With the regular season of the PGA Tour wrapped up and the KFT season now in the finals, we thought it was a good time for some Monday Q stats. Below is a deep dive into the season that was in the Monday Q world. In summary:
- KFT Mondays are harder to advance through. The numbers confirm they are often played on easier courses, bringing more people into the mix, and have more players who can go low.
- The PGA Tour Monday Q courses continue to get better. Over the years the average medalist score has actually gone up a bit, mostly because of the course quality.
- Mondays are hard as shit.
Scoring Stats
Average Medalist Score:
PGA Tour- 64.72
Korn Ferry- 63.57
Average Last Qualifying Spot Score:
PGA Tour- 66.44
Korn Ferry- 65.58
Lowest Medalist Score:
PGA Tour- 62 (Corales Monday Q)
Korn Ferry- 60 (Springfield Missouri)
Highest Medalist Score:
PGA Tour- 68 (Mexico Open Q played in TX. Wind was blowing 20 mph with gusts up to 40)
KFT - 67 (Argentina Open played in Florida. The site only had two spots instead of four)
Lowest Final Qualifying Spot Score:
PGA Tour- 64 (Twice)
Korn Ferry- 64 ( Six times)
Highest Final Qualifying Spot Score:
PGA Tour- 70 (Mexico Open)
Korn Ferry- 68 (Twice)
Monday Qualifiers Performance Stats
Cuts Made Percentage:
PGA Tour- 17 of 71= 24%
Korn Ferry- 49 of 128- 38.2%
Least number of Monday Q’s to make the cut:
PGA Tour- 0 (four times)
Korn Ferry- 1 (Only had four qualifiers for the event, there are normally eight)
Most number of Monday Q’s to make the cut:
PGA Tour- 3 (Sony Open. In the years I have tracked Monday Q’s there has never been a 4/4)
Korn Ferry- 6
Best Finishes:
PGA Tour
Puerto Rico Open- Evan Harmeling T10
Valero Texas Open- Peter Kuest T10
Korn Ferry
Kansas City- Tanner Gore- Lost in a playoff
Kansas City- Dalton Ward 3rd
Argentina- Dalton Ward T3
Total of seven top-5 finishes by Monday Q’s throughout the season.
Money earned by PGA Tour Monday Q’s- $707,876
Other Stats/Random Facts
Number of Monday Q Playoffs:
PGA Tour- 17 of 18 had playoffs
Korn Ferry- 28 of 35 sites had playoffs
Ryan Hall Monday Q’d for three KFT events and one PGA Tour event. In those he shot 60, 62, 65, and 66. Good Lord.
Brandon Berry Monday Q’d for three PGA Tour events and one KFT.
In the last two seasons Danny Guise has Monday Q’d for a total of nine starts on PGA/KFT and has yet to make a cut.
PGA Tour winners who Monday Qualified for at least one event
Adam Long (3x)
Robert Streb (2x)
Martin Trainer (2x)
Patton Kizzire
Robert Garrigus
Kevin Tway
Sung Kang
In the last two seasons Danny Guise has Monday Q’d for a total of nine starts on PGA/KFT and has yet to make a cut.
