Amateurs in PTC’s: Fair Game?

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"Amateur players are encouraged to enter PTC's as a viable route to turning professional, but how realistic is this? This year for instance now the 2 year tour card structure has kicked in, it's virtually certain that no current amateur will turn professional as a result of PTC performances."

"One player stated that amateurs are treated 'like scumbags' another likened amateurs to 'cattle/sponsors of events' and another said he was sick of being treated as an inferior in a tournament where he'd paid the same to enter as everyone else."



"As for amateur players moaning about conditions in terms of the venue or the table, this is something that doesn't really wash with me and is becoming a worryingly common trend in the amateur game, as if mimicking professionals who are usually equally pathetic in doing so."

"Amateur players are treated to superb conditions at the SWSA and at other (what some amateurs deem 'unplayable' or dare I say it 'club' venues, get real guys, there are people starving in the world). Top players learn their craft in all type of situation, one thing great champions have in common is their general reluctance to moan about tables etc. instead getting their heads down and winning."

"My other point would be to the amateur players themselves and this is partly borne out of my own frustration but it's honest. I have had quite a few players that want to enter my tournament this season but have been unable to find or delve down the back of the sofa the £50 entrance fee when asked for it, instead choosing to play in every PTC/ET event, some, in my view bizarrely being sponsored to go down this route (what are the sponsors thinking?)."

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