Chris Tidland disappointed career, 13 appearances in the PGA Tour Qualifying School
Chris Tidland of the United States has made13 appearance in Professional Golf Association (PGA) Tour Q-school. This at its face value stands as a record that Tidland is the only second player after Jeff Hart to achieve the mark of having showed the highest number of appearances at the qualifying school. However it is pertinent to analyse that his record is worth significance to mention the player in record books. Of course it is not. In reality it has badly affected the player’s professional stature.
His current appearance came at the Q-School came in 2011, which allowed him to surpass Umer Uresti and Dicky Pride’s 12-time playing record. However, he is still three appearances behind the leader Jeff Hart having 16 appearances to his name. Among others who made 11 appearances in the tournament are Paul Claxton, Marco Dawson, and Kent Jones.
Throughout his 13 appearances, he has only managed to earn PGA Tour card twice in 2000 and 2006 but failed to retain the status both times. Last year, he again failed to earn the PGA Tour card for 2012 season and now he completely piles his trade on the Web.com Tour.
On the contrary, Hart in his 16th appearance in the Q-school finished fourth at TPC Scottsdale to qualify for full time PGA Tour season in 2012.
Tidland has been consistent during his career for making appearances. However, this doesn’t serve the purpose for any player to get praise of being a top-class player. Contrarily, he gets criticised for showing disappointing performances consistently and re-appearing again in the Q-school every year.
He must focus on bringing some consistency in his game too as he did in making appearances. Couple of commendable victories on the golf course can leave a great impact on his portfolio instead of aiming the record of Jeff Hart.
If we look his overall professional career, he has been average player since he turned pro in 1995. He only has two victories registered to his name, that came on the Web.com Tour - he won the Albertsons Boise Open and the Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open in 2008 and 2009, respectively.
He qualified for full-time PGA Tour twice in his career, first time in 2001 and then in 2007. He best PGA Tour finish came at the 2007 AT&T Classic when he recorded an 11-under par 277 to share the sixth spot on the leaderboard.
Tidland’s stats confirm him being a low-rated player. Even though he qualified for 2011 British Open, he didn’t manage to impress the golf fans with his game. Keeping in view his career and playing technique, one can say that he needs quite huge amount of improvement if he wants to make a winning mark on the PGA Tour.
After reaching a record that doesn’t have any professional worth and recognition, he must think making improvement in his game instead of aiming Jeff Hart’s record. If he gets himself out of the Q-school by qualifying for 2013 season, it can definitely leave positive impact on his reputation and overall career stats.
After all, wins are the facts that are always counted, not the appearances with low-rated performances. Most performances in Q-school can never be a receipt of success of any player. The least one plays the Q-school, the more he is regarded as talented player.
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