Golf Central

The latest schedule-tweaking offering from The PGA Tour, the Fall Series is a slate of seven season-ending tournaments which are make-or-break for a handful of players on the Tour. It all climaxes with the Children's Miracle Network Classic in Florida on the first Sunday in November. The target: to either reach or stay in the Top 125 in the tour money list and either keep or earn your Tour playing privileges.
    Michael Allen, who has never won in almost 300 events on the PGA Tour, has been back to Qualifying School an amazing 10 times, and saved himself another trip back with a great finish at Turning Stone last week. But here's a look at some others who might be playing on the big tour next season based on the next few weeks, or who might be scuffling on the Nationwide Tour instead.
 
Bob Tway (No. 146)
Has eight wins, including a major (The 1986 PGA Championship, where he holed out of a bunker to beat Greg Norman) and is in the Top 30 in career PGA Tour earnings. But that might not be enough for the veteran Tway to keep his card, which he used a one-time exemption to keep for this season.
 
Glen Day (No. 154)
The southerner is slow as molasses, hence the nickname Glen "All" Day. But he would quickly like to add to his list of two professional wins in the upcoming weeks.
 
Robert Gamez (No. 170)
A streaky player from Las Vegas with a solid resume who won twice and made a charge in the British Open in his rookie season in 1990. Up and down since.
 
Michael Putnam (No. 149)
Former all-state basketball star is young enough at 24 to set up his career with some strong finishes. He's still looking for his first pro win, and maybe the Fall Series will be his time.
 
Andrew Buckle (No. 142)
Aussie, 25, won the 2002 Queensland Open on his professional debut and surely he's too talented to not stay on the big tour. Isn't he?
 
Bob Heintz (No. 127)
Heintz can roll it with the best of them, and he should be a smart player (he majored in economics at Yale). If anyone should know what keeping a Tour card is all about, it should be this beefy New Yorker, but that hasn't stopped him bouncing off the big tour three previous times.
 
Tripp Isenhour (No. 141)
39-year-old has always had enough game to hang around, but he must be weary of bouncing back and forth between the PGA Tour and the Nationwide.