PGA Tour will have seven tournaments this fall to amid LIV battle
PGA Tour will have seven tournaments this fall — worth $56.6 million each — for players to either maintain full status, earn a Masters seat, or qualify for $20 million events in 2024 as part of the shake-up of the season during the LIV battle
- The PGA Tour has announced its seven-tournament fall schedule
- It is the first time since 2013 that autumn is not the start of a new season
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The PGA Tour has announced its fall schedule of seven tournaments for players to either maintain full status, earn a spot in the Masters, or qualify for some of next season’s $20 million events.
It is the first time since 2013 that autumn is not the start of a new season.
The tour returns to a calendar season starting in January, part of a shakeup that will allow the top players to compete against each other more often – amid the challenge of Saudi Arabia-backed breakaway league LIV Golf.
The fall schedule does not include the Houston Open, which moves to spring 2024, and the CJ Cup in South Korea.
The CJ Cup has been played twice in Las Vegas and once in South Carolina since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jay Monahan’s PGA Tour has announced its seven-tournament fall schedule
One possibility is that it will return as the new title sponsor of the Byron Nelson in 2024 as AT&T ends its title sponsorship of the long-standing event in the Dallas area.
Only the top 70 players – down from the 125 – qualify for this year’s FedEx Cup playoffs, with the top 50 advancing to the second event.
Those 50 players will be eligible for all designated events in 2024 offering the $20 million purse. The top 30 advance to the Tour Championship.
The FedEx Cup points continue into the fall schedule of seven tournaments for players who finish No. 51 and above.
That allows them to either finish in the top 125 to maintain full tour status, or be among the top 10 not yet eligible and qualify for two $20 million events at the start of the new season .
Winners of fall events, offering a total of $56.6 million in prize money, will earn an invitation to the Masters, PGA Championship, The Players Championship and the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Kapalua.
Four of the seven fall tournaments are in the US, though the schedule runs a geographic stream.
Fall kicks off September 14-17 in Napa, California, with the Fortinet Championship, before taking a two-week break for the Ryder Cup in Italy.
Then it will head west from Mississippi to Las Vegas to Japan on October 5-8. After a week off, the tour heads east to the tip of Baja California in Mexico, then Bermuda and concludes with the RSM Classic at Sea Island along the Georgia coast on November 16-19.
The HSBC Champions in Shanghai is no longer on the schedule.
It has been a World Golf Championships event since 2009 but has not been played since 2019 due to the pandemic.
That ends the WGCs; the Dell Match Play is not part of the 2024 schedule.