PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has actually been making the rounds. He really feels obliged to go out in front of the Tour subscription and also describe specifically what’s boiling down the pike: a totally changed system.
Monahan was in the Dominican Republic recently, one of the most current contrary area occasion, where there was a complete area of the type of gamer whose future appearances much less particular in 2024 than it possibly has in the past. He made a comparable look at the Players Championship, where a gamer conference verged on controversial, according to those on the ground.
The require for these looks is noticeable. The Tour is wrapping up a totally brand-new routine and also qualification framework that is both starting following year and also type of currently in area. Next year the occasions obtain real, yet this year’s efficiency is what issues. In current weeks, Tour gamers have actually recognized that these conferences were practical yet inevitably not a location for much argument. “There’s not much to say when it’s set in stone,” one Tour gamer stated at the Valspar Championship.
This week, we have a far better understanding of what, specifically, is collection in rock, many thanks to a memorandum sent out to the Tour subscription Monday: the circulation of FedEx Cup factors, just how these factors will vary in between competitions, what a “swing” gets on the routine and also what occurs for gamersNo 51, 71 or 126 left outside lookingin
It’s not obtaining tougher to end up being a Tour participant
… it’s simply improving for the very best gamers. The Tour has actually made no modifications to the number of golf enthusiasts that will have a Tour card in their pocketbooks following year. One hundred and also twenty 5 is still the magic overall. When that listing of 125 is secured right into area– that’s transforming.
The autumn will establish the leading 125
When the Tour’s routine period has actually finished, and also the FedEx Cup has actually played out, gamers placed 51st to 70th will have following year’s work safety secured in, yet will have extra rewards to play that autumn. The leading 10 gamers throughout a collection of autumn competitions will play their means right into the initial 2 marked occasions in 2024 (most likely Pebble Beach and also Riviera). Beyond that, gamers placed 71st or even worse will be urged to play in the be up to preserve their area over the water line, which is evaluatedNo 125. For instance, James Hahn completed 117th in 2014. Hahn would certainly take his 400 FedEx Cup factors and also proceed to the autumn, confident to acquire adequate indicate see to it he does not fall to 126th. The autumn will exist as a second playoffs, if you will, to identify that can with confidence begin to construct a timetable for the following fiscal year. The stress will get on– whoever completes 125th will have no problems. Whoever completes 126th will fall the Priority Ranking, below the inbound gamers from the DP World Tour, finishes from the Korn Ferry Tour and also Q-School Put merely, completing 126th is really like completing 171st or even worse. The autumn is essential! The Tour shared this infographic with its subscription Monday night.
Swing, swing, swing … swing, swing.
A preferred term golf followers will need to obtain utilized to isSwing Full Swing, half-swing,West Coast Swing The brand-new routine will consist of lots of “swings” in between marked occasions, little 2- or three-tournament ruptureds where factors are acquired for additional gain access to right into the huge occasions. There is bound to be a swing in January and also a swing prior to the Masters and also a swing via the Texas occasionsin May When the marked occasion stretch passes, the swing factors reset. On to the following swing.
This is just how the Tour maintains its most popular gamers playing its crucial occasions. If Joel Dahmen surfaces in the leading 5 at the Sony Open, after that completes T16 at the Am Ex-spouse and also brightens it off with a T8 at Torrey Pines, he’ll have played much better golf than the majority of non-winners at those competitions and also will be close to the top of the West Coast “swing” credentials. Had he not currently been excluded, he would possibly make his means right into the apparently marked Pebble Beach Pro-Am That marked area would certainly be loaded because of this:
— Top 50 FedEx Cup 2023
— Top 10 not excluded from present FedEx List
— Top 5 not spare that have made one of the most factors THAT SWING (where Joel would certainly make his means in)
— Tournament victors that year (i.e. whoever won the Farmers Insurance Open)
— Top 30 OWGR
— Four Sponsor’s Exemptions
So, what’s a win well worth?
It all depends when it occurs. A win in a significant champion brings limitless splendor, sure, yet it likewise grants 750 FedEx Cup factors. A gamer that has actually done that would certainly simply need to preserve a pulse to make the leading 50 for marked exception the complying with period.
A win at a marked occasion is virtually equally as excellent. Seven hundred factors will most likely to the victors of those tourneys, once more basically strengthening their standing in the complying with period. Could the victor of the Genesis Invitational coating dead last in every various other occasion and afterwards still lose out on the leading 50?Sure Pigs will be flying, however.
Winners of full-field occasions like the Valspar will make 500 factors and also accessibility to the staying marked occasions that period. This might be substantial, as long as it occurs early sufficient. Using this year as an instance, Si Woo Kim’s win at the Sony would certainly have made him a place in every marked occasion the remainder of the year. From there he might conveniently rise right into the leading 50. But J.T. Poston, as an example, won the John Deere Classic in 2014. A win like Poston’s would just have accessibility to the staying marked occasions that schedule period. That would just be the FedEx Cup playoffs. He would certainly make a welcome to the Sentry Tournament of Champions, though! An extra important problem for gamers is the number of FedEx Cup factors will be given out for non-wins. Notably, for a leading 10 coating at the Valspar contrasted to, state, the no-cutGenesis Invitational
Solace forMr 51
Sometime in August, we’ll know that the initial gamer outside looking in will be (unless they’re in some way placed in the leading 30 in the OWGR). That’sMr 51. It’ll be a difficult tablet to ingest, regardless of that they are, yet it’ll be simplified by that gamer maintaining their factors for the autumn press.Mr 51,Mr 61, alsoMr 111 will all take the factors they have actually made to that factor in 2023 and also keep them throughout the autumn. They would certainly wish to maintain playing throughout this mad-dash for factors, yet they would certainly not need to draw back at 0.If Mr 51 can bag one more leading 10 coating in the autumn, they’ll be scheduling their journey to the initial 2 marked occasions of 2024.
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