WHAT Mini Tour Golf COSTS: PART 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2017
- Ever wondered what it cost to play mini tour or professional golf? Well come along with me for an event on the Great Lakes Tour as I give a detailed breakdown of what it all costs week to week, event to event. Part 2, a full breakdown of the annual costs of professional golf can be found right here 👉🏼
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I've always felt like these guys experience more pressure than the PGA guys. Sure there's a ton of pressure when tournaments and majors are at stake, but those dudes are obviously rich. Real pressure is needing to sink a 6 footer to pay the bills.
@@jakob4371 Alex Green: Lee Trevino said it best: Pressure is having to sink a seven-foot putt for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.
Playing well at any level induces pressure, and I always wonder if being a tour professional with a healthy bank account creates more pressure or less for them?! I often think if I had millions of dollars in my bank account that I'd be less inclined to worry about winning all the time, versus struggling to win my local qualifier to get into a tour event, or even an event at my local municipal for bragging rights and pride. Be sure to check out my golf blog at digitoutofthedirt1953.blogspot.com.
Amen.
so true
You just need to make cuts on the PGA tour which isn't ridiculously hard getting there is though when you need to win regularly
To put it into perspective for a "weekend warrior" like myself....to play Tarandowah 3 days + gas + food, would be around $250 (Tarandowah is one of the cheaper quality tracks around)....and no chance to win anything back. Golf is expensive, but I LOVE it!
Great insight, thanks for sharing. Best of luck!
Thanks for the info! Keep up the good work 👍
Great job!! Rooting for you!
Really great insight into the life on tour.
Total respect for what your doing. Keep it going and best of luck with it all.
+Stephen Martin thanks so much Stephen 👍🏼
I stumbled across your page just today, loving the fact you are from Toronto, where I live. I know this is an old video but hope you are doing well out there wherever you are!! Totally subscribed!!
made a triple on 18 yesterday and finished with an even 72. cost me 1st place. your summary at end of this vid is inspiring to PRESS ON during a tough round/tournament. thanks great vid!
Good Luck AJ!!
Fun video to watch! Definitely subscribed and will watch more
+Blake Stansfield awesome to hear! Welcome to the crew 👊🏽
Love the channel.
Great video eye opening
Keep grinding bro! Cheers
Thanks Conner
Hardly ever comment on YoutTube videos but had to say how great this was! You now have a new supporter in the UK. Wishing you all the best. Ben.
+Ben Caldwell thanks so much Ben! I’m glad you dig the videos and you’re now a supporter. Cheers mate 👊🏽
Just played with guy who won couple mini tour tournaments he may go back but injury also played guy who played regular tour!! Making it make sense money wise is so tough. I feel the one maybe the other of guys I played with could win regular tour but it's a nonstarter if you arnt funded!!
New subscriber, great content and insight into pro golf
+David Williams thanks David, glad to have you joining along 👊🏽
Great video, very insightful. Good luck to you on your journey.
Thank you 👊🏼
Love this guy!
Good insight and very interesting.
Thanks Karl
Nice! I live in London during the summer months and probably will once I graduate
+BlaKKoutGT nice man! 👊🏽
Awesome video! I caddied for my friends that got status on the sunshine tour over the summer in various events, I understand what it takes to maintain status, healthy shape, and make money! Best of luck my man!
Thanks Bennett! It's a grind but absolutely worth all the blood, sweat and tears
i thought it said “mini golf tour” at first hahaha! keep up the grind brother
Really happy I stumbled onto your channel. Nice to see a good Canadian player grinding it out, documenting his progress. I'm in Burlington myself so it's cool to see you play tournaments and courses near my place!
Welcome along for the ride man!
Andrew Jensen I'm only an 8 handicap but if ever you're in Burlington Oakville and need a playing partner let me know!
You got it!
Great vid
Very cool video brother! I'm down in AZ gearing up for the Dream chasers and Pepsi tour...on my own dime. I feel the pain, lol. Your attitude is awesome though...thanks for sharing!!!
+Dedicated2Journey thanks man! Best of luck out west chasing the dream 👊🏽
Just found you today , I love your videos already subscribed
Thanks Ricardo! Glad to have you along for the journey
Yo I love this vid it a good inside hope you win your tornements
Loved the video, great editing
+AllDem Gamers thanks!!
AllDem Gamers i
'Wishing you the very best of fortune out there. We're truly living when we are chasing our dreams, without we're dying.
+Woden of the Angles thank you!!
Great attitude. Best of luck!
+Mike G. Thanks so much Mike!
There is a city in Canada called England so therefore ENGLAND IS MY CITY
Good video. Thanks
Thanks Sam 👊🏼
Great info. I played the Golf Channel AM Tour for a season and was surprise by the costs with those tournaments. They were charging us $100 to play a $50 course and the prize money didn't even cover the costs of the tourney's. And if you're in a small category (Over 50 with 3 handicap) you got placed against the scratch players. Tough gig!
+TJ Shine haha very tough gig!
