PGA Tour Adds Match-Play Format to Season-Ending Playoffs
The new format replaces stroke play with a three-week playoff, and the top 32 golfers advance to a match-play bracket to decide the champion.
- On Tuesday, PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp announced a new season-ending structure starting in 2028, featuring a three-week postseason format that culminates in a match-play bracket to determine the Tour Champion.
- The three-week postseason begins with the PGA TOUR Championship Series Finale, a 72-hole stroke-play event featuring the top 90 golfers on the points list to determine the season-long winner and set the Tour Championship field.
- Following the finale, the top 32 players advance to the new-look Tour Championship, where they compete in eight groups of four before the top two from each pool enter a 16-man match-play bracket.
- Future Competition Committee chair Tiger Woods noted the goal is creating an "easier-to-follow competitive model for fans with greater consequence and a stronger season-long narrative" through the reimagined structure.
- The changes represent a shift from the current three-event stroke-play format, requiring the organization to negotiate new television contracts to accommodate the postseason structure before existing agreements with NBC and CBS expire in 2030.
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