It depends on how many qualify, usually between 200-300.
The top 25 players earn a pga card.
No. In 1999 the LPGA established a new policy allowing the top three money winners of the Futures Tour to automatically get their LPGA "Exempt Status" tour card. There are not many events on the Futures Tour as the Nationwide Tour (19 in 2007)
Nationwide Tour was created in 1990.
There are many tour companies nationwide. A few of the top rated tour companies nationwide are Trafalgar Tours, Insight Vacations, Go South Adventures, and Pacific Delight World Tours.
The Nationwide Tour would be the tour before the PGA Tour, the top 25 on the Nationwide tour at the end of the season win PGA Tour cards.
There are 1,000 sanctioned players on the ATP tour.
Florida Classic - Nationwide Tour event - was created in 1999.
Florida Classic - Nationwide Tour event - ended in 2001.
Tallahassee Open - Nationwide Tour event - was created in 1995.
Tallahassee Open - Nationwide Tour event - ended in 1996.
When a player earns conditional status on the PGA Tour, they are able to play in all Nationwide Tour events and PGA Tour events which have larger fields or the ones where the top players do not play in. They can usually play the fall series events.
The top 25 in earnings are given PGA memberships for the following season. Additionally, any player who wins three Nationwide tournaments in one season is promoted to the PGA tour for the remainder of the season. However, if that player is not in the top 25 in earnings at the end of the season they must go to qualifying school to earn a spot on the PGA Tour for the following season.