Enhance in no-cut occasions and occasions with restricted fields; eight ‘signature occasions’ type a part of 36-event common season; PGA Tour says new-look schedule will create “pleasure for our followers and reward gamers like by no means earlier than”; watch the PGA Tour reside on Sky Sports activities Golf
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The PGA Tour has launched a brand new “reimagined” schedule for the 2024 season, which options extra no-cut occasions than ever earlier than and an elevated $25m prize for the winner of the FedExCup.
Returning to a calendar-year schedule for the primary time since 2012, the PGA Tour has described the occasions as being “interconnected like by no means earlier than to ship most drama and consequence”.
The FedExCup Common Season will include 36 occasions.
The 2024 season begins in early January with the ‘Opening Drive’ double-header at The Sentry and Sony Open in Hawaii, and runs by to the Wyndham Championship in early August.
These tournaments embrace the 4 majors, The Gamers Championship and eight ‘signature occasions’.
On the finish of the common season, the highest 70 gamers will advance to the FedExCup Playoffs.
“We’re excited concerning the roll-out of the PGA Tour’s reimagined schedule and what the season will supply to our followers: a January begin with stars competing head-to-head extra usually, alongside the weekly drama of life-altering moments and the emergence of recent stars,” mentioned PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan.
“Whereas successful on the PGA Tour continues to be the last word – and most tough – problem, we’ve got additional related each match, with extra at stake every week.
“From The Sentry by the FedExCup Playoffs and into the soon-to-be-announced FedExCup Fall, this new, cadence will create constant pleasure for our followers and reward gamers like by no means earlier than.
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Charley Hoffman makes an albatross on the fifteenth gap of the Sedgefield Nation Membership on the Wyndham Championship
“We’re grateful to the membership – particularly the Participant Administrators and Participant Advisory Council – in addition to our tournaments and companions for the collaboration that has set us up for an thrilling 2024.”
The discharge of the 2024 calendar comes two months after the the PGA Tour and DP World Tour introduced a shock proposed settlement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund, which funds LIV Golf, to type a brand new joint industrial entity with the intention to “unify the sport”.
The ‘signature occasions’ defined
Beforehand known as ‘designated occasions’ in 2023, the newly-renamed signature occasions underline the continued evolution of the PGA Tour’s season format.
The eight occasions are limited-field tournaments with elevated prize cash and FedExCup factors.
5 of those is not going to characteristic a reduce, however the three player-hosted invitationals – The Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Memorial Match – will nonetheless characteristic a 36-hole reduce to the highest 50 and ties and any participant inside 10 photographs of the lead.
The eight ‘signature occasions’ are as follows:
- The Sentry (January 1-7)
- AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am (January 29-February 4)
- The Genesis Invitational (February 12-18)
- Arnold Palmer Invitational offered by Mastercard (March 4-10)
- RBC Heritage (April 15-21)
- Wells Fargo Championship (Could 6-12)
- the Memorial Match offered by Workday (June 3-9)
- Vacationers Championship (June 17-23)
Explaining the qualification course of for these occasions, the PGA Tour mentioned in an announcement: “The 2024 schedule cadence connects occasions by a number of new eligibility paths, permitting trending gamers to earn Signature Occasion begins and guaranteeing each member the chance to compete alongside the sport’s finest.
“The Sentry is the season’s first Signature Occasion and contains PGA TOUR winners from the earlier calendar 12 months in addition to the highest 50 members from the 2022-23 FedExCup standings (i.e. those that qualify for the BMW Championship, the second FedExCup Playoffs occasion).
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“Eligibility for the remaining seven Signature Occasions (area sizes anticipated to be between 70-80 gamers) contains the highest 50 members from the 2022-23 FedExCup standings and 15 members who can play their method in by The Subsequent 10 and The Swing 5.”
The AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am is a brand new addition to that listing for 2024 and can characteristic a revised format. Amateurs will now compete alongside professionals (80 gamers) over the primary two rounds, with the competitors restricted to professionals just for the ultimate two rounds.
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