Wanting to see you succeed! Subscribing for you bud!
Thanks David!
Andrew, I’ve been seriously considering something like the mini tour. I have such belief and passion in a career in golf and realize the grind. Thanks for the vid. We should play a round sometime!
Love hearing this Weston! Good luck on the pursuit👊🏼
Even tougher with a full time job. You didn't even touch on practice rounds (which aren't included or free) and good luck playing well going in blind. You still need a home course to hang your hat. Membership costs plus a range membership are other cost factors that aren't weekly but could easily be broken down weekly. Balls, gloves, shoes ... even hats wear and get crappy looking when you play and practice enough to get decent. Tournament golf is not for the faint of heart.
That doesn't even include a practice round green fee on the tournament course. It's awfully tough to be competitive on any golf course playing it sight-unseen / played it once last year etc. Also, tournaments are held during weekdays which, for most people, are work days. So now you're booking vacation days to play golf tournaments. It's a huge undertaking, IMHO. Best of luck Andrew.
How many tours is this away from the PGA?
I'm living my pro golfer touring life thru YT. $10/month, ad-free.
Wow very entertaining, well editing video. New sub :)
+Daniel Cao thanks Daniel!
Yes very well editing
Keep grinding, follow your heart!
+Viking Alle Wåhlin Thanks!
Viking Alle Wåhlin I do the same thing lol
I did mini tours back in 2002 to 2007. It does cost a lot but it's fun and stressful at the same time. I made over 80,000 each year problem is I spent nearly that much in fees, travel, balls, gloves, food, lodging and gas. I also worked pretty much full time during. It's tough. Best of luck to you and enjoy the journey.
+Ben Clabaugh thanks Ben!
Could I ask what your job was?
American Mini Tour Golf
Cmon man take a chill pill. No need to go rain on people parade! Also if you’re gonna be a keyboard warrior you should probably brush up on your grammar 😉
Nice job man
+Conrad Harle thanks Conrad 👍🏼
Did you withdraw from the Riv Open??
I have a hard time when someone calls golfing “work”. More power to ya for being able to play golf and I wish you success but I’ve never once felt like golfing was hard work haha.
Kourtney lol ever shank your way out of $500+ at regular work?
Nice video, got me to subscribe
+Pittgolfer13 thank you! Welcome to the party 🤙🏼
Tarandowah golfers club is my club and work for the last 3 years
Man this is why I stopped tournament golf after HS. I knew The cost and I knew my family didn’t have the money to help me out no did I wanna spend that amount and not win anything back. Good luck tho man. Keep it up I at least wish I had Sponsors haha
Streetspeed717 music hell yeah
Sounds like tough life. Only few on web.com tour make money. Most on PGA tour make money. I think if you can't constantly shoot -4 for 7,400 yards, there is really no need to waste money to play that many tournaments. On your home course if you shoot -4 on 7,400 yards means you probably can shoot on par on tournaments.
New sub!
+4ndy123 welcome!!
7:29 As if playing the mini-tours was not hard enough, now you have to deal with me telling you that it's not 'hone in on', it's 'home in on'. Good luck out there. Hone your skills and home in on the cash. Cheers, D.
To be on tour full time it's $100,000 per year. Sponsors needed!
+David Curtis yes sir!!
Andrew Jensen - keep grinding Andrew! I had sponsors $100,000 per year. Good luck bro! Keep swinging! Focus on short game bro! All the best, DC
+David Curtis Thanks David... any chance those sponsors like Canadians?? Haha
+David Curtis Thanks David... any chance those sponsors like Canadians?? Haha
Andrew Jensen - it's hard finding sponsors eventually I got them, then the real work starts! for you being in Canada I'm not sure how the land lies out there as I was in both U.K. And USA playing events in each side of pond. NGA Tour is good but expensive - entrance like $1,700 per event I think now is $2,000. Web.com Monday Qualifiers were great! Only around $250 entrance fee and if you qualify great! If not move onto next. If I was doing it again full time I'd focus on Web.com Monday Q's. As for sponsors - get some personal relationships with CEO's that's what I did. Check out my GOLF VIDEO on my 'Drum' Channel ;) AVG drive was 330 yards right down middle. Dude FOCUS on your short game!! If my short game was better I would've been winning everything as all other areas were SOLID! Keep in touch and I'll keep my eye on your YT Channel. All the best! Remember there's guys all around shooting 20-25 under! It's crazy how good it is out there. Dream but dream wi h a wise head! Now get on that short game area! 👍 DC
Really enjoyed the video - curious how many hours you put in per week practicing/gym etc? Thanks
+steven clements thanks Steven! I’m actually filming a Q&A episode today, so this question is perfect. Stay tuned for the answer on Saturday 👊🏽
In my opinion, Golf is the hardest sport to learn, and the hardest one to go pro in. There’s no draft, and there’s no guaranteed sponsorships. There’s even no longer a Q School. You have to work your way in, one tournament at at time. It’s brutal.
make more videos about mini tour life
+Quinn Joseph on it!
