Promotion and relegation in revamped 2028 PGA Tour

Currently, the top 10 finishers on the DP World Tour's Race to Dubai, who are not already playing in the US, gain PGA Tour cards for the following season. It is not certain whether this will continue. "It hasn't been decided," Rolapp said. "We've had a really successful relationship with the DP World Tour, inclusive of those cards." The tour boss, who will succeed Jay Monahan as PGA Tour commissioner next year, added: "That's one of the many things we're speaking about." Rolapp is promising to take the PGA Tour to new venues in the United States and said that 10 of 15 courses needed for the 2028 Championship Series, which will all have halfway cuts, have been identified. Using a uniform points system, the series will crown an individual champion before the usual end-of-season Tour Championship. That tournament will become matchplay and move to different locations rather than staying at its traditional home at East Lake in Atlanta. Although exact details have still to be established, 20 golfers on the lower Challenger Series will earn promotion to the higher tier at the end of a season. There will also be four to six "last chance" competitions in the autumn for those facing relegation to still preserve Championship status. And Championship players will not be allowed to compete in Challenger events in the same season. "We think for the integrity of what we're delivering to our tournament partners that it was important to do that," Rolapp said. …