Q-School is four stages, 1,300-plus players, and only five PGA Tour cards at the end — no ties, a playoff for fifth.

First Stage wraps today across 14 sites — roughly the top 16–17 and ties at each one move on. Track every site here.

Win your site and you get PGA Tour Americas status. That's the consolation prize for beating 70-plus pros over four rounds.

Names to watch: Preston Summerhays sat on top at Bayonet and amateur Dylan Block shared the lead at Soboba Springs going into Friday's final round.

Second Stage is Dec. 1–4 across five sites, including Kinderlou Forest in Valdosta — the closest Q-School gets to home.

Final Stage is Dec. 10–13 at Sawgrass (Dye's Valley + Sawgrass CC). Top five get 2027 cards; 6–45 get Korn Ferry status.

The implication: the Tour cut full cards to 100 and trimmed the Korn Ferry grad class — this is the tightest pipeline in modern golf. Marcelo Rozo got his first card last December at 36, after 255 career starts.

The Highwaymen: Live at Nassau Coliseum (full concert) — Cash, Willie, Waylon, and Kris on one stage, March 1990. Clear your evening.

"Highwayman" live — four verses, four lives, one song. Start here if you only have five minutes.

"Big River" live — Cash leading, the other three just trying to keep up.

Hank Williams Jr. — full concert, 1989 — Bocephus at his rowdy peak.

Hank Jr. — full show, Biloxi, Valentine's Day 2026 — still doing it at 76.

David Allan Coe — "The Ride" + "Long Haired Redneck," Farm Aid 1994 — the song about hitching a ride with the ghost of Hank Sr. Coe passed in April at 86.

Coe — "You Never Even Called Me By My Name," Farm Aid 1986 — the perfect country song, by its own admission.

S&P 500 - 7.7%

Dow Jones - 6.7%

NASDAQ - 5.7%

Russell 2000 - 10.1%

Joe's Stone Crab, Miami Beach — stone crab season is open. Mustard sauce, hash browns, key lime pie. Non-negotiable.

Pêche, New Orleans — whole Gulf fish over hardwood coals. A James Beard Best New Restaurant that still delivers.

Casamento's, New Orleans — oyster loaf, tile walls, Thursday through Sunday only. They've hinted this season could be the last. Go.

Middendorf's, Manchac, LA — thin-fried catfish since 1934. Worth the detour off I-55.

Bowens Island, Charleston — steamed oysters by the shovel and a marsh sunset. No frills.

Wintzell's Oyster House, Mobile — started in 1938 as a six-stool oyster bar. Get them fried, stewed, or nude.

The Crab Shack, Tybee Island — crab platters dumped on the table, gators out back.

Patience isn't waiting — it's doing the work while nothing seems to happen.

Most relationships don't fail from one blowup. They fail because somebody needed results on a timeline the other person never agreed to.

Give people time to say the hard thing. The first answer is usually the safe one; the real one comes after the pause.

Rozo needed 255 starts to earn a card. Your friendships, your marriage, your career all compound on the same clock.

Who in your circle has stayed patient with you through a bad stretch — and have you ever told them?

Impatience feels like ambition. It's usually fear wearing a nicer jacket.

The people worth keeping will rarely be the ones who showed up fast. They're the ones still there.

The first Saturday after the first CFP rankings, and it's stacked noon to midnight. Full slate and TV here.

Miami at Notre Dame (7:30, NBC/Peacock) — the revenge game. Miami took Notre Dame's playoff spot last year; South Bend hasn't forgotten.

Georgia at Ole Miss (7:30, ABC) — same window as Miami-ND. Two screens, minimum.

Oregon at Ohio State — last year's playoff bracket in a regular-season wrapper.

Alabama at LSU (3:30, ABC) — Death Valley, November, under the lights in spirit even at 3:30.

Noon double: BYU at Utah (the Holy War) and Texas at Missouri. Ease in.

Nightcap: Kentucky at Tennessee (6:15, ESPN) bridges you to primetime. Best regular-season Saturday of the Playoff era — make the call and clear the calendar.

Turks & Caicos — Grace Bay is the benchmark beach. Short flight, zero learning curve.

Anguilla — quieter, better food, the Caribbean's culinary capital. For people who've done Turks.

The Exumas — 365 cays, swimming pigs, Thunderball Grotto. Charter a boat or don't bother.

St. John, USVI — two-thirds national park, no passport needed. Rent a Jeep, find your own beach.

Puerto Rico — no passport, hundreds of weekly flights. Old San Juan by night, Rincón surf by day.

Aruba — dry, breezy, sunshine basically guaranteed. The safe bet.

Costa Rica (Guanacaste) — December through April is dry season. Surf, volcanoes, jungle in one trip. Pick one anchor — a beach, a boat, a surf break — and build the trip backwards from it.

1. Jumping jacks — 60 seconds. Get the blood moving.

2. Air squats — 20 reps. Chest up, full depth.

3. Push-ups — 15 reps. Drop to knees before your form breaks.

4. Reverse lunges — 10 per leg. Control the way down.

5. Plank — 45 seconds. Squeeze everything.

6. Glute bridges — 20 reps. Pause at the top — your golf swing will thank you.

7. Burpees — 10 reps. Rest 90 seconds, then run it back 3–4 rounds. Do the boring work in November so you're not gassed in April.