His rookie year on the PGA Tour was challenging enough for Jacob Bridgeman.
He got in 20 tournaments, none of them majors or The Players Championship, 20 million signature events or the FedEx Cup playoffs. He played seven times in the fall and did just well enough to keep his heart rate down and his ranking inside the top 125 to keep his card.
And then the PGA Tour approved a plan during the final week of 2024 to reduce the number of players keeping their cards to 100.
Gulp.
"I think it makes it tougher and tougher on the rookies," Bridgeman said. "I feel like my rookie year was really hard, and this one was probably harder because there were less cards."