Web.com Tour Finals

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The Web.com Tour Finals is a series of four golf tournaments that, beginning in 2013, replaced the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament as a means of earning PGA Tour membership for the following season ("Tour cards").

Prior to 2013, the main ways to earn a PGA Tour card, other than by winning a PGA Tour event or finishing in the top-125 on the PGA Tour money list, were to finish on the top-25 of the Web.com Tour money list or to finish in the top 25 of the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament. Fifty PGA Tour cards are available during the Finals.

Tournaments

The Finals are the final four tournaments of the Web.com Tour season. For 2013–15 they were:

Each event has a purse of US$1,000,000[1] (the 2013 purses for other tournaments range from $550,000 to $800,000 with a median purse of $650,000).[2] They feature a 36-hole cut of the top-60 and ties (standard Web.com Tour cut).[1] The events are worth a minimum of 16 points for the Official World Golf Ranking, up from 14 points for regular season Web.com Tour events. The Web.com Tour Championship is worth a minimum of 20 points as the Tour's flagship event, as in the past.[3]

In 2016, the DAP Championship will be part of the final tournaments.[4]

Qualification

There are four ways to qualify for the Finals:[1]

  • Finish in the top-75 on the Web.com Tour's regular season money list.
  • Finish the PGA Tour's regular season ranked 126–200 on the FedEx Cup points list. Not all players with this criterion will compete, as some are already exempt through other means.
  • As a non-member of the PGA Tour, earn enough FedExCup points to place 126–200 on the points list.
  • Special medical exemptions.[5]

Tour cards

In 2013, the top-25 on the regular season Web.com Tour money list were guaranteed PGA Tour cards regardless of their performance in the Finals and the Finals determine their priority ranking. Money earned in the four Finals events determined the remaining 25 PGA Tour cards. The leading money winners on the regular season Web.com Tour money list and the Finals money list were fully exempt on the PGA Tour; the remaining 48 players were ranked for PGA Tour priority purposes based on their Finals earnings.[1] In addition, the money leaders in both the regular season and the Finals received places in the following year's Players Championship.

In 2014 the determination of the priority ranking changed. The top 25 from the regular season money list carried their earnings to the Finals, competing among themselves for priority. The top 25 earners in the Finals only, not including the top 25 from the regular season, again earned PGA Tour cards. The priority rankings were then determined be a "zipper method" with the top 25 in combined regular and Finals earnings taking rankings 1, 3, 5, ... and the top 25 from the Finals taking rankings 2, 4, 6, ...[6][7]

Those who win their third event of the season during the finals are also fully exempt on the PGA Tour. Players who finish in the top 50 on the Finals list also are guaranteed full Web.com Tour status for the next season. The remainder will either attempt to regain their cards through Web.com Tour Qualifying School or make use of limited PGA Tour status if available.

Criticism

One unintended consequence of the change in Q school is that more amateurs are turning professional earlier in the year (June instead of August) in order to have a better chance at earning a PGA Tour card through high finishes via sponsors' exemptions.[8]

Winners

Year Regular season
money winner		 Hotel Fitness
Championship		 Small Business
Connection Ch.		 Nationwide
Children's Hosp. Ch.		 Web.com Tour
Championship		 Finals winner Overall
money winner
2015 United States Patton Kizzire Sweden Henrik Norlander United States Chez Reavie United States Andrew Loupe Argentina Emiliano Grillo United States Chez Reavie United States Patton Kizzire
2014 Mexico Carlos Ortiz United States Bud Cauley Canada Adam Hadwin United States Justin Thomas United States Derek Fathauer United States Derek Fathauer Canada Adam Hadwin
2013 United States Michael Putnam South Africa Trevor Immelman United States Andrew Svoboda South Korea Noh Seung-yul United States Chesson Hadley United States John Peterson United States Chesson Hadley

Bolded golfers received full exemptions for the PGA Tour not subject to re-order. In 2013, golfers who led the regular season money list and the Finals money list received full exemptions.[9] Since 2014, golfers who led the overall money list and the Finals money list received full exemptions.[10]

References

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External links

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