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A year after finishing ninth on the Nationwide Tour money list Patrick Sheehan is fighting to keep his card on the PGA TOUR.

Oct. 29, 2008
By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM Site Producer

It's cliche to say it, but it's crunch time on the PGA TOUR. There are just two events left for players who are seeking to finish inside the top 125 on the money list to earn exempt status on TOUR in 2009, beginning with this week's Ginn sur Mer Classic. Here's an inside look at the players just inside the 125 line, and the players just outside of it.
2008 MONEY LIST: Click here for full list | GINN SUR MER CLASSIC: List of participants | First-round tee times

Aiming for the top 125

Rank	Player	2008 money	Playing Ginn?	Comment
115	Davis LOVE III	$867,237	Yes	A month ago it was looking like Love, a 19-time winner on the PGA TOUR, might have to use a career-money exemption to retain his card for '09. Two top 10s and a T11 at last week's Frys.com Open have changed that, and the past few weeks have been the most productive and lucrative of Love's season.
116	Jason BOHN	$866,766	Yes	In what's been an injury-plagued couple of years for the 2005 B.C. Open champ, Bohn, playing this year on a major medical exemption after suffering through some serious spinal issues, hasn't played since the U.S. Open. To say the whole thing's been frustrating would be an understatement, especially considering when healthy he did play well with five top 25s, including a pair of top 10s, in 13 events this season.
117	Brad ADAMONIS	$862,413	Yes	Adamonis fell four spots on the money list by virtue of a missed cut at last week's Frys.com Open, but a T10 at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open the week before all but locked up his card for '09.
118	Nick WATNEY	$855,863	No	One of two players on this list to not move up or down, Watney picked up nearly $49,000 in earnings last week after a T20 finish. His PGA TOUR card is already secure next year because of his win in the 2007 Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
119	Shane BERTSCH	$841,248	No	Another guy who can afford to take the week off with six spots between him and the magic number, Bertsch's winnings for this year alone nearly top that of his entire career. It looks like he put that major medical extension for vertigo to good use.
120	J.J. HENRY	$828,122	Yes	Henry's T4 at Grayhawk -- highlighted by a final-round 64 -- couldn't have come at a better time. Just making the cut in one of the next two events will probably be enough to secure his playing privileges for next year.
121	Michael ALLEN	$820,646	No	A missed cut at the Frys.com Open dropped Allen four spots, but his T3 the week before netted him a much-needed $213,000. Now he just has to hope he doesn't drop four spots each of the next two weeks.
122	Tim PETROVIC	$804,477	Yes	Three missed cuts in his last four events have put Petrovic in a precarious position. Only a T11 during that stretch saved him. Nonetheless, two more missed cuts would likely put him on the outside looking in.
123	Charles WARREN	$800,694	Yes	Without the T10 he picked up at Turning Stone a few weeks ago Warren might be making reservations for q-school. Like Petrovic, however, he needs to avoid missing the cut each of the next two weeks.
124	David TOMS	$799,114	No	Toms is exempt through 2011 thanks to having multiple wins on TOUR in recent years. So no need to worry.
125	Patrick SHEEHAN	$795,329	Yes	Sheehan has been grinding the last two-plus months with just one top-20 to show for it. He dropped a spot after a T34 at the Frys.com Open, but he saved himself with a 3-under on the back nine Sunday after shooting a 1-over 36 on the front.

126	Jeff OVERTON	$788,675	Yes	He didn't play last week after undergoing an emergency appendectomy on Oct. 21 and consequently, fell four spots on the money list. Overton will need to do something big to top the $1-million mark again this year, but right now he'd settle for any finish in the top 25, something he's done five times this season.
127	Mark CALCAVECCHIA	$784,810	No	Interesting fact about Calcavecchia: He suffers from sleep apnea and wears an oxygen mask to bed. Like Watney, Calc is good for go for 2009 due to a win in 2007 (PODS Championship).
128	Martin LAIRD	$775,855	Yes	The other player on this list to not move up or down, Laird is coming off a T34 at the Frys.com Open, where his final-round 66 played more like a round of even par. Since three straight top 10s in August Laird hasn't finished better than 34th.
129	Vaughn TAYLOR	$761,783	Yes	Missing the cut at Grayhawk moved the two-time TOUR winner and 2006 U.S. Ryder Cup team member down three spots. He does have two late-season T15 finishes, but those were weeks ago and right now Taylor is trending the wrong direction.
130	Jay WILLIAMSON	$758,862	Yes	Last week made it four missed cuts in a row for Williamson. He hasn't just barely missed cuts either with only one sub-70 round in his last eight, which also included an 81.
131	Steve ALLAN	$743,970	Yes	Normally a T7 would be a great thing, but Allan cost himself at least a couple hundred thousand dollars, and potentially a card for next season, with a bogey-double bogey finish Sunday. On the bright side, it was his fourth top 10 of the season and his third in four starts during the Fall Series.
132	Bob TWAY	$742,412	Yes	A T11 at Grayhawk, highlighted by a third-round 64, was Tway's second top-15 finish in his last two events. If he continues that trend he'll be safe for next season. If not there's always the Champions Tour. Tway turns 50 in May.
133	Matt JONES	$720,929	Yes	A fifth missed cut in his last seven events dropped Jones four spots and into the danger zone. For the season, the rookie from Australia has made just one more cut (15) than he's missed (14).
134	James DRISCOLL	$708,549	Yes	Driscoll has stepped up with two top-22 finishes in his last four events, but a T57 at Grayhawk last week obviously hurt. What hurt more were three missed cuts in August.
135	Jason GORE	$701,510	Yes	After a miserable stretch of missed cuts and WDs from March until June things looked up for Gore with a T11 in Milwaukee, a T8 in Reno and a T8 in Mississippi. Unfortunately, he's had just one top-20 since -- a T19 in Texas -- and has continued to slide down the money list.