There is no extra PGA Tour Q-School, there are Web.Com Tour Playoffs. And this 12 months they brought a brand new wrinkle.
One thing that didn't trade is that the season's money winner were given a Golden Ticket -- a completely-exempt PGA Tour card. That man is Patton Kizzire (pictured beneath), who beat every person else by way of round $200k or so. You can examine greater approximately Patton at this link.
In the period in-between, allow me bring you on top of things on what's approximately to happen, just if you are new to this.
Instead of the previous Q-School which basically meant you performed six instantly rounds and true good fortune to you, the Web.Com Tour Playoffs give you sixteen rounds inside the form of four tournaments. (The first one, the Hotel Fitness Championship, starts offevolved nowadays.) Instead of just looking to shoot the six lowest rounds you could after which hoping you shot low sufficient, now there's per week-via-week opposition with economic awards. At the give up of the four tournaments, the top winners on that cash listing get Tour cards.
Unlike the preceding gadget, one horrific week does not necessarily kill you in case you play properly in the course of the other three. In many methods it is a miles higher indication of ways players will do on the Big Tour.
In this gadget, the pinnacle seventy five gamers from the Web.Com Tour and numbers 126-200 from the PGA Tour -- this is, the primary seventy five guys to have overlooked the FedExCup Playoffs -- plus some unique exemptions will play in those four activities. You can examine that listing here.
There are 50 cards up for grabs, 25 of that have already been offered. They went to the pinnacle 25 gamers at the season-long Web.Com Tour cash listing. Patton Kizzire were given the exceptional one, as already referred to, however the other 24 guys are pleased additionally. The twist this yr is that the ones 25 players get to hold their cash totals from the yr, which will put them manner beforehand of the opposite players. But why not? They are not going to lose their cards. All they're doing is jockeying for function -- that's proper, the holder of card #25 can move up if he performs properly!
Numbers 26-75 on the season-long Web.Com Tour cash list are guaranteed Web.Com Tour playing cards, no matter what. But they and the 75 PGA Tour players will all be gambling for the alternative 25 cards -- once more, decided by means of being the top cash winners throughout these Playoffs.
Then, the cards can be alternated -- that is, Patton can be #1, then the winner from the bigger group may be #2, then the following Web.Com Tour card holder can be #3, then the next from the bigger organization, etc. They'll alternate right down to the very last card. (I consider I've explained that effectively. Again, here's the Web.Com Tour's rationalization of how it works.)
So there you go. The final scramble for playing privileges on the PGA Tour begins today. The first round of the Hotel Fitness Championship will be on GC starting at 3pm ET . Let the games begin!
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