PGA Tour 2010 Preview: Nationwide Tour graduates

It seems like the young players who rise the fastest once they make it to the big show have recently been the graduates of the Nationwide Tour. This hasn't been a surprising trend.

Nationwide Tour players, unlike the Q-School qualifiers to the PGA Tour, earn their cards from consistently solid play over the course of a full season.

Having proven that they can keep up great golf over months of time, we have witnessed many capture early victories on the PGA Tour in addition to managing to keep their TOUR cards.

The Nationwide Tour's 2009 season is over, and the 25 players who will get their shot at PGA Tour events next year have been named. Golf World has published a little preview of the things to come in the form of short bios about those 25 players.

It's worth checking out right here. Some of these names will manage to stick around the PGA Tour for a long time.