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Web.com Tour Championship Heads to TPC Sawgrass With PGA Tour Cards on the Line

By Ryan Young

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The Web.com Tour Championship heads to TPC Sawgrass (Dye’s Valley Course) this week for the fourth and final event of the Web.com Finals series.  At the conclusion of the tournament on Sunday, 25 players will be awarded a coveted PGA Tour card for the 2015-2016 season.

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The Web.com Tour Finals series is a four-event series featuring the top 75 on the Web.com Tour regular season money list and the 126th to 200th ranked players on the FedEx Cup standings.  These 150 players have been battling it out to earn 50 spots on the PGA Tour for next year.

The top 25 from the Web.com Tour regular season money list have already earned their cards.  The remaining PGA Tour cards will come from the top 25 on Finals series money list, meaning their is quite a bit on the the line this week in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.  To throw another kink in the format, the 50 players who earn PGA Tour cards will also be competing for priority rankings in order to get into the very best tournaments on the PGA Tour.

Two players will end up with full exemption on the PGA Tour, including entry into the 2016 PLAYERS Championship.  Patton Kizzire currently leads the overall money list and looks to be in good shape to win the cumulative money title.  The second player to earn a full exemption will come from the winner of the Finals series money list.

Chez Reavie, Henrik Norlander and Andrew Loupe are No. 1-3 on the Finals money list, thanks to a win in one the first three events of the Finals series.  Henrik Norlander fired a final round 62 to win the Hotel Fitness Championship three weeks ago in Indiana.  Chez Reavie followed up with a win at the Small Business Connection Championship in North Carolina and Andrew Loupe outlasted the field at the difficult Scarlet Course at Ohio State last weekend in the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship.

These three players are firmly inside the top 25 and have already punched their tickets to playing on the PGA Tour next season.  Several others have also cemented their PGA Tour cards with top 10 finishes in the one of the first three events and could make a big jump up the money list with a win in Florida this weekend.  Sam Saunders, Ricky Barnes and Kyle Stanley are just some of the names who have earned enough money to be playing next year on the PGA Tour.