Understanding The PGA Tour

The PGA tour is golf’s biggest stage and is the go-to if you are trying to watch the best golfers in the world face off. This association was founded all the way back in 1929 and remains the worlds leader in mens golf.

What Does PGA Stand For?

PGA stand for professional golfers association. The PGA is the main organizer for the main professional golf tours for male golfers in North America.

How Does The PGA Tour Work?

The PGA tour works by organizing a number or golf tournaments throughout the year. These tournaments include the best golfers in the world and play using stroke play format.

This means each of the golfers will play individually and will add up their total strokes after playing four rounds on the tournament course.

Throughout the year players are awarded points based on how they place in the tournaments. At the end of the PGA season, a winner is named based on the total points accumulated over the year.

Throughout the year there are four major tournaments. These tournaments are far and away the largest tournaments of the year and have significantly larger purses than the other tournaments played throughout the year.

Which PGA Tournaments Are Majors?

Each year the PGA will host four tournaments that are considered majors. These four tournaments are The Masters, The U.S Open, The Open Championship (The British Open), The USPGA Championship.

The masters each played each year at Augusta National Golf Club while the other majors have a rotation of courses or choose a new course each year.

How do pga players get paid?

If you are a golfer in the PGA you are paid a percentage of the tournament purse based on which pace you finish. Though, only some of the golfers in a tournament will finish high enough

For example, in the U.S open golfers who finished 1-60 we paid a portion of the purse while any golfers that finished out of this range did not get paid.

If you finish first place you are likely to receive roughly 17% of the total purse. This means if you won the players championship in 2020 which has a purse of 15 million you would walk away with 2.55 million dollars.

There are also other ways for golfer to get paid. You will notice that every golfer on tour has a specific brand of golf clubs they use as well as, a specific set of clothing. This is because these are all sponsorships.

Golfers are paid to use the brands of big golf companies in order to promote their product to the viewers of the sport. And just like with purses the better golfer you are the more money you will get for your sponsorship.

How do pga points work?

PGA points or Fedexcup points are a season-long accumulation of points. These determine which golfer played the best over the course of the season.

Points are awarded to golfers that finish in the top 85 positions of any given PGA tournament. The higher your position the higher your points rewarded.

The number of points given out also varies in which tournament you play. For example, the masters would be worth more than a regular PGA tour event.

Near the end of the year there are several fed ex cup playoff tournaments. These include 125 of the top fedex cup point leaders. These tournaments are worth more points than any other tournament throughout the year.

How do PGA tournaments work?

PGA tournaments work by playing a four rounds over the course of four days with a stroke play scoring system.

Over the first two days all the golfers will play two rounds. Typically the top 70 golfers then continue on while the rest are cut from the tournament.

The top 70 golfers then play two more rounds of stroke play. Once all four rounds are down the golfer with the lowest amount of strokes over the four days is the winner.

Conclusion Understanding The PGA Tour

We hope this guide to understanding the PGA has been helpful in you finding the answers you need. Do you have any more questions regarding the PGA or anything else we covered in this article? If so please be sure to reach out in the comments below.

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