures.