Vance Veazey and Tripp Isenhour will not be flying into Queenstown in a private jet for the New Zealand Open at the Hills next month.
Jeff Gove will not be charging $4 million simply to show up, and Henrik Bjornstad will not demand the course officials bring him caviar for a pre-round snack.
They keep things nice and simple on the Nationwide Tour, a place where nobody wants to stay but everyone is grateful to come back if the big show does not work out.
The Nationwide is the developmental tour for the PGA Tour.
Or, if you like, it is the halfway house for good golfers - very good golfers - who are generally promising youngsters trying to get to the world's elite stage for the first time, moderately experienced journeymen plugging away with dreams of greatness, or old stagers hoping to squeeze a few more tournaments out of their five-irons.
There is little comparable to it in world sport.
Normally, you either cut it at the top level or you do not, and there is no safety net.
The Nationwide has been around nearly 20 years, since it was formed as the Hogan Tour, named for the great Ben Hogan.
It offers a decent amount of prize money but only one real prize: a place on the PGA Tour, earned by the top 25 golfers on the Nationwide money list at the end of the year.
Anyone who wins three Nationwide tournaments in a year is also granted entry to the PGA Tour.
The system works.
You have probably heard of Zach Johnson, who topped the Nationwide money list in 2003 and won a little tournament called the Masters in 2007.
More recently, Marc Turnesa and Chez Reavie played on the second-tier tour in 2007.
Last year, both Turnesa and Reavie won PGA titles.
Three years ago, rising stars Boo Weekley and Brandt Snedeker were both Nationwide players.
Now, they are PGA Tour winners and two of the players every golf fan wants to watch.
The point is that Nationwide golfers might be low-profile - at least until they graduate to the big tour - but they can play.
Normally, unless a Phil Tataurangi or a Grant Waite was in contention for a title, New Zealand golf fans would barely spare the Nationwide Tour a thought.
But this year, it is important.
The Tour now co-sanctions the New Zealand Open, with the Australasian PGA, meaning the best Nationwide golfers will be teeing off at the Hills in two weeks' time.
The Open is at the end of a three-tournament swing, which starts with the Moonah Classic, in Victoria, this week and continues through the New Zealand PGA (March 5-8), at Clearwater, and the March 12-15 Open.
Former Otago professional and two-time New Zealand Open champion Greg Turner never played on the Nationwide Tour but knows how it works.
"I suppose the Nationwide Tour is to the PGA Tour what the NPC is to the Super 14," Turner said.
"The traditional route to the PGA Tour was the tour school.
Over the last couple of decades, the numbers grew and they realised they needed a sort of pathway tour.
"It's happened all round the world.
''You've got the Challenge Tour in Europe and the Von Nida Tour in Australia.
"But the Nationwide has accelerated to the point where it would rank close to the European tour in terms of quality."
Turner said the steady flow of world-class golfers from the Nationwide to the PGA Tour proved the system worked well.
He is excited about the prospect of seeing so many talented golfers at the New Zealand Open, which previously had a co-sanctioning deal with the European Tour.
"It gives the Open more relevance, in that most of the Australasian players are trying to get to the PGA Tour and they use the Nationwide Tour to get there.
"European Tour players weren't really that keen on travelling, so the quality was pretty low.
"In terms of actual playing quality, this is a step up.
''There will definitely be more good players."
Veazey (43) won his eighth professional tournament when he claimed the Panama Championship, the opening event of the Nationwide Tour, two weeks ago.
