what to development tour players receive in trade for their low pay

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Why do kids go to school for six hours a day when they aren’t getting paid? Why do we go out and buy food instead of just making it ourselves? There has to be some benefit in the decisions we make, or we just wouldn’t make them. For example, getting a well paying job in the future, or not having to cook. The same principle applies to web.com tour players. These players are payed a fraction of what PGA Tour players make, but they still devote their lives to the cause because the web.com tour gives them the opportunity to play their way into their future. A chance to earn a spot on the PGA Tour and make the big bucks. A chance, is all it takes for these players to give up millions of dollars per win. An article from Golf Digest, a source that has been reliable in the golf world for years, will help me in my argument.

There are all sorts of different kinds of players on the Web.com tour. Some that have been there for years trying to take it to the next level, and some just out of college that are just using it to get to the next level as quick as possible. But that’s just the one thing they all have in common: the goal of reaching the PGA Tour. Just the opportunity of being able to achieve such a title is the sole reason that these hundreds of players travel across the country every week, spending thousands of dollars to play in the tournaments. Smylie Kaufman is one of them, who’s coming off his first year on the PGA Tour during the 2015-16 season. In an interview he was asked how the web.com tour helped him get to where he was, and he responded, “The main thing was trying to figure out a routine. Monday through Wednesday, managing your body. Practice rounds and travel. Things you wouldn't know as a rookie on the PGA Tour unless you have an entire year of travel under your belt. For me, that's exactly what the Web.com Tour did for me. So far on tour, I'm not doing anything different than what I did last year. I'm trying to keep the same routine, that way I can continue the success I had last year.”

For everyone it’s different. Some use it as a long term place to grow their game to evolve into a PGA Tour caliber player, and some use it as a short term guide to get a glimpse of what they know they’ll be seeing in the near future. But all of the web.com tour players used the tour as their way to the PGA Tour. Traveling around the country for prizes that weren’t all that great, because they knew the wins meant more than just the money, they meant their future as well.