Since its inception in 2002 as the Tarheel Tour, the eGolf Professional Tour has established itself as the premier developmental tour in North America. In 2009 alone, the tour paid out over $4.4 million in prize money in just 18 events, was granted exemptions into four Nationwide Tour events, and conducted tournaments at elite venues such as the Pine Needles Resort, Forest Oaks Country Club and the Westin Savannah Harbor Resort. The eGolf Tour provides the top proving grounds for players from all over the world, and by design, seeks out the best courses of any developmental golf tour.

Since 2002, the eGolf Tour has been a platform from which countless players have ascended to the PGA and Nationwide Tours. In 2009 alone, eGolf Tour members Blake Adams and Tom Gillis played the tour, earned their way onto the Nationwide Tour, and finished in the top five on the money list having already solidified their 2010 PGA TOUR cards. A total of six former eGolf Tour players earned their TOUR cards via their top 25 finish on the season-ending Nationwide Tour money list: Adams, Gillis, Derek Lamely, Matt Every, Garth Mulroy, and Jerod Turner. A few former eGolf Tour players currently starring on the PGA TOUR include Will MacKenzie, Steve Marino, Jason Bohn, Matt Bettencourt, David Mathis, Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey, John Mallinger and many more.

The tour’s reputation for developing players for the PGA and Nationwide Tours has helped it become the logical choice for top amateur and college players once they turn professional. The eGolf Tour has become the go-to tour for past NCAA Champions such as Jamie Lovemark (USC), Kevin Chappell (UCLA) and Jonathan Moore (Oklahoma State), as well as a training ground for Walker Cup stars like Moore, Cameron Tringale, Billy Horschel, Kyle Reifers, Billy Hurley, Matt Every, Lee Williams, Matt Hendrix and Nick Cassini.

The tour is run by three former players with a combined 20 years of playing developmental tours and a Class A PGA of America member.

The 2010 eGolf Tour season will begin in the South Carolina Lowcountry in mid-February. Some of the highlights of the 2010 season include:

• 72-hole tournaments with a full-field purse of $235,000.
• Eighteen (18) tournaments from February through October. Tour Championship to be contested in early August with four Fall Series events leading up to Q-School.
• eGolf paying for 2010 PGA TOUR Q-School for the top 20 members on the tour 2010 money list.
• Tour Championship featuring a minimum of $100,000 in added purse money with a field limited to the top 50 members on the money list.
• Tour will again offer a minimum of four Nationwide Tour exemptions in 2010.