The PGA Tour and DP World Tour introduced Monday a brand new eligibility class for PGA Tour gamers who would possibly in any other case lose their full playing cards.
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Extra tweaks are on the way in which for professional golfers, and the most recent one will permit for sure FedEx Cup finishers to seek out membership on a unique tour. And no, not simply the Korn Ferry Tour, such as you may be pondering, however throughout the pond on the DP World Tour.
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour announced Monday a brand new eligibility class for PGA Tour gamers who would possibly in any other case lose their full playing cards. Starting with the 2024 season, gamers who end between Nos. 126-200 within the FedEx Cup can now settle for full membership onto the DP World Tour. Moreover, any PGA Tour member may also take up affiliate membership on the DP World Tour when competing in an 2024 Race to Dubai rating occasion.
Each affiliate members and non-members will now seem on a brand new “Non-Member Race to Dubai Factors Listing,” which might assist them qualify for the DP World Tour playoffs and season-ending bonus pool (so long as they play 4 or extra counting tournaments). Affiliate members may also earn full-time membership on the DP World Tour by their performances all year long.
What it means
Based on the discharge, the PGA Tour members who settle for the total membership possibility will play from a newly created Class 12 within the DP World Tour Exemption Class record, though solely 5 gamers from this class can play in a weekly DP World Tour occasion.
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour introduced a “Strategic Alliance” in November 2021, and that is simply the most recent instance of the 2 our bodies working collectively to advertise the opposite. It additionally comes months after the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Public Funding Fund introduced their surprising merger proposal.
This newest transfer follows final 12 months’s announcement that the highest 10 gamers within the DP World Tour’s season-ending Race to Dubai factors record (if not already exempt) will earn PGA Tour playing cards for the next season.
The PGA Tour simply completed the fourth of its seven FedEx Cup Fall occasions, a revamped series that helps determine PGA Tour membership and participant precedence for the next season.
Solely 70 gamers certified for the just lately accomplished FedEx Cup Playoffs, which ensures full PGA Tour standing for 2024. (The highest 50 of these 70 — those that made it previous the primary of three playoff occasions — acquired exemptions into 2024’s big-money signature occasions.)
Those that completed exterior of the highest 70 within the FedEx Cup standings compete within the new fall collection to battle for factors to remain or earn their method inside the highest 125, receiving assured standing for subsequent season.
