The PGA Tour on Wednesday introduced a fall schedule that can have seven tournaments for gamers to both retain full standing, earn a spot within the Masters or change into eligible for a few of the $20 million occasions the next season.

This would be the first time since 2013 the autumn will not be the beginning of a brand new season. The tour is returning to a calendar season that begins in January, a part of a shakeup that enables the highest gamers to compete towards one another extra usually.

Missing from the autumn schedule is the Houston Open, which is shifting to the spring in 2024, and the CJ Cup in South Korea.

The CJ Cup has been performed twice is Las Vegas and as soon as in South Carolina for the reason that COVID-19 pandemic. One risk is that it returns in 2024 as the brand new title sponsor of the Byron Nelson, as AT&T is ending its title sponsorship of the longtime Dallas-area occasion.

Only the highest 70 gamers — down from 125 — qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs this 12 months, with the highest 50 advancing to the second occasion. Those 50 gamers are eligible for all of the designated occasions in 2024 that supply the $20 million purses. The high 30 advance to the Tour Championship.

The FedEx Cup factors proceed into the seven-tournament fall schedule for gamers who end No. 51 and past. That permits them to both end within the high 125 to retain full tour standing or be among the many high 10 not already eligible who qualify for 2 $20 million occasions initially of the brand new season.

Winners of fall occasions, which supply a complete of $56.6 million prize cash, earn an invite to the Masters, PGA Championship, The Players Championship and the Sentry Tournament of Champions at Kapalua.

Four of the seven fall tournaments are within the U.S., although the schedule manages a geographical circulate.

The fall begins September 14-17 in Napa, California, with the Fortinet Championship earlier than taking a two-week break for the Ryder Cup in Italy.

Then it goes westward on October 5-8 from Mississippi to Las Vegas to Japan. After per week off, the tour heads east to the tip of Baja California in Mexico, then to Bermuda and ends with the RSM Classic at Sea Island alongside the Georgia coast on November 16-19.

The HSBC Champions in Shanghai is now not on the schedule.

It has been a World Golf Championships occasion since 2009 however has not been performed since 2019 due to the pandemic. That ends the WGCs; the Dell Match Play will not be a part of the 2024 schedule.