Closest to what, or where? Closest to Perth, Australia? Closest to Vatican City? Closest to Farmer Brown's south forty? Please rethink and ask again.... ;-)
Q School is usually referring to a Qualifying School. So a PGA Q school product can most likely be used for a Qualifying School activity. PGA usually is referring to golf.
Only 50 spots are available in Q-School.
Q School is the qualifying school for the PGA and LPGA professional golf tours. Information is available on Wikipedia and the website WelUnderpar as well as in the periodical Golf Digest and directly through the PGA organization.
The top 25 players and ties from the final qualifying stage.
Regional qualifying is $2500 and Finals are $2500
Entry fees in 2010 for the PGA TOUR are as follows: first-stage qualifying is $4,500, second-stage qualifying is $4,000 and the finals is $3,500.
About 50 PGA Tour cards are issued each year through the PGA Tour Qualifying School and the Web.com Tour graduation. These cards give players full membership status on the PGA Tour for the following season.
National Insurance sponsored the championship, which was renamed as Nationwide Tours in 2003, it was originally called Web.com tours. The Web.com tours is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's qualifying school (the main tours qualifying tournament, popularly referred as Q-school) to earn their PGA tour card.
People who qualify for it through Q-School
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.
You can check it here: http://golftips.golfsmith.com/qualify-senior-pga-tour-1894.html
Yes, There are a couple of ways to play on the PGA without a tour card. One way is a sponsors exemption. obv, this is really hard as you have to be pretty well known... Another way is most Open tournaments have a qualifying tournament to get into the main tournament. An example of someone that never had to go to Q-school or Play on the Nationwide tour is Tiger Woods.