Korn Ferry Tour Finals

Beginning in 2025, the Finals have consisted of the following four tournaments:^[1]

Each event has an enhanced purse of US$1,500,000 and awards more points than the standard Korn Ferry Tour event. The first three events feature a standard tour cut rules, while the Tour Championship does not have a cut.^[1]

In 2023 and 2024, the first two years under the revised format, the Albertsons Boise Open was a Finals event, but was replaced by the Compliance Solutions Championship in 2025.^[2] In 2026, the Korn Ferry Tour Championship is moving from French Lick, Indiana to Glen Allen, Virginia and will be reduced from 75 players to 60.^[3]

In 2019, 2021 and 2022, under the original format, the Finals consisted of only three tournaments, as the Simmons Bank Open was not part of the series. In 2020, the Tour Finals series was not held as the Korn Ferry Tour revised its schedule into a combined 2020-21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[4] The three tournaments that would have been part of the Finals were contested as regular-season events.

Prior to 2019, the Finals had been a series of four tournaments from its inception in 2013.^[5] Three other tournaments were part of the Tour Finals for part of that period:

• DAP Championship in Beachwood, Ohio from 2016-2018^[6]
• Hotel Fitness Championship in Fort Wayne, Indiana from 2013-2015
• Small Business Connection Championship in Davidson, North Carolina from 2013-2015

The top 156 players in the Korn Ferry Tour points system through the end of the regular season qualify for the first Finals event. The number of participants is reduced each week of the Finals based on the season-long points ranking. In 2023, however, in the first three Finals events, players ranked below the cutoff were able to play if eligible players did not take part.^[1] This provision was dropped in 2024 and no alternate lists were used.^[7]

Under the format in place from 2013 to 2022, there were four ways to qualify for the Finals:^[8]

• Finish in the top-75 on the Korn Ferry Tour's regular season standings (money list from 2013 to 2018, points from 2019).
• Finish the PGA Tour's regular season ranked 126–200 on the FedEx Cup points list. Not all players with this criterion competed, as some were already exempt for the PGA Tour the next year through other means.
• As a non-member of the PGA Tour, earn enough FedEx Cup points to place 126–200 on the points list.
• Special medical exemptions.^[9]

Under the system introduced in 2023, the top 30 players on the Tour at the conclusion of the Finals earn a PGA Tour card. The points for the regular season and Finals are combined, with the Finals events worth more points than regular-season tournaments.^[1] The change in the qualifying rules for the Korn Ferry Tour were made in conjunction with new rules for the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, which awarded PGA Tour cards in 2023 for the first time in a decade.^[10] In 2025, the number of those earning Tour cards through the finals was reduced to twenty.

Under the previous format, the top 25 players in the Finals (originally based on earnings, later on points) earned PGA Tour cards. This was in addition to the cards earned by the top 25 players on the Korn Ferry Tour during the regular season.^[11]

Players who win their third event of the season during the finals are also fully exempt on the PGA Tour. The top 75 players, those who qualify for the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, are guaranteed no worse than full Korn Ferry Tour status for the next season. Those who finish 76th to 100th are conditionally exempt. Players ranked 21st to 50th are admitted entry into the Final Stage of Q School, those 51st-75th start at Second Stage, and those 76th to 100th begin at the First Stage.

One unintended consequence of the elimination of direct access to the PGA Tour through "Q school" was that more amateurs turned professional earlier in the year (June instead of August) in order to have a better chance at earning a PGA Tour card through high finishes via sponsors' exemptions.^[12]