No. In 1999 the LPGA established a new policy allowing the top three money winners of the Futures Tour to automatically get their LPGA "Exempt Status" tour card. There are not many events on the Futures Tour as the Nationwide Tour (19 in 2007)

Enterprises Has Alot More Futures If you Take a Tour ON it You will See.

They can be. If you look at the futures pricing, you'll see futures contracts that settle in 2013--and futures contracts that settle next month.

You purchase a futures contract by first opening a futures trading account, which is a margin account, with a futures broker. Once that is done, simply choose the specific futures contract you wish to buy and then pay its "Initial Margin", which is a deposit needed to start a futures trade.

A player without a world ranking should look to enter Futures events. As players move up the rankings they enter Challenger and then ATP Tour events.

Futures events are probably the best place to start; they consist of four weeks of tournaments in the same country