Think you’re feeling holiday stress? Try being Morgan Pressel or Brittany Lang this week. Or one of the other 140 players who’ll battle it out over the next five days in the final 90 holes of LPGA Q-school in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Only the top 24 players will get a card.

Make that final cut and you fulfill your dream of playing professional golf. Miss it and it’s “thanks for trying, see ya next year.” Twenty-four out of 140—no pressure or anything.

Pressel won the US Women’s Amateur this year, and tied for second at the US Women’s Open. Lang tied for second along with Pressel at the Open, and won medalist honors at her sectional Q-school qualifier back in September. Even so, there are no guarantees in life, especially not in golf.

Why play on the LPGA? I can think of a million reasons, as can six LPGA players this year—2005 has been the first year as many players have topped the $1 million mark. Twenty-seven topped the half-mil mark, also a record. As Jean Van de Velde knows all too well, there’s never been a better time to join the LPGA.

In a sign of things to come, Paula Creamer ran away with medalist honors last year, shooting 11 under overall.

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