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The PGA Tour will introduce a new season-ending model in 2028 as the culmination of its reimagined two-tier schedule, CEO Brian Rolapp announced last Tuesday.
It will begin with a 72-hole stroke-play event for the top 90 players on the Championship Series including the crowning of a season-long champion. From there, a two-week Tour Championship will be conducted with the top 32 players in the season-long points race advancing to begin match play. There will be eight groups of four players, who will compete against each other in match play with the top two from each group advancing to the final week.
In the finale, players will advance through the bracket based on their won-loss record with two undefeated players meeting in the championship match.
East Lake Golf Club, which has been the exclusive host of the Tour Championship since 2004, is among the courses under consideration as a future host, Rolapp said.
“We have received a tremendous level of interest from prospective host venues. As a result, multiple discussions are under way, site visits have begun, and we are encouraged by the enthusiasm we are seeing for the future of the Tour Championship,” Rolapp said, declining to name other potential sites. READ MORE
“I can’t say how much I lost, but I think I’m paying for his second son, all the diapers.”
Si Woo Kim, on his regular money matches with world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler at Royal Oaks Country Club in Dallas, the city where they both reside
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Captain Angela Stanford finalized the U.S. Solheim Cup team last Monday, announcing Rose Zhang, Megan Khang and Lindy Duncan as her at-large picks for next week’s match against Europe at Bernardus Golf in the Netherlands.
Zhang and Khang, both Solheim Cup veterans, and Duncan, who will be a rookie, will join automatic qualifiers Nelly Korda, Angel Yin, Jennifer Kupcho, Yealimi Noh, Auston Kim, Lauren Coughlin, Allisen Corpuz, Andrea Lee and Alison Lee on the squad. Of the qualifiers, only Kim will be a first-time competitor.
Questions remain regarding the status of Yin, who has been sidelined by illness for most of the last two months. Yin, who lost 35 pounds as a result of what she described as stomach and gastrointestinal issues, returned to competition at last week’s FM Championship near Boston, missing the cut with rounds of 81-76.
Should Yin be deemed unfit to play in the Netherlands, Stanford would need to use an alternate whose identity has not been disclosed. READ MORE
LIV Golf informed most of its employees last Wednesday that their jobs would be terminated in early September as funding from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund ceases following the conclusion of the league’s 2026 season.
The layoffs come in the wake of LIV’s July notice to employees in the United States and United Kingdom of potential impacts to its workforce. The league is optimistic that many employees could return under the “LIV 2.0” iteration it is working toward with new funding, but no decisions regarding future employment have been made, LIV said in a statement. READ MORE
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The Truist Championship will become part of the PGA Tour Championship Series in 2028, it was announced last Wednesday. The signature event at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, will join the Memorial Tournament, The Sentry at Torrey Pines, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Cadillac Championship, GO by Raymond James (formerly the Wyndham Championship), the Travelers Championship and a new tournament sponsored by Japanese insurer Sompo in the tour’s top-tier series. READ MORE
The PGA Tour on Wednesday released its 2027 schedule through the Tour Championship, featuring 36 tournaments including eight signature events. READ MORE
Golf Channel named 17-time PGA Tour winner Jim Furyk the lead analyst for its PGA Tour coverage, it announced Wednesday. Furyk, the 2027 U.S. Ryder Cup captain, will call the men’s major championships, signature events and, starting in 2028, PGA Tour Championship Series tournaments. He served last week as Golf Channel’s lead analyst for the Tour Championship. READ MORE
The LPGA will stage a 2027 tournament in Hong Kong, it announced Wednesday. The Futu Ladies World Championship presented by Moomoo is slated for March 4-7 at Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club and will offer a $3.4 million purse. READ MORE
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour are working on plans for a global series of fall and winter events that could debut as early as 2028, The Telegraph reported last Monday. The series would include up to nine stops in England, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Continental Europe, as well as Australia, South Africa and the Far East, the report said. READ MORE
Five-time major champion Brooks Koepka is set to join Motor City Golf Club as part of indoor simulator league TGL’s expansion for the 2027 season, league officials announced Wednesday. READ MORE
The PGA Tour and the LeBron James Family Foundation have entered a partnership through which a series of integrated initiatives centered around the inaugural LeBron James Family Foundation Invitational at Firestone Country Club next July will combine professional golf with youth engagement and fundraising to create community impact in the NBA superstar’s hometown of Akron, Ohio, the parties announced Tuesday. READ MORE
The PGA Tour suspended PGA Tour Champions competitor Matt Gogel for six months for violating its integrity policy, it announced last Wednesday. Gogel placed bets on PGA Tour competition but did not bet on tournaments in which he was a participant, the tour said in a statement. READ MORE
Compiled by Mike Cullity
