Particular Occasions
The Tour calls these Signature Occasions. Primarily these are tournaments with the most important purses, the very best gamers from the earlier season, and people on a sizzling streak within the present season. These occasions are along with the Main Championships, the Gamers Championships and the FedEx Playoff occasions. To confuse issues additional, a few of these Signature occasions are a bit extra noteworthy than others. Three particularly: the Genesis Invitational, the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Memorial event may also characteristic a 36-hole minimize which isn’t the norm for restricted discipline occasions. The largest differentiator in these Signature occasions nevertheless will probably be within the distribution of the payouts with the winner taking as a lot as 20% of the entire event purse.
Particular invitees
Determining which gamers from 2023’s FedEx Cup listing get invited to the Signature occasions is a bit just like the factors system for the FedEx Cup when it began in 2007-too advanced for gamers or for the followers to wrap their heads round. The subsequent 10 gamers within the current-season FedEx Cup standings who’re not within the discipline might make their approach into the sector on the premise of their latest play previous every occasion. The opposite standards, which is known as the ‘Swing 5,’ awards 5 spots in occasions based mostly on performances over a shorter interval.
Cash Talks
The FedEx Cup winner in 2024 will take dwelling $25 million, a increase of over $7 million from this 12 months. Then there’s the newly launched Comcast Enterprise TOUR TOP 10 which can double its contribution to a whopping $40 million to be distributed amongst the High 10 gamers of the (common) season.
Additions-tournaments, venues and sponsors
A bunch of recent occasions have been deliberate for the season and can embody ‘The Basic’ in February 2024. Further occasions have been deliberate for Myrtle Seashore, SC and through the Scottish Open.
