Roland Thatcher, the professional golfer who plays out of the Carlton Woods Golf Club here in The Woodlands, survived the PGA Tour’s Q School over the past weekend and was awarded a 2005 PGA Tour card.
Although 35 players are awarded Tour cards out of the Q School Tournament each year, there are many more excrutiating stories of failure, such as this one involving Tour veteran Joel Edwards:

Joel Edwards, another past PGA Tour champion, was on the cut line until hitting his tee shot into the water and taking double-bogey. He took a long walk to the parking lot, letting out guttural screams and pounding his bag along the way, paying his caddie and slamming his car door as he drove off.