2002 Buy.com Tour
Year2002
TourBuy.com Tour
Regular seasonMarch 7, 2002 – October 27, 2002
No of events28
Most winsPatrick Moore (3)
Honor 1Money list
Honoree 1Patrick Moore
Honor 2Player of the Year
Honoree 2Patrick Moore
Prevseason2001
Nextseason2003

The 2002 Buy.com Tour was the 13th season of the Buy.com Tour, the official development tour to the PGA Tour.

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2002 season.[1]

DateTournamentLocationPurse
(US$)		Winner[a]OWGR
points		Other
tours[b]		Notes
Mar 10Jacob's Creek Open ChampionshipAustralia500,000Gavin Coles (1)12ANZNew to Buy.com Tour
Mar 17Holden Clearwater ClassicNew Zealand500,000Peter O'Malley (n/a)12ANZNew to Buy.com Tour
Apr 14Louisiana OpenLouisiana450,000Steven Alker (1)6
Apr 21Arkansas ClassicArkansas450,000Jace Bugg (1)6
Apr 28BMW Charity Pro-AmSouth Carolina525,000Charles Warren (1)6Pro-Am
May 5Virginia Beach OpenVirginia425,000Cliff Kresge (1)6
May 12Greater Richmond OpenVirginia425,000Patrick Moore (1)6
May 19SAS Carolina ClassicNorth Carolina450,000Zoran Zorkic (1)6
Jun 2Northeast Pennsylvania ClassicPennsylvania450,000Gary Hallberg (1)6
Jun 9Samsung Canadian PGA ChampionshipCanada450,000Arron Oberholser (1)6
Jun 23Lake Erie Charity ClassicNew York425,000Patrick Moore (2)6New tournament
Jun 30Knoxville OpenTennessee425,000Darron Stiles (3)6
Jul 7Hershey OpenPennsylvania425,000Cliff Kresge (2)6
Jul 14Dayton OpenOhio425,000Jason Buha (1)6
Jul 21Fort Smith ClassicArkansas425,000Todd Fischer (1)6
Jul 28Price Cutter Charity ChampionshipMissouri475,000Patrick Sheehan (1)6
Aug 4Omaha ClassicNebraska500,000Jay Delsing (2)6
Aug 11LaSalle Bank OpenIllinois450,000Marco Dawson (1)6New tournament
Aug 18Preferred Health Systems Wichita OpenKansas425,000Tyler Williamson (1)6
Aug 25Permian Basin OpenTexas425,000Tag Ridings (1)6
Sep 8Utah ClassicUtah425,000Arron Oberholser (2)6
Sep 15Oregon ClassicOregon425,000Jason Gore (2)6
Sep 22Albertsons Boise OpenIdaho575,000Jason Gore (3)6
Sep 29State Farm OpenCalifornia450,000Andy Miller (1)6
Oct 6Bank of America Monterey Peninsula ClassicCalifornia450,000Roland Thatcher (1)6
Oct 13Gila River ClassicArizona425,000David Branshaw (1)6
Oct 20Hibernia Southern OpenLouisiana425,000David Morland IV (1)6
Oct 27Buy.com Tour ChampionshipAlabama600,000Patrick Moore (3)6Tour Championship

Money list

For full rankings, see 2002 Buy.com Tour graduates.

The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars.[2][3] The top 15 players on the money list earned status to play on the 2003 PGA Tour.[4]

PositionPlayerPrize money ($)
1Patrick Moore381,965
2Arron Oberholser319,883
3Doug Barron248,175
4Steven Alker247,008
5Cliff Kresge245,265

Awards

AwardWinnerRef.
Player of the YearPatrick Moore[5]

Notes

  1. ^ The number in parentheses after each winner's name is the number of Buy.com Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for Buy.com Tour members. It is rare for someone to accumulate many wins on the Buy.com Tour as success at this level usually leads to promotion to the PGA Tour.
  2. ^ ANZ − PGA Tour of Australasia.

References

  1. ^ "2002 Tournament schedule". PGA Tour. Archived 11 October 2004 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  2. ^ "2002 money list". PGA Tour. Archived 2 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Patrick Moore declared Buy.com tourney winner". Tuscaloosa News. 28 October 2002. p. 10 (3C in paper). Retrieved 2 September 2023. – via Google News Archive. Moore earned $108,000 for the victory and moved into the top spot on the Buy.com money list with $381,965.
  4. ^ "Se Ri Pak brings honor home". Herald-Journal. 27 October 2002. p. 139 (B6 in paper). Retrieved 2 September 2023. – via Google News Archive. The top 15 players on the money list earned exemptions to the 2003 PGA Tour.
  5. ^ "Woods again PGA Player of the Year". Lewiston Morning Tribune. 7 January 2003. p. 11 (10B in paper). Retrieved 8 July 2023. – via Google News Archive. Patrick Moore was the Buy.com Tour Player of the Year after winning three times...