Aug. 25 (UPI) — Elite golfers will compete in a two-week match play competitors to cap the PGA Tour Championship Collection beginning in 2028, officers introduced Tuesday.
The PGA Tour introduced in June that it might revamp its playoff system with a brand new aggressive construction, which incorporates the Championship Collection and PGA Tour Challenger Collection.
"From the start, the aim of the long run competitors committee was to create an easier-to-follow aggressive mannequin for our followers with higher consequence and a stronger season-long narrative," PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp mentioned in a information launch.
"All through this course of, we listened fastidiously to our followers, gamers and companions. One message got here by clearly: the end result of our season ought to be worthy of the journey it takes to get there."
Contributors within the Championship Collection will compete in 72-hole tournaments and be measured by a season-long factors system. The season, which can run from February to August, will function about two dozen occasions, together with the Gamers Championship, majors and worldwide workforce occasions.
The Prime 90 gamers will then compete in a Championship Collection finale — a 72-hole, stroke-play match. That can decide the season-long factors winner.
The primary week of the revamped Tour Championship will function the Prime 32 gamers from the season-long standings, cut up between eight teams of 4 gamers, competing for 3 days in group match play.
Every participant will battle the opposite three gamers of their group in separate matches. The Prime 2 gamers from every group will advance to the second week of the Tour Championship.
The 16 gamers who advance will compete in head-to-head match play at a distinct venue than the earlier week. They’ll advance by a bracket primarily based on their win-loss information, with the ultimate two undefeated gamers assembly in a final-day showdown for the title.
The PGA Tour will announce dates and venues for the 2028 Championship Collection on Feb. 22. Eligibility for the sequence can be introduced after a Sept. 14 board assembly.
A minimal of 20 gamers from the PGA Tour Challenger Collection can be promoted to the PGA Tour Championship Collection in 2029. At the least 90 of the 130 PGA Tour Championship gamers can be totally exempt for the subsequent season, whereas those that fail to retain membership danger relegation to the Challenger Collection.
Challenger Collection gamers who win a couple of occasion in the identical season — or a serious title — will obtain rapid promotion.
The 2026 version of the present FedEx Cup Playoff system — which options three tournaments — will conclude with the 2026 Tour Championship. That competitors can be held from Thursday by Sunday at East Lake Golf Membership in Atlanta.
