2000 Buy.com Tour graduates

This is a list of players who graduated from the Buy.com Tour in 2000. The top 15 players on the Buy.com Tour's money list in 2000 earned their PGA Tour card for 2001.

2000 Buy.com Tour 2001 PGA Tour
Player Money list
rank
Earnings ($) Starts Cuts
made
Best
finish
Money list
rank
Earnings ($)
Spike McRoy 1 300,638 31 16 T3 127 401,654
Mark Hensby* 2 291,757 29 7 T9 186 155,629
Tim Clark* 3 288,056 3 1 T26 227 21,750
Briny Baird 4 271,897 31 22 2 63 812,001
Ian Leggatt* 5 259,724 29 12 T5 133 368,862
Chris Smith 6 236,541 30 20 T3 58 932,810
Kent Jones 7 220,081 28 7 T15 201 87,308
Tripp Isenhour* 8 219,630 31 16 T7 146 299,452
Paul Gow* 9 209,449 27 12 2 83 608,382
John Riegger 10 200,904 27 17 14 140 342,221
David Berganio Jr. 11 175,947 25 16 T3 76 685,082
Jeff Gallagher 12 193,811 7 4 T48 228 20,984
J. J. Henry* 13 192,287 28 15 2/T2 (twice) 49 1,073,847
Kelly Grunewald* 14 192,225 27 6 T34 210 59,244
Jeff Hart 15 178,489 28 16 T11 164 219,386

*PGA Tour rookie for 2001.
T = Tied
Green background indicates the player retained his PGA Tour card for 2002 (finished inside the top 125).
Yellow background indicates player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2002, but retained conditional status (finished between 126–150).
Red background indicates the player did not retain his PGA Tour card for 2002 (finished outside the top 150).

Runners-up on the PGA Tour in 2001

No. Date Player Tournament Winner Winning score Runner-up score
1 May 27 J. J. Henry Kemper Insurance Open Frank Lickliter −16 (69-65-66-68=268) −15 (65-71-67-66=269)
2 Jul 22 Paul Gow
lost in two-man playoff
B.C. Open Jeff Sluman −22 (67-68-65-66=266) −22 (69-65-66-66=266)
3 Jul 29 Briny Baird John Deere Classic David Gossett −19 (67-64-68-66=265) −18 (69-65-66-66=266)
4 Sep 30 J. J. Henry Texas Open at LaCantera Justin Leonard −18 (65-64-68-69=266) −16 (70-64-68-66=268)

See also

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