Rory McIlroy<\/a> last week referred to the secondary tier as a \u201cglorified Korn Ferry event,\u201d referring to the tour’s developmental circuit.<\/p>\n\u201cI just think there’s going to be certain events that might lose their status if a sponsor doesn’t pony up $30 million,\u201d McIlroy said.<\/p>\n
Each tour will have a separate points standings and there is no plan for players to move up to the Championship Series during the season unless they were to win twice.<\/p>\n
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The Championship Series eligibility would be determined by the top 90 players from the previous year, the top 20 players from the Challenger Series and other exemption categories for tournament winners, injuries or career milestones.<\/p>\n
The other big change is the \u201cintroduction of match play\u201d in the postseason and a Tour Championship that will move around to prestigious courses instead of returning to East Lake in Atlanta each year, as it has done since 2004. Those details are still being worked out.<\/p>\n
As for the fall, the PGA Tour is moving toward a separate series of four to six tournaments in which top performers can earn their way back to the Championship Series. The tour said it still has plans for the Korn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour Americas and the PGA Tour University ranking system that creates places for top college players.<\/p>\n
Finishing in August would give the elite players time to consider playing overseas, such as premier European tour events or the Australian Open. The PGA Tour recently became partners with Golf Australia without co-sanctioning the century-old event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE – PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp speaks at the Tour Championship golf tournament, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[459,1443,1449,1600,1059,7892,9062],"class_list":["post-36270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bmw-championship","tag-article","tag-bmw-championship","tag-tp-bryson-dechambeau","tag-tp-jordan-spieth","tag-tp-scottie-scheffler","tag-tp-tom-kim","tag-tp-will-zalatoris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}