An outstanding spin called PGA Tour University

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The PGA Tour has once again shown that it is one step ahead of the rest of the world circuits with the launch of the PGA Tour University. It is a new and revolutionary program that will guarantee you to have the best university students in the world in your circuits just at the moment of going professional. It's great for players who are about to take that crucial step in their lives and it's great for the PGA Tour. It will come into force from 2021.

The PGA Tour University is a reward system for the best college amateur players who are in their final year of college. This is a classification that will be governed by the world amateur ranking. Thus, once the first division NCAA Grand Final is over, the top five in this classification will immediately obtain the Korn Ferry Tour card. They will join the circuit from the end of May and will have the opportunity to earn the PGA Tour card in the next four months by finishing in the top 25 of the order of merit. They can also qualify for the Korn Ferry Tour Final Series and get one of the 25 extra cards given out there. If he didn't get the PGA Tour card in either of those two attempts, he would have direct access to the Korn Ferry Tour School Final, thus securing status for the following year. That is to say, in the worst case, they would have a circuit guaranteed for a year and a half.

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In this way, at the same time, the PGA Tour ensures that the top five college students of each year stay on their circuits. Until now, those players relied on invites from the PGA Tour and Korn Ferry to play in the months after college and needed a hit to get the card. If they didn't get it, which was the most common, they played it at the Korn Ferry School. If this route also failed, there were not a few who tried the European adventure through the School, either for the European Tour or the Challenge Tour. The PGA Tour University creates a more stable gateway to go from the world of amateur to professional. It generates more opportunities, although always under the criterion of merit. You have to earn it in college. It will undoubtedly be one more incentive for the last year players, and an extra pressure. Learning.

In addition, those who finish between positions 6 and 15 of that classification will be able to automatically access one of the three international circuits of the PGA Tour: Canada, China or Latin America. They will have the card of their choice from the day after the first division NCAA Final. In addition, they will be directly to the semifinals of the School of the Korn Ferry Tour.

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The requirements imposed by the PGA Tour to be part of this program are to complete four years at the university, in order to reward the player's comprehensive education. Furthermore, the only exception is those students who have only been there for three years, but have graduated. That is, they have served three years because they have studied more and have shortened the deadlines.

The ranking will be governed by the world amateur ranking and will count the last two years (104 weeks). The golfer will have to play a minimum of nine tournaments in his last year as an amateur and will have to complete four years of study at a first division university. In addition, he must play the NCAA Regionals in his last year.

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If this program had been in place when Jon Rahm finished college, he would have been the first pick to enter the Korn Ferry Tour. Of course, the real chosen one proved to be him when only with the invitations and in just one month he got the PGA Tour card by right.

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Players awarded by this new PGA Tour University system can request to stay as amateurs during the summer to compete in the Walker Cup and the World Amateur Golf Championships. In that case, they could play in the professional circuits as non-members and would become members once those amateur competitions were over.

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