Changes are a comin’ to the PGA Tour but one thing that’s not new is that a new crop of golfers will earn promotion to the big stage following the conclusion of this week’s Korn Ferry Tour Championship.
There are 16 who have already clinched their cards for next season with another 14 to be handed out come Sunday night at Victoria National Golf Club in Newburgh, Indiana.
But between now and then is 72 holes of intensity, future status of playing privileges hanging in the balance.
The 2024 PGA Tour schedule features a return of the calendar-based schedule. The season starts in Maui at The Sentry in January.
Here’s some of the key things to know about this week’s 2023 Korn Ferry Tour Championship.
A Korn Ferry Tour sign at the Live and Work in Maine Open at Falmouth Country Club in Falmouth, Maine. (Photo: Omar Rawlings/Getty Images)
There are 73 players in the Korn Ferry Tour Championship field with Grayson Murray and Nicholas Lindheim taking the week off (Lindheim is in the field at the PGA Tour’s Sanderson Farms Championship).
All 73 have a chance to move inside the top 30. The event is a 72-hole, no-cut event and it’s likely that there will be some Sunday fireworks down the stretch before it’s all settled.
The 25 graduates of the Korn Ferry Tour pose for photos after earning their PGA tour cards after the final round of the Pinnacle Bank Championship at The Club at Indian Creek in Omaha, Nebraska. (Photo: Steve Dykes/Getty Images)
The golfer who nabs the No. 1 spot on the season-ending Korn Ferry Tour Points List gets some serious bennies:
- Fully exempt 2024 PGA Tour membership
- A spot in the 2024 Players Championship
- A spot in the 2024 U.S. Open
Those who finish No. 2 through No. 30 will also earn their PGA Tour cards and will have status as “Korn Ferry Tour graduates”.
A golf ball and signage of the Korn Ferry Tour during the third round of the MGM Resorts Championship at Paiute at the Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort in Las Vegas. (Photo: David Becker/Getty Images)
While some will feel the sting of not finishing in the top 30 this weekend, all is not lost. Those golfers who finish between No. 31 and No. 60 will head right to the Final Stage of PGA Tour Q-School.
Meanwhile, the Nos. 61-75 finishers will go right to the Second Stage of Q-School.
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