The PGA Tour’s best players will compete in match play to determine a Tour Champion starting in 2028 as part of a new season-ending structure announced on Tuesday. The new format will be played out over three weeks, starting with the 72-hole stroke play PGA Tour Championship Series Finale featuring the top 90 golfers on the year’s points list to find the season-long winner and set the Tour Championship field. At the conclusion of the Series Finale, the top 32 players will move on to the new-look Tour Championship that will feature match play contested over two weeks at different venues.
This marks a dramatic shift from the current format, a series of three traditional stroke play events featuring a progressive cut with fields of 70, 50 and 30 players. In announcing the changes, the PGA Tour said the goal of the Future Competition Committee, a nine-member group chaired by Tiger Woods, was to create an easier-to-follow competitive model for fans with greater consequence and a stronger season-long narrative. The top two from each of the eight groups advance to Week 2 of the Tour Championship.
The championship will culminate in a four-round, 16-man single-elimination bracket with the final two undefeated golfers battling to be crowned Tour Champion. The changes to the season-ending structure built on the recommendations approved in June when the PGA Tour announced a promotion and relegation model starting in 2028 featuring a Championship Series and Challenger Series. Today’s announcement is a result of the hard work and passion of our players,” Woods wrote on X.
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