How is the PGA Tour 2024 schedule structured?
According to the announcement from the host organization on August 7, the PGA Tour 2024 program includes eight special tournaments, four majors and The Players Championship, 18 mid-range tournaments with a maximum list of matches and five sub-tournaments.
In the special group, the prize fund is 20 million USD, there are three events associated with the name or hosted by famous players - Arnold Palmer Invitational, Tiger Woods with Genesis Invitational, Jack Nicklaus with Memorial Tournament. Particularly for this trio of tournaments, there is a cutout according to the principle of taking the top 50 with players up to 10 strokes from the top of the table, applied after Woods stated his personal opinion. In terms of prize money, the Invitational and Memorial awards both give four million USD to the champion, equivalent to 20% of the fund
Meanwhile, the remaining five peer-to-peer prizes have no filter points, and the cup holder receives $3.6 million, corresponding to the standard level of 18%.
The major quartet still follows the traditional schedule - the Masters in April, the PGA Championship in May, the US Open in June and The Open in July.
The group of five sub-prizes will have a significantly lower bonus and score fund compared to the mid-range group, but it will be an opportunity to find a place to compete in bigger tournaments and especially the cup holder will get a full-time membership card in the next two seasons.
As for the competition for the all-round championship, PGA Tour players will still accumulate points from the start of the season to the Wyndham Championship. At the end of this tournament, the top 70 FedEx Cup tables will enter the playoffs series including St. Jude Championship, BMW Championship and Tour Championship grand final for three consecutive weeks. In the playoffs and grand finals, the list of matches continues to be based on the FedEx Cup table and decreases in the order of the top 70 – 50 – 30 like the current season, instead of the top 125 – 70 – 30 applied before.
The current full-season champion will receive $ 18 million, but in 2014 will receive up to $ 25 million.
PGA Tour 2024 is scheduled to take place from January 4 to September 1. After this framework, the organization that owns the first-class golf arena in the United States will open the "Fall Series" from mid-September to the end of November. This program combines with the previous top 70 FedEx Cups to close the list of 125 players worldwide. time for the next season.
