How the 2024 PGA Tour schedule will look and function

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As the PGA Tour gets ready to officially announce its new-look 2024 schedule next week, all but five of the Tour’s biggest tournaments, in a slight change of course, will feature cuts.

The news was first reported by Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch and confirmed to GolfChannel.com by a source with knowledge of the 2024 PGA Tour schedule that will be unveiled on Tuesday at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first playoff event. The Tour told Golfweek that it would not offer comment until its official announcement.

As part of the new schedule, there will be 16 of what will now be called, as Golf.com’s Sean Zak first noted, signature events – formerly called elevated and then designated – this upcoming season: the four major championships, The Players, three FedExCup playoff events, The Sentry, AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, RBC Heritage, Wells Fargo Championship, Memorial Tournament and Travelers Championship. Except for the Maui event formerly known as the Tournament of Champions, Pebble and Genesis (the non-signature WM Phoenix Open bisects the latter two), they will be paired and staggered on the calendar and separated by at least two consecutive non-signature events, which GolfChannel.com’s Rex Hoggard reported in May.

The Tour had already revealed that these events would feature smaller fields (70 to 80 players in most cases, excluding the majors, Players and Sentry), plus larger purses and FedExCup payouts, and no cuts. However, that last part was unpopular with a portion of the Tour’s tournament hosts and membership, including Tiger Woods, who said during the Masters, “There’s still some ongoing discussions about some of the designated events and whether or not we’re going to have cuts going forward. I certainly am pushing for my event [the Genesis Invitational] to have a cut.”

The Tour’s chief tournaments and competitions officer, Andy Pazder, told Hoggard in June, “We’ve announced that they would be no-cut events but that’s something that if there’s support for a change there, could be that it’s some of the designated events, all of the designated events or none of the designated events [have a cut], we’ll have a conversation around that.”

GolfChannel.com has confirmed Golfweek’s initial report that cuts will be part of all but five of the signature tournaments. The events that won’t have cuts will be The Sentry, Pebble, Heritage, Wells Fargo and Travelers. For the non-major, non-playoff and non-Players events with cuts – Genesis, API and Memorial – the cut will be the top 50 and ties or, as one source said, the 10-shot rule.

Here is a look at the 2024 schedule, including the fall events:

Jan. 4-7 – The Sentry, Kapalua, Hawaii
Jan. 11-14 – Sony Open in Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
Jan. 18-21 – The American Express, La Quinta, Calif.
Jan. 25-28 – Farmers Insurance Open, La Jolla, Calif.
Feb. 1-4 – AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Pebble Beach, Calif.
Feb. 8-11 – WM Phoenix Open, Scottsdale, Ariz.
Feb. 15-18 – The Genesis Invitational, Pacific Palisades, Calif.
Feb. 22-25 – Mexico Open at Vidanta, Vallarta, Mexico
Feb. 28-March 3 – Palm Beach Classic, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
March 7-10 – Arnold Palmer Invitational, Orlando, Fla.
March 7-10 – Puerto Rico Open, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
March 14-17 – The Players, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
March 21-24 – Valspar Championship, Palm Harbor, Fla.
March 28-31 – Texas Children’s Hospital Open, Houston, Texas
April 4-7 – Valero Texas Open, San Antonio, Texas
April 11-14 – Masters Tournament, Augusta, Ga.
April 18-21 – RBC Heritage, Hilton Head Island, S.C.
April 18-21 – Corales Puntacana Championship, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
April 25-28 – Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Avondale, La.
May 2-5 – CJ Cup Honoring Byron Nelson, Dallas, Texas
May 9-12 – Wells Fargo Championship, Charlotte, N.C.
May 9-12 – Myrtle Beach Classic, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
May 16-19 – PGA Championship, Louisville, Ky.
May 23-26 – Charles Schwab Challenge, Fort Worth, Texas
May 30-June 2 – RBC Canadian Open, Canada
June 6-9 – Memorial Tournament, Dublin, Ohio
June 13-16 – U.S. Open, Pinehurst, N.C.
June 20-23 – Travelers Championship, Cromwell, Conn.
June 27-30 – Rocket Mortgage Classic, Detroit, Mich.
July 4-7 – John Deere Classic, Silvis, Ill.
July 11-14 – Genesis Scottish Open, North Berwick, Scotland
July 11-14 – Event, TBD
July 18-21 – The Open, Troon, Scotland
July 18-21 – Barracuda Championship, Reno, Nev.
July 25-28 – 3M Open, Blaine, Minn.
Aug. 1-4 – Men’s Olympic Golf, Paris, France
Aug. 8-11 – Wyndham Championship, Greensboro, N.C.
Aug. 15-18 – FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Memphis, Tenn.
Aug. 22-25 – BMW Championship, Castle Rock, Colo.
Aug. 29-Sept. 1 – Tour Championship, Atlanta, Ga.

Fall schedule:

Sept. 12-15 – Fortinet Championship
Sept. 19-22 – Sanderson Farms Championship
Sept. 26-29 – Presidents Cup (Royal Montreal)
Oct. 3-6 – Black Desert Championship
Oct. 17-20 – Shriners Children’s Open
Oct. 23-26 – Zozo Championship
Nov. 7-10 – World Wide Technology Championship
Nov. 14-17 – Butterfield Bermuda Championship
Nov. 21-24 – The RSM Classic
Dec. 5-8 – Hero World Challenge
Dec. 13-15 – Grant Thornton Invitational
Dec. 21-22 – PNC Championship

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