First thing to say is that the two are not mutually exclusive – A PGA Pro will often play as a Tour Pro, competing in the same events, and many Tour Pros are also PGA Pros. But at both ends of the spectrum of what golf professionals do for work, there are clear differences in how your average Tour Pro and regular PGA Pro earn their coin. Here, in a nutshell, is how the Tour Pro and PGA Pro ply their trades –
Tour Pro
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A Tour Pro or touring professional golfer predominantly aims to make their living by enjoying a successful competitive playing career. They focus their energies on getting everything they can from their games. The modern tour pro is an athlete who will spend every day trying to improve – practising golf, working on fitness, nutrition, mental strength… Exploring all avenues to give them a competitive edge.
Whether they compete at the very highest level – The PGA Tour, The DP World Tour, LPGA or LET circuits, or even the new LIV Golf tour – or at a lower level on a feeder tour or domestic circuit, their principal focus is winning golf tournaments, or at least finishing as high up on the final leaderboard as possible to earn prize money and status to get their name noticed by potential sponsors.
Across the globe there are thousands of Tour Pros, plying their trade on numerous circuits in each corner of the golfing globe. Those on the lower rungs of the ladder may be trying to climb upwards through the rankings to reach the loftier heights of the professional game – To play in those televised tournaments we see each week on the main pro Tours and even to make it into the Majors.
There will also be Tour Pros who play at a lower level and are content to stay at that level – In some cases being a bigger fish in a smaller pond can be more lucrative. The cost of playing on one of the main, international, professional tours is extremely high and, if a Tour Pro doesn’t enjoy a level of success, they can easily spend more than they earn. Playing a circuit closer to home with lower prize funds is a more sensible…
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