How the 2013 PGA Tour Fall Series Will Impact the Masters

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Published: October 8, 2012

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By now we all know that the 2014 PGA Tour schedule will look vastly different from the schedule we have grown accustomed to over the past 50 years.

Q-School will be gone, replaced by a four tournament series containing the top-75 players from the Web.com Tour and numbers 126-200 on the PGA Tour’s money list. The top-50 finishers from this four tournament series will earn their 2014 Tour cards.

Then, taking a page out of the European Tour’s book, the 2014 PGA Tour season will actually begin in late 2013 immediately following the Tour Championship and Presidents Cup. The Fall Series will no longer be four tournaments all but reserved for those attempting to play their way into the top-125 on the money list. The Fall Series as we know it will essentially cease to exist after this season.

Ok, it's a bit of an extreme change to appease current sponsors' demands while appealing to potentially new sponsors, but this is old news; we have been hearing about these changes for a couple of years now.

However, one aspect of the PGA Tour scheduling change that no one seems to be paying much attention to is its potential effect on the 2014 Masters.  

Currently, the Masters offers invitations to winners of all PGA Tour events other than those played opposite the majors and WGCs and the Fall Series events, which currently do not carry any FedEx Cup Points. But that might all change in 2014, as the “Fall Series” will now be the true start of the 2014 PGA Tour season and each tournament will carry full FedEx Cup points.

In terms of the FedEx Cup point standings, these tournaments played in late 2013 will be just as valuable as tournaments such as The Memorial, the Arnold Palmer Invitations, The Wells Fargo Championship, etc. which will mean that Augusta National will have a very difficult time trying to justify why they would offer invitations to the winners of some PGA Tour events but...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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