Nationwide Tour graduates top-25 to PGA Tour

The Nationwide Tour has given the top-25 players their PGA Tour card for the 2012 season.

The top-25 were based on how the players finished at the end of the years’ money list.

Among the 25 players receiving their PGA Tour card, 13 are 30-years-old or younger.

The youngest graduate is 21-year-old Danny Lee. Lee led the Nationwide Tour with the lowest scoring average, 68.82 shots per round.

Lee finished 6th on the Nationwide Tour’s money list.

Leading the Nationwide Tour’s money list was 30-year-old J.J. Killeen.

Killeen won back-to-back tournaments, the Utah Championship and the Cox Classic. Killen also had 11 top-25 finishes this year and only missed the cut at four events.

Some of the graduates from last years class includes Jhonattan Vegas, Hunter Haas, Tommy Gainey, Brendan Steele and  two-time PGA Tour winner Keegan Bradley.

The Nationwide Tour helps develop professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at Qualifying School (or referred to as Q-School) or have not made enough money on the PGA Tour to retain their membership.

To learn more about Lee or Killeen and to see the full list of Nationwide Tour graduates, click here.