There really are not a lot of tours and tournaments in the USA, not counting the $2000 and down ones. If they REALLY wanted to they could all get together and make a rule. Something like, "you can't play in an amatuer tournament if you have cashed 16th or above in a $10,000 (total purse) or above tournament or cashed higher than 8th in an open tournament with over $5000. in purse. That's probably not the right numbers for it but it could be worked out if they wanted to. This doesn't stop the road players, but most good road players don't want their name and picture on the Internet. They don't play in tournaments because they want to stay under the radar, Johnnyt