I'm your hucklekentjones

Looks like he racked up $215,671 playing 16 events and making 8 cuts. He played about half as much this year and lowered his scoring avg. to under 71.

Kent is only getting started in 2008. This is his time of year. He is currently 2 under playing the back 9 of his second round this weekend. Tied for 12th. Here's to you Mr. Jones! Bring home a nice paycheck Sunday!

Man I thought about this thread the other day! Glad to see it brought back!

back in 2005 I thought he was a bad@ss... now I'm just jealous of his monies.

36th for 27k. He's gonna need to average over $100,000 in each of the last 5 tournaments to make the top 125 and avoid another trip to Q school. Seems like an impossible task.

Cut with a +5 total Friday. I wonder if his wrist is gonna be able to get him through the inevitable trip to Q school this year. Could this be the end of the line?

C'mon Kent!

nowhere man started playing as i read the latests posts.

Kent cashed for $32k at -2 in 27th after going 65-77-74-70. His Friday blow up hurt. Bad. He would've been looking at a $300k+ tournament with a good shot at the win if he could've kept it around 72 in the 2nd round.

He's currently in 176th and has one more event to avoid Q-school. He needs to get at least 2nd this weekend in the final tournament although I'm not sure even 2nd place money would do it.

The good part is that last week's 65 shows that there's hope for a miracle.

Well after an opening round 73 Kent will need 3 finishing rounds of less than 66 to have a chance at the win. I don't see the miracle happening boys. Off to Q-School one more time.

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• I wanted to know what it’s like to be a top-125 Bubble Boy, so I went to one of the Tour’s foremost experts the other day: Kent Jones.

Jones, 41, has pretty much lived on the card line late in each of the last six seasons. He finished from 101st to 134th each of the last six years, four times saving his card at Nos. 101, 122, 119 and 123 and twice coming up short at 131 and 134.

“It’s happened so much that people at home have called me Mr. October because generally I play my best in the fall,” Jones said. “They ask me, ‘Why don’t you start the year playing like that?’ I’ve caught plenty of that.”

Uncharacteristically, Jones entered the final week at 176th this year. As a result, he said he was feeling much less pressure than those near the lines of 125 and 150.

The man who knows all about nerves and pressure said his most tension-filled experience came one year when he was just inside the 125 but couldn’t get into the last two events of the year.

“I was home watching it,” he said. “Now that was nerve-wracking, much moreso than playing. There was nothing I could do.”

For those who are playing and trying to keep their cards, Jones offers this advice:

“For me it was staying relaxed and playing my normal game and not getting ahead of myself. I’m pretty good at staying focused and not letting all that other stuff bother you. You’ve got to be patient and hang in there every day and keep giving yourself chances.”

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http://www.golfweek.com/protours/pga/story/hate-to-be-rude-feature-110708

Kent advances to the final stage of Q-School... barely.

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Twenty-two players who shot 288 or better advanced to the finals Dec. 3-8 at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif. The low 25 and ties at La Quinta earn PGA Tour cards for 2009, and the next number of players closest to 50 will be exempt on the Nationwide Tour. The remainder of the field will have conditional status on the developmental tour.

...Others to advance included PGA Tour players Paul Stankowski (286), Michael Sims (287) and Kent Jones (288).

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Kent fired a 67 in round one (good for 10th) and today is 2 under through 9 holes tied for 7th out of 163 participants. Q-school finishes up on Monday.

The Top 25 players and ties will have full status on the Tour next season. The next 50 and ties thereafter get full Nationwide Tour status.

I click on this thread every time it comes up. I have no idea why. I guess it is a tradition now.

Kent starts off today's final round tied for 21st. There are 4 players tied at 25th ONE stroke behind.

http://www.pgatour.com/qschool/leaderboard/

He's on the number thru 13. Four guys are tied in 29th one stroke back. Nailbiting time for everyone except the man who is there almost every year in some form or another.

I'd hate to be this guy...he's right on the bubble after being T6 going into today and can't seem to get anything going...

Brian Stuard

So, top 25 make the Tour?

ahhhhhh, go kent!!!!

Looks like the number is -19, Kent is in. Brian Stuard is outside looking in at this point, on -18 with 4 holes to go.

Yep the number is -19 as 11 guys are tied in 16th. The number could drop to -18 but I doubt it.

Yes, top 25 and ties get full exemption on the tour in 2009.

BTW - Kent birdied 17 to make it in on the number.

Brian Stuard is choking, unfortunately. Bogey'd 16 to go to -17 with 2 holes left...

Oh man.

http://www.pgatour.com/players/02/38/00/scorecards/2008/r088.html

Molder started the day tied for 9th and bogied 18 to finish one out. Wow.

one of the best threads in the history of texags.

BTW, feinstein wrote a great book about the terror that is Q school.

http://www.amazon.com/Tales-School-Inside-Golfs-Fifth/dp/0316014303



[This message has been edited by Humbert Humbert II (edited 12/8/2008 8:31p).]

And none of these guys will ever come close to winning at Hilton Head, Pebble, Colonial (well, maybe), or any major.

If you get out of Q skool, all you're looking for is a paycheck.

http://www.pgatour.com/players/r/?/01/07/33/results

Look who has cashed in 4 of his first 5 events.

way to be.

currently 132nd. don't 125 get full time status on the tour?

i forgot about this thread.

$140k through the first 3 months of '09. solid showing so far.

9th at the Puerto Rico Open. I was watching some of this on the golf channel this weekend. Why is it that the PGA has 2 events the same weekend (Puerto Rico & Doral)?

No idea but I'm pretty sure that Kent Jones owes his career to that fact.

He specializes in the 2nd tier events.

I love this thread.

Honestly, the guy have made $4.5 million over his career. Not too bad for being a 2nd tier player. I'd love to do that.

Go KENT!