Nice vid. What about mortgage payments... Car ins payment... Health ins. Pro golf life is unforeseen with the struggles of $$$ i played college golf and had the opportunity to have certain people with money invest in me... Its tough. Keep grindn brotha. Play smart, keep it in the short grass
+Kyle Scott thanks Kyle. I’m lucky that I don’t have the huge payments hanging over my head, just rent and debt repayment. I cover it in part 2 of this ‘series’. Luckily, my other ‘side gig’ helps with those costs
Don’t think you should add food as a tournament expense... since you need to purchase / eat food regardless
Sorry, got to disagree with you. When making any budget, for any vocation, food is always a line item. It’s also a write off come tax season, therefore it’s a necessary expense to account for in this career.
Andrew Jensen Thanks for the reply. Understand your point of view come tax season...just pointing out from a practical standpoint that 99% of people don’t get their meals covered by an employer regardless of career, so I don’t view it as a tournament specific expense. It’s a “living and breathing” expense. Keep up the great videos!
Where would one start. Where would one sign up for a school?
Google, or check out some of the other videos I've made about turning pro
I live in the New Haven Connecticut area. I can house and feed you if you play in Connecticut or some parts of New York.
+Dawson McNew thanks for the offer Dawson, I’ll keep that in mind if ever I’m out that way 👊🏼
How do you get onto these mini tours and find sponsorship
+conor clarke getting on them is easy, you just have to pay the entry fees. Getting sponsorship is much harder. It's a combination of luck, hard work, good golf, and knowing/meeting the right people that believe in you and are willing to financially aid you.
how do you get to play events on this tour? Is it just first come first serve? do you have to go to mini Q school? is it called the mini tour? I'm so confused, there seems to be a 100 different ways to go to try to be a pro golfer. there is the makenzie tour, the great lakes tour, the CCPT tour the mandarin tour. how many godamn tours are there?
There’s tours all over North America, and they are all just pay to play. No qualifier needed at the development level
Thanks so much for the reply. So is the web.com tour the same or? and the mini tour, does it have a minimum handicap to enter tournaments ? thanks again, love the vids, super helpful!
Totalling up food isn't a real golf expense. You would eat whatever you were doing or wherever you were.
It absolutely is for us on the lower level tours. Don't forget, we don't have the luxury of a steady income week to week, allowing us to budget food like someone with a 9 to 5. We have to eat according to our budget and living arrangements every week. Hotel means eating out more, staying with friends or in an AirBnb means a kitchen and the opportunity of cooking. My food expenses are much different when at home with my full kitchen vs being on the road and having to eat out most of the meals. I understand what your saying, but we still have to throw food in the budget when planning out our years expenses, especially when it comes to seeking out sponsorships or private financial backing to offset those expenses. The purpose of this vlog was to showcase any and all expenses that go into a week on "tour". No stone left unturned.
Have you played golf in Ireland?!
you don't eat when your not playing golf then ?
There's ALOT more than enough money at the top. Can't the PGA Tour like sponsor bigger purses for the mini tours?
just remember, if you get to the big show you can win $10 million at the end. Just like Justin Thomas.
+clubredken hell yes!
Thanks Andrew! Good luck on your next one.
And if you ever meet Brooke Henderson could you say hi for me?
And... maybe ask her to follow me on twitter. She did so great this weekend in hurricane conditions. I love her @clubredkid66
looks like casey
+Dylan Williams yup! His style was a major influence when I started this channel. I’m probably not the only one who owes him so much credit for starting something
$620 is a little expensive dont you think
That’s mini tour golf man... you want to play an event that’s at least 36 holes, you gotta pay for it.
It still sounds cheaper than going to college. If you think you can make it on one of the money making tours, then grind on.
+Striker 333 hell ya!
What are you driving that you go through two or even one tank in 75 mins? Lmao
+Jordan Palazzetti 3 days of 120km each way...
It’s not a job if you don’t make money. You don’t have it, avg swing at best
It's sad when your "major talent" isn't deep enough to feed you. Maybe it's time to ask yourself the question, "Do I really want to be another Duffy Waldorff?" Then again, if the choice is between mini-tour golf & being an Lyft driver... Fate is a bit@h.
Your attitude is sad
Golf is cheap as fuck. Try racing motocross. easily blow 5k a weekend traveling to races bike maintenance, fees , motorhome fuel, food etc... fml. And thats roughing it
Jesus christ, the jump cuts...
Bullshit.. where are the windmills and loopty-loops?
it's sounds easier than it is but I think you need to forget about the money and forget trying to make money.
I totally agree with you. It took some years, but the money isn't the focus when I play. I simply made it the focus for this vlog, to shine a light on the side of the pursuit many people aren't aware of
I don't know why peeps do this unles you are rich or sponsored. Chasing a golf career is just a wet dream..
Lol you dont know why people pursue what they want? Sucks to suck
Is this a Casey Neistat video? Be original bro
Great insight, thanks for sharing. Best of luck!