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There has been alot of talk about the q-school graduates.

Is there any experts among you who can give stats, or even a general opinion on how the graduates usually perform?

For example, how many of them retained their cards last year?

Also, same question for Nationwide graduates.

Usually about 40%-45% of Nationwide graduates make it (before top 20 rule...maybe 35-40%) now. About 25%-30% make it from q-school..

2004 Nationwide class exempt (3 out of 20)....

Ryuji Imada, James Driscoll, Charles Warren

2004 Q-school (11 out of 35)....

Sean O'Hair, Jason Bohn, Lucas Glover, Greg Owen, Brian Davis, Jeff Brehaut, Dean Wilson, Doug Barron, Craig Barlow, Joey Snyder III, D.J. Trahan

I would say watch John Holmes this coming year. He is from here in Lexington and is amazing!

How many of those guys were genuine rookies? I'm pretty sure some of those guys have had a shot at the Tour before? Also Greg Owen and Brian Davis, although Q-school grads, were both reasonably successful European Tour players already, so not exactly rookies.

All the NW guys were genuine rookies, but as for the Q-School guys I think O'Hair is the only one. Owen and Davis came from the European Tour so I suppose technically they were US PGA rookies. As for the others I'm pretty sure they'd all there card before at some time, apart from Jason Bohn, not quite sure on that one

Jason Bohn played 29 PGA Tour events in 2004, earning $567k, which was 181st on the money list.

There isn't exactly a big amount of new talent shooting through is there?

I was reading about just how good this year's q-school grads were. By the sounds of it, most of them will probably just be hanging around for a year.

Nationwide: Imada and Driscoll. Warren played in 1999.

Q-school - Own and Davis were rookies, but played the European tour. O'Hair, Snyder, and Trahan were rookies.

However, I exepct a big year from Nick Watney (2005 q-school graduate) from the 2004 Nationwide class just like Lucas Glover and Jason Bohn from the 2003 class.

Amazing for sure, in the first and second stage of Q-school he was close to the top, in the final stage he had rounds of 69, 68, 67 ,66, 68, 69. To win first place and $50 thousand dollars. Perhaps it was his finest hour, or he may be just that good.

John Holmes should have a good year and retain his card. As for young returning players, Nick Watney should have a good year.

Would Ryan Moore be considered a rookie since this is his first full year on tour now that he has his card?