q school
n.— «After graduating from Yale, Lee spent the next two years playing on the Futures Tour—the equivalent of baseball’s minor leagues. Lee was then invited this past winter to enter qualifying school—or “Q School” as it is known among golfers—and try to make the cut for the LPGA Tour.» —“Golf alum wins place in LPGA Tour” by R.J. Rico in Yale University Yale Daily News (New Haven, Connecticut) Jan. 14, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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