Why the PGA Tour’s fall season is essential to success of golf going ahead

Opposite to in style perception, the PGA Tour’s offseason is over.

Simply two weeks in the past, Viktor Hovland decimated East Lake Golf Membership to win the FedEx Cup and cement himself as among the best gamers on this planet.

However this week, the PGA Tour heads to Northern California, the place the Fortinet Championship kicks off the autumn schedule.

Hovland is not going to be there, as he and the complete European Ryder Cup crew are enjoying within the DP World Tour’s BMW PGA Championship outdoors of London.

However Justin Thomas and Max Homa, who will characterize Crew USA in Rome, will likely be. They’re the one two Ryder Cuppers enjoying in Napa this week. Humorous sufficient, Captain Zach Johnson is within the area, too.

PGA Tour Fall Schedule & It’s Significance

The Fortinet Championship is the primary of seven occasions this fall, that are listed in its entirety beneath:

1. Fortinet Championship – Sept. 14-17 – Napa, California
2. Sanderson Farms Championship – Oct. 5-8 – Jackson, Mississippi
3. Shriners Youngsters’s Open – Oct. 12-15 – Las Vegas, Nevada
4. ZOZO Championship – Oct. 19-22 – Chiba, Japan
5. Worldwide Expertise Championship – Nov. 2-5 – Los Cabos, Mexico
6. Butterfield Bermuda Championship – Nov. 9-12 – Southampton, Bermuda
7. The RSM Traditional – Nov. 16-19 – St. Simons Island, Georgia

Lots of the high 30 gamers who teed it up on the Tour Championship in Atlanta will seemingly skip out on most of—if not all—these occasions.

So, too, will the highest 50, as those that certified for the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields mechanically qualify for the primary two PGA Tour’s Signature Occasions in 2024, The Sentry and the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am.

However these gamers outdoors of that threshold, like Thomas, will compete for FedEx Cup factors at every Fall occasion, with 500 factors going to the winner.

Plus, winners earn a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour. Gamers ranked throughout the high 10 over these seven tournaments will even qualify for The Sentry and the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am. In fact, meaning the highest 10 not beforehand eligible.

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But when somebody like Peter Malnati, presently ranked a hundred and fifteenth, performs nicely this fall, he would qualify for the Signature Occasions. Contemplating the big purses and elevated visibility of these tournaments, that could possibly be a career-changing second for Malnati and others like him.

That’s the reason the following two months on the PGA Tour calendar are so essential and essential to the success of golf going ahead.

Though not the most important occasions, these seven tournaments are the place desires are made and hopes are crushed. A number of touring professionals must play nicely, or else they must attempt to earn their 2024 PGA Tour card by means of Q-College in December or attempt to rebound on the Korn Ferry.

Primarily, the PGA Tour fall makes or breaks, and determines the sector for a few of the most vital occasions in 2024. The stress is ramped up, though, on the floor, it could not seem that manner.

Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By means of. You possibly can observe him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Be sure you try @_PlayingThrough too.