This week the second one of the 4 Web.Com Tour Finals, the Chiquita Classic, is being performed in Davidson NC -- just north of Charlotte and handiest an hour or so southwest of wherein I stay.
But if you need to recognize how the match goes, you can test in on GC's announces this weekend. What I find maximum charming is the "small tweak" that turned into made to the Web.Com Tour finals this year, and I wager lots of you don't know about it.
In the image below you notice the Top25 from the ordinary season on the Web.Com Tour, the men who've already locked up a Tour card for next yr.
However, lots of you could remember that the graduating elegance from last 12 months's ordinary season were given shortchanged whilst the new PGA Tour season commenced. In the past, the fall season events were given no FedExCup points so there had been lots of spots for the brand new men to tee it up and get their toes wet at the massive tour.
Not so ultimate yr. Web.Com Tour graduates struggled to get spots considering most of them were pretty some distance down the priority listing and could not play, now that the "ordinary" Tour individuals had been busy accruing FedExCup factors.
Needless to mention, this brought about a chunk of grumbling from the brand new children at the block... And rightfully so, for my part. Having earned their cards from a complete year on the Web.Com Tour, they felt they had been shortchanged. And so, so one can accurate the trouble, the Tour's Policy Board determined to make some changes. You can examine about them right here and additionally right here, however I'd like to cognizance at the grandaddy of all of them. As the faqs web page places it:
What takes place to the Regular Season cash listing?
New this year, players from the Web.com Tour will carry their money into the Finals, and will be placed in the priority ranking based off their combined money from the Regular Season and Finals. This becomes very important because (this is from the page defining the new structure):
While the Top-25 players from the Web.Com Tour Regular Season will earn their PGA TOUR playing cards, their order of priority won?T be decided till the belief of the Web.Com Tour Finals. They will now convey their earnings into the Finals and priority might be mounted at the aggregate of Regular Season and Finals earnings.Do you understand what that means? The Web.com players, the ones who worked so hard all season, are going to end up with the highest priorities among the 50 awarded cards. Last year after all four events, Trevor Immelman -- trying to regain his Tour card by playing in only the 4 Finals events -- ranked 23rd with $180,000 and Seung-Yul Noh ranked 19th with $210,125 after only 3 events. Each guy won an event, but they actually got ranked higher than some of the guys who played all year and won multiple events.
And John Peterson got the top seed for the 4 events with $230,000 but without a win at all.
Fast ahead to this yr. After ONE Finals event, Bud Cauley's win last week were given him to #22 with $184,460 (he had $4,460 from a preceding Web.Com occasion this season). The $230,000 that won the top spot after 4 Finals occasions ultimate yr is only excellent enough for the 14th spot after ONE occasion this 12 months! If you didn't play events on the Web.Com Tour this season, you're going to must win A LOT in the course of the Finals to get one of the pinnacle playing cards.
That's going to make it easier for the Web.Com Tour players to get playing time in 2015. And it'll make it a whole lot harder for the ones PGA Tour guys who lost their cards to get them back.
You might need to study the ones pages approximately the new Finals rules. It's going to make things plenty greater interesting over the subsequent three weeks!
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