SURVIVING Q SCHOOL

Every year some 1200 professional golfers try out for the most exclusive golf tour in the world, the PGA. Only 30 will make it through what is called "Q School" .. the grueling qualifying tournaments they must compete in to earn the coveted PGA card. Q School is the "Survivor" of the golf world. It involves three stages of tournaments and at each stage golfers are eliminated. It's tense, nerve-racking, an endurance test like no other.

In this updated version of a special documentary that first aired last season, Tom Harrington follows several Canadian golfers through the second and final rounds of Q School 2004, and again in 2005.

David Morland, from North Bay, Ontario, has earned his PGA card three times but each time he hasn't done well enough to hang on to it. He failed to get his PGA card back in 2004, and tries yet again in 2005.

Jim Rutledge from Victoria, is 46 years old, and is considered by some to be the best golfer never to make it to the PGA. He's tried Q School fifteen times before, and has come close, but has never made it to the top 30. Will he make it on the sixteenth try?

Ted Brown from Peterborough, Ontario, is a young hopeful who's being bankrolled by a group of American businessmen. But that's only for three years, so he needs to get into the PGA if he wants to keep earning money.

Brian McCann is at Q School for the third time in 2004. While he dreams of the PGA, the more pressing concern is the lesser Nation Wide Tour. He played in that tour last year, but he can't go back unless he does well in the final stage of Q School. He doesn’t quite make it, but in 2005, he returns to Q School, and for awhile it looks as if he might make a breakthrough.

David Hearn is a 26 year old from Brantford, Ontario, who's had success on the Nation Wide Tour. Now he wants to play in the elite ranks of the PGA, for money that could make him wealthy. Why does he return to Q School a second time?

There is much at stake for these men, and in the end the difference between making it and failing, can come down to just one shot. See who makes it, and who does not. See who survives what many pros say is the toughest tournament in golf.