The Korn Ferry Tour season-long race has 30 PGA Tour cards for next season waiting at the finish line.
Of the 30, 17 have already been earned, leaving 13 up for grabs at the final tournament of the year, the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Championship.
The season-finale will be played at French Lick Golf Resort’s Pete Dye Course in Indiana for the first time, where 75 players will be teeing it up. Matt McCarty, who earned his 2025 PGA Tour card via the three-victory promotion in 2024, is the lone player in the top 30 not there. Instead, he’ll be in the field at the PGA Tour’s Sanderson Farms Championship.
All 75 players who qualified this week have earned 2025 Korn Ferry Tour status no matter what happens this week. It’s the quest for a promotion that will have added inspiration.
Who’s has clinched a 2025 PGA Tour card?
There are 17 players already making their plans for next season on the PGA Tour, led by McCarty, who will be playing in just his second PGA Tour event this week in Jackson, Mississippi. The 2022 U.S. Open was his only other start.
Who are the top 10 in the KFT points?
- 1. Matt McCarty
- 2. Max McGreevy
- 3. Tim Widing
- 4. Steven Fisk
- 5. Frankie Capan III
- 6. Taylor Dickson
- 7. Harry Higgs
- 8. William Mouw
- 9. Brian Campbell
- 10. Thomas Rosenmueller
Who’s inside the top 30 still without a 2025 PGA Tour card?
These players are currently inside the top 30 and would earn their cards by staying in the top 30 after Sunday’s final round.
The first five here have a strong enough points lead that, while none of them are guaranteed anything just yet, probably have done enough to earn their 2025 PGA Tour cards.
- 18. Karl Vilips
- 19. John Pak
- 20. Jackson Suber
- 21. Mason Andersen
- 22. Jeremy Paul
This next group of golfers are currently inside the top 30 but they have others close enough to overtake them. Consider these guys “on the bubble.”
- 23. Kris Ventura
- 24. Ricky Castillo
- 26. Noah Goodwin
- 27. Aldrich Potgieter
- 28. Kaito Onishi
- 29. Trevor Cone
- 30. Sam Bennett
About the Pete Dye golf course
The French Lick Golf Resort’s Pete Dye Course will be a par-72 this week measuring 7,667 yards. The finishing stretch includes the 220-yard par-3 16th, 465-yard par-4 17th, and 626-yard par-5 18th.
The venue hosted the 2015 KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship and the 2019 Senior LPGA Championship.
The Pete Dye Course at French Lick Resort in French Lick, Indiana, site of the 2019 Senior LPGA Championship (above) and 2015 KitchenAide Senior PGA Championship. (Beth Ann Nichols/Golfweek)
Which players can earn PGA Tour status for the rest of 2024?
Max McGreevy, Tim Widing, Taylor Dickson and Harry Higgs all have two wins in 2024 on the Korn Ferry Tour. A third would mean a Three-Victory Promotion, which is immediate access to the PGA Tour’s 2024 FedExCup Fall as well as fully exempt status on the PGA Tour in 2025.
There is no cut this week for the 75 players in the field, so everyone will have four rounds to accrue points for next season.
After 15 seasons of 25 players getting a promotion, this year it’s 30 getting their cards. When the Korn Ferry Tour started in 1990, only the top five players earned their cards.
Source: Golfweek https://ift.tt/YGSODKa