For those of you who didn't get the email or read the ad in the DRF this weekend, the NTRA and the contest venues listed below announced that there will be four new "Super Qualifiers" later this year. In addition to 21 NHC spots, the $375K in total purse money represents, as far as I know, significantly higher purses for individual qualifier contests than ever before:
$75K at the Red Rock on 7/4-4
$100K at Mth on 8/29
$100K online for the BC on 11/6-7
$100K at Surfside on 12/26-27.
Those of you who haven't joined the Tour yet should note that each of these contests is restricted to Tour members only.
With the exception of Mth, which happens to be the one I'm most interested in, there's nothing on the sites yet about entry fees, formats, maximums, etc. I have a call in to Jeff Lowich at Mth to find out any details I can, but what is already on the Mth site certainly seems worth mentioning: the total cost to participate will only be $600, of which $400 represents the entry fee and the remaining $200 the player's bankroll. The latter fact leads me to believe that it's probably going to be some kind of live money, or as some here call it "real", contest on the Mth card that day.
P.S. In response to an earlier question, contrary to popular belief the NTRA does not decide the formats of contests, which is a matter within the discretion of the tracks and other contest venues. Hence, there isn't any NTRA "spin" on the question and the viewpoint expressed in my earlier post was mine and mine alone. More specifically, assuming the hypothetical little old lady picking pretty colors isn't a "beard", I'd say the same thing to her that I'd say to Roger Neubauer if he ends up wininng it all next January: "Congratulations."
