TWO-ROUND STROKE-PLAY TO GAIN RANKINGS FOR 2015 SEASON

Germany's Pro Golf (EPD) Tour will have a 

 Qualifying School on October 13 and 14

The German PGA's Pro Golf Tour (also called the EPD Tour) will introduce a Qualifying School for the 2015 season.

The Q School will be a 36-hole stroke-play tournament, without a cut, at Golfsportclub Rheine/Mesum Gut Winterbrock in Rheine, Germany on October 13 and 14, 2014.

Professionals and amateurs who have not achieved a good classification through the 2014 season's final tour ranking list can compete for a tour category and in this way secure the right to tee off in particular at the tournaments that are regularly fully booked at the start of the season as well as tournaments with limited starting fields.

By Matthias Lettenbichler
Munich – "We have decided to take this step to introduce a serious sporting element into awarding starting places at our tournaments," says Rainer Goldrian, Managing Director of the Pro Golf Tour. "The Qualifying School guarantees maximum fairness with the awarding of starting places, it also ensures consistently high quality starting fields and last but not least gives all players much better planning security for the whole tournament season," continues Goldrian.
The Pro Golf Tour, the majority of which is run by Professional Golf AG and co-partner Langer Sport Marketing GmbH, is becoming increasingly popular. 
The starting fields are full in spring particularly and the waiting lists are sometimes long. However, to attain one of the coveted promotion places for the Challenge Tour at the end of the year it is practically essential to compete for the whole season and in all tournaments, as the level of performance is in the meantime so high and close. The Qualifying School guarantees that the strongest new players who are planning a full season on the Pro Golf Tour can really tee off at all tournaments.

The categories are being modified for the 2015 season. The Top 10 at the Qualifying School will receive a high-ranking category, a guaranteed right to tee off at all tournaments and players ranked from 11 to 50 receive an excellent classification in the system. 

Tour players and amateurs with a handicap of -3.5 or better are entitled to tee off at the Qualifying School.
Q-School: 36 holes on the demanding course of Rheine/Mesum in Germany
The golf course in Rheine is an extremely challenging, selective championship course. The club also has experience in important qualifications: the qualification tournament for Golf Team Germany was held at Gut Winterbrock for many years.