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The newly-branded PGA Tour Americas will stage
16 events across Latin America, Canada and the United States
from February through September with 15 cards up for grabs on
the developmental Korn Ferry Tour.
"We are thrilled about PGA Tour Americas and the role this tour
will play in preparing players for the next step in their
professional golf journey," Alex Baldwin, who oversees PGA Tour
Americas, the Korn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour Q-School and PGA Tour
University, said in a news release.
"PGA Tour Americas will be an extremely competitive tour aimed
at identifying, developing and transitioning top-performing
players to the next level as they ascend through the ranks and
strive to reach the highest level of professional golf, the PGA
Tour."
The first half of the season will be the Latin America Swing and
include the top 60 finishers from both the 2022-2023 PGA Tour
Latinoamerica points list and the 2023 PGA Tour Canada points
list.
The top 60 players from the Latin America Swing move on to
compete in the North America Swing from June through September
with the top 10 on the season-long points list earning Korn
Ferry Tour membership.
Five conditional Korn Ferry Tour cards are available to the top
two finishers in the Latin America Swing and top three from the
North America Swing in the case that they do not finish in the
top 10 on the final PGA Tour Americas points list.
The schedule for the inaugural season will be announced in
September with details regarding purses and points distribution
to be released closer to the start of play in February.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Ken Ferris)
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