PGA Tour schedule 2024: Notable modifications embrace solely three signature occasions with 36-hole cuts

The PGA Tour launched its official 2024 regular-season and FedEx Cup Playoffs schedule Monday, and it seems to be totally different than it ever has earlier than. Essentially the most notable change — past returning to a calendar-year season for the primary time in a decade — is that solely three of the eight signature occasions (previously often known as designated) will function an ordinary 36-hole lower.

In whole, there can be 36 regular-season occasions and three postseason tournaments on the calendar with eight receiving signature standing alongside the fiftieth enjoying of The Gamers Championship and the 4 main championships. Of the eight signature occasions, the Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Memorial Event will function 36-hole cuts as a discipline of 80 gamers can be trimmed to the highest 50 and ties on the midway level.

Eligibility for signature occasions contains the highest 50 finishers from the 2022-23 FedEx Cup standings, “The Subsequent 10” — the highest 10 in that 12 months’s FedEx Cup standings (not in any other case exempt), “The Swing 5” — the highest 5 factors earners from full-field occasions between signature occasions (not in any other case exempt) — the highest 30 within the Official World Golf Rankings and all match winners from the present season. Every signature occasion may even have 4 sponsor exemptions.

No cuts can be made made at The Sentry, AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am, RBC Heritage, Wells Fargo Championship or Vacationers Championship in addition to the three FedEx Cup Playoffs occasions. Signature occasions won’t be necessary for prime gamers in 2024, although they may nonetheless have considerably larger purses.

The Pebble Seaside Professional-Am receives signature standing in lieu of the WM Phoenix Open, which can as soon as once more conclude on Tremendous Bowl Sunday (Feb. 11). The Phoenix Open isn’t the one match to be affected within the new schedule because the Canadian Open can be moved up one week on the calendar and change spots with the Memorial.

The Memorial will now be performed in June kicking off a stretch of three straight high-level occasions with the U.S. Open and Vacationers Championship to observe. The 2024 Paris Olympics will have an effect on the schedule, too, because the competitors takes place the week earlier than the Wyndham Championship, pushing the regular-season finale and the postseason again by per week.

Following the 2024 season, the FedEx Cup Fall emerges the place gamers will jostle for positioning forward of the 2025 season. The FedEx Cup Fall will finalize the highest 125 eligibility and supply exempt standing into full-field occasions in addition to the Gamers Championship. Gamers ranked No. 51 or increased from the earlier 12 months’s FedEx Cup will carry over their factors into the autumn and proceed to build up in direction of their eligibility standing. 

The highest 10 finishers from the FedEx Cup Fall, not in any other case exempt, can be eligible for the AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am and the Genesis Invitational. Winners through the FedEx Cup Fall may even obtain a two-year PGA Tour exemption, entry into The Sentry and the Gamers Championships in addition to invites to main championships that exempt PGA Tour winners.

The FedEx Cup Fall portion of the 2024 PGA Tour schedule can be introduced at a later date.

Notable modifications to 2024 PGA Tour schedule

• Signature occasions usually are not necessary for star gamers
• 700 FedEx Cup factors awarded to the winner of signature occasions
• Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Memorial can be 80-man fields with 36-hole cuts for prime 50 and ties
• Signature occasions with no 36-hole cuts: The Sentry, AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am, RBC Heritage, Wells Fargo Championship, Vacationers Championship and FedEx Cup Playoffs
• The Memorial can be performed the week previous to the U.S. Open
• $25 million bonus can be awarded to 2024 FedEx Cup champion, up from $18 million in 2023

2024 PGA Tour schedule

Signature occasions in daring