With the deadline to sign up for LPGA Q-School looming, Bailey Tardy thought she had made up her mind: She was passing.
Twice in three years, Tardy had come excruciatingly close to earning her LPGA card through the tour’s development circuit, the Epson Tour, so the thought of going back to Q-School – and potentially falling short again – wasn’t exactly appealing to the 26-year-old University of Georgia product. Taking some time off seemed like the better option.
“I didn't want to come to Q-School at all,” Tardy said. “Even at the beginning of the year, I told everyone, ‘I'm not going to Q-School.