PGA Tour's new 2024 schedule includes eight 'signature events' across 36 tournaments
- Michael Schmitt
- 8 August 2023
The signature events will feature limited fields and massive prize pools, complementing the four majors and the Players Championship.
The PGA Tour has lifted the lid on its 2024 schedule, and there are a few interesting additions to the regular format.
The regular season will include 36 tournaments from January through August, including four majors, the Players Championship and eight "signature" events, the tour announced Monday.
The signature events will feature limited fields battling it out for 20 million purses in addition to the four majors and Players Championship.
They include The Sentry, AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, RBC Heritage, Wells Fargo Championship, Memorial Tournament presented by Workday and the Travelers Championship.
In a dramatic change for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which replaces the Phoenix Open as a signature event in 2024, the field will only have 80 players, and will be contested only at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill. Additionally, the celebrities and amateurs will compete only on Thursday and Friday.
Marking a return to a calendar-based structure for the first time since 2012, the regular season starts with two tournaments in Hawaii in January: The Sentry and the Sony Open, and draws to a close with the Wyndham Championship, scheduled for August 8-11 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The FedEx Cup playoffs, meanwhile, retains its three-event format. Following the conclusion of the regular season, the top 70 players in the points standings will contest the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tennessee. Then, the top 50 contenders will vie in the BMW Championship at Castle Pines Golf Club in Castle Rock, Colorado, followed by the top 30 players moving on to the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.
"We are excited about the roll-out of the PGA Tour's reimagined schedule and what the season will offer to our fans: a January start with stars competing head-to-head more often, alongside the weekly drama of life-altering moments and the emergence of new stars," PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said in a statement.
"While winning on the PGA Tour continues to be the ultimate -- and most difficult -- challenge, we have further connected every tournament, with more at stake each week."
