2024 Korn Ferry Tour Finals: How it works, what you need to know

It’s time for the four-event series that shapes the PGA TOUR’s future, the Korn Ferry Tour Finals.

The 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Finals brings the season-long race for 30 PGA TOUR cards to a dramatic close, as the top 30 on the season-long standings after the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance will earn 2025 PGA TOUR cards. The Korn Ferry Tour Finals also finalizes exempt and conditional Korn Ferry Tour status for next season, via the top-75 and top-100 thresholds respectively.

Points do not reset into the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, a change introduced in 2023. The race for PGA TOUR cards is purely cumulative across the season-long Korn Ferry Tour Points List from January through October. Eligibility for each event is determined by the season-long Points List into each event, with field reduction after each event (156, 144, 120, 75 players qualify).

"Only 30 guys get to fulfill their dream, and half of them will be without a job for the next year," said University of North Carolina alum Ryan Gerard, on the brink of a TOUR card as the Finals begin. "You've got to go out there and perform; otherwise you might not have a job."

For players who have clinched #TOURBound status into the Korn Ferry Tour Finals, the stakes remain high, as the No. 1 player on the season-long standings after the Korn Ferry Tour Championship will earn exempt 2025 TOUR membership and spots in the 2025 U.S. Open and THE PLAYERS Championship.

In another change from the pre-2023 Korn Ferry Tour Finals format, tournament field sizes are reduced as the series proceeds, a cadence that aligns with the FedExCup Playoffs. The top 156 on the season-long Korn Ferry Tour Points List qualify for the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron (Finals #1), with the top 144 after the Albertsons Boise Open qualifying for the Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation (Finals #2). The top 120 after the Simmons Bank Open will qualify for the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship (Finals #3), and the top 75 after the Nationwide will qualify for the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance (Finals #4).

Status and eligibility

Here are the critical cutoff points on the season-ending Korn Ferry Tour Points List that determine 2025 status and eligibility.

• Nos. 1-30 on the season-ending Korn Ferry Tour Points List will earn 2025 PGA TOUR membership.
• No. 1 on the season-ending Korn Ferry Tour Points List will earn fully exempt 2025 PGA TOUR status and gain access to the 2025 U.S. Open and THE PLAYERS Championship.
• Nos. 31-75 on the season-ending Korn Ferry Tour Points List will earn fully exempt 2025 Korn Ferry Tour membership, not subject to reshuffle.
• Nos. 76-100 on the season-ending Korn Ferry Tour Points List will earn conditional 2025 Korn Ferry Tour membership, subject to reshuffle.

2024 Korn Ferry Tour Finals schedule

What's new

• The 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Finals will feature two new courses. The Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation remains in the Nashville, Tennessee, area, moving from The Grove to Vanderbilt Legends Club's North Course. The Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance moves across southern Indiana from Victoria National Golf Club to French Lick Golf Resort's Pete Dye Course. (The Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron remains at Hillcrest Country Club, and the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship remains at the Ohio State University Golf Club's Scarlet Course.)
• In a change from 2023, the first three Finals events will not maintain alternate lists to fill the field to the corresponding size (156, 144, 120). Fields will play short if qualified players do not compete. The 75-player Korn Ferry Tour Championship didn’t have an alternate list in 2023 and will not in 2024.

Korn Ferry Tour Finals factoids

• Korn Ferry Tour points distribution is elevated for the Korn Ferry Tour Finals; tournament winners during the Finals receive 600 points, compared to 500 points for a standard event.
• Tournament purse size increases from $1 million (pre-Finals) to $1.5 million for Finals events.
• All four Korn Ferry Tour Finals events will be broadcast on Golf Channel.
• The first three Korn Ferry Tour Finals events feature a 36-hole cut to the top 65 professionals and ties, same as a pre-Finals event. There is no cut at the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance.
• Eligibility for the Albertsons Boise Open presented by Chevron (Finals #1) is determined by a season-long points race across 22 events, culminating at the Magnit Championship in August.
• Prior to 2023, the top 25 on the Korn Ferry Tour Regular Season Points List earned PGA TOUR cards, in addition to 25 cards via a Korn Ferry Tour Finals Points List comprised of Nos. 26-75 on the Korn Ferry Tour, Nos. 126-200 on the FedExCup, non-members and medical extensions. There is no longer a category for Korn Ferry Tour Finals access based on FedExCup positioning.