PGA Tour Q-Faculty to be hosted in 2023 at TPC Sawgrass and neighboring Sawgrass CC
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida – A lot of the PGA Tour’s schedule for subsequent season, together with the autumn portion of the schedule, are nonetheless in flux, however Golfweek has realized the location of the event PGA Tour execs shall be doing all the things of their energy to keep away from.
The Tour’s Q-Faculty, which can supply 5 playing cards to the large leagues for the primary time in additional than a decade, shall be held in mid-December and be hosted at Dye’s Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass and close by Sawgrass Nation Membership.
The latter was the house of the Gamers Championship from 1977-1981 till TPC Sawgrass, sister course to Dye’s Valley, grew to become the long-term dwelling of the Tour’s signature event in 1982. Sawgrass Nation Membership is a 27-hole format designed by Ed Seay and frequently hosts a collegiate event, the John Hayt Invitational, and likewise shall be acquainted to former contestants of the AJGA’s Junior Gamers, which hosted the favored junior invitational whereas TPC Sawgrass carried out a renovation in 2016.
Final 12 months, Korn Ferry Tour Q-Faculty was held at The Landings in Savannah, Georgia. For a number of years, the venue alternated between PGA West in Palm Desert, California, and Orange County Nationwide in Winter Backyard, Florida. The latter not too long ago was introduced as the location of a LIV Golf event forward of the Masters.
The PGA Tour hasn’t made an official announcement, however Golfweek obtained a letter from Sawgrass membership president Dan Cavey, dated Jan. 30, to the membership that detailed the way it will function one of many two programs for use.
It famous that, “The PGA Tour approached the Membership to be a accomplice in internet hosting the PGA Tour Qualifying Faculty or ‘Q Faculty.’”
The 18th gap at TPC Sawgrass Dye’s Valley through the remaining spherical of the 2015 Internet.com Tour Championship in Ponte Vedra Seashore, Florida. Photograph by Chris Condon/PGA Tour
It continued: “The PGA (Tour) is elevating Q-Faculty to be a featured televised event and may be very thinking about holding it in Ponte Vedra Seashore close to their headquarters. They need to construction it as a cut up subject with 85 gamers every day at our course and 85 on the Valley Course.”
In recent times, the highest 40 and ties at Q-Faculty earned full standing for the primary 12 occasions on the Korn Ferry Tour, the event circuit for the PGA Tour. However starting this 12 months, the highest 5 finishers and ties will earn PGA Tour standing for the next season, making a pathway for collegiate stars to go straight to the large leagues and bypass spending a 12 months on the Korn Ferry Tour. This marks the primary time since 2012 that Q-Faculty will present a direct path to the PGA Tour.
“I feel it’s a superb alternative for guys. I feel it’s one thing that you simply deserve. I imply, it’s fairly grueling to undergo Q-Faculty, particularly when you begin at first stage like I did,” mentioned reigning Masters champ and PGA Tour Participant of the 12 months Scottie Scheffler earlier this month. “It’s an extended few months.”
“I feel extra alternatives for guys to get out right here is healthier,” he mentioned. “Since you need to reward good golf wherever it’s. If it’s at Q-Faculty or on the Korn Ferry or PGA Tour Canada, Latin America, wherever it’s, you need to reward good golf.”
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