PGA Tour Announces New Season-Ending Structure and Postseason Format
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The PGA Tour announced on Tuesday a new season-ending structure and postseason format that will span three weeks and be implemented at the conclusion of the 2028 campaign. It is highlighted by a two-week Tour Championship contested among the top 32 players in match play at a pair of renowned venues that will rotate annually.
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ESPNPGA Tour postseason to conclude with match play The PGA Tour's future postseason will include a Championship Series Finale -- a 72-hole, stroke-play tournament that will finalize the points list and determine the season-long champion -- followed by match play over two weeks.
Sky SportsFrom 2028, the PGA Tour's Tour Championship will be played in a match play format, but what will that look like? And how will players qualify for the event? Watch this week's Tour Championship live on Sky Sports Golf from Thursday
Bleacher ReportThe PGA Tour is adopting a new playoff format that will start in 2028. Per a release from the PGA Tour, the format will feature three components starting with the PGA TOUR Championship Series Finale followed by a two-week TOUR Championship.
Yahoo SportsIn the first year of the new two-tier Championship and Challenger Series format, a 90-player stroke-play event will determine the season-long points champion. The top 32 players in the final points standings will then advance to a reimagined, two-week Tour Championship, beginning with a World Cup-style group stage before shifting to a March Madness-style knockout bracket.
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This new playoff structure will replace the current FedEx Cup playoff that features a progressive elimination structure over three tournaments, all of which utilize the traditional 72-hole stroke-play format.
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Sky SportsFrom 2028 onwards, the current series of FedExCup Playoffs, which are played in a stroke play format, will be replaced by:
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"The conclusion of the season should be worthy of the journey it takes to get there," Tiger Woods said Tuesday. "Today's announcement is a result of the hard work and passion of our players. Excited to usher in a new era of match play on the PGA Tour."
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Sky SportsWoods backs new PGA Tour postseason structure Writing on X on Tuesday, Tiger Woods expressed his excitement at the proposed changes.
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When the Tour Championship tees off Thursday at East Lake, Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Wyndham Clark and 27 other finalists tee it up, they'll be competing for a share of $40 million in prize money, with a cool $10 million going to the winner. Even the player who finishes dead last will be somewhat consoled with a $355,000 check.
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Yonhap SportsWith the total purse of $40 million, the Tour Championship is the most lucrative tournament of the year. The winner will take home $10 million.
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Immediately after the 2023 Tour Championship, East Lake had a $30 million renovation on tees, fairways, greens and bunkers. Also, the PGA Tour eliminated the "starting strokes" system last year. Until 2024, the leader in FedEx Cup points started the Tour Championship at 10-under, with No. 2 beginning at eight-under, and so forth. Higher-ranked players no longer enjoy a massive advantage, with everyone starting from zero now.
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Yahoo SportsAfter the PGA Tour reversed the nines for the 2016 Tour Championship (flipping the unpopular par-3 finish into the ninth hole), the club made the new routing permanent for regular play. East Lake underwent another major restoration following the 2023 Tour Championship, this time by Andrew Green, that focuses on bringing back the course's Donald Ross heritage. Green used a 1949 aerial to inform the replacement of bunkers and the shape of greens, which are much larger and possess a wider variety of hole locations and slopes than before. Almost every hole was dramatically revamped, creating a course that poses driving options and requires the careful calibration of each shot rather than a mere test of straight hitting. The result is a massive jump in our rankings.
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Only the top 30 players in FedEx Cup points after the second playoff event, the BMW Championship last week, qualified for the Tour Championship.
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Bleacher ReportThe FedEx Cup playoff consists of the St. Jude Championship, BMW Championship and TOUR Championship. The top 70 players make the initial field with 20 being eliminated after each of the first two events.
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01 Sky Sports It is one of a series of major schedule shake-ups coming to the PGA Tour, with the US circuit also set to introduce a new two-tier system which will feature promotion and relegation.
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02 CBS Sports "The result is a season-ending structure that rewards excellence over the course of the year while building toward a reimagined Tour Championship. We are creating something different, something distinct within professional golf that can resonate far beyond it."
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03 Yahoo Sports After last week's BMW Championship, three golfers were able to jump into the 30-player field this week, most notably Patrick Cantlay, whose second-place finish vaulted him from No. 43 to No. 19. Gary Woodland's T-4 and Robert MacIntyre's T-7 were enough for both to pick up four more rounds. And with those successes, Kurt Kitayama, Rickie Fowler and Bud Cauley were bumped.
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04 Bleacher Report The tournaments are the PGA Tour Championship Series and PGA Tour Challenger Series, with 15 events expected to comprise the Championship Series. All of those events will have a prize purse of at least $20 million.
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05 Fox Sports PGA Tour News, Stories, Videos & Analysis - FOX Sports PGA Tour News, Stories, Videos & Analysis FOX Sports
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06 Yonhap Sports By Yoo Jee-ho SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Yonhap) -- Two South Korean players will tee off at an exclusive-field PGA Tour playoff finale this week, with the winner's prize money of US$10 million on the line.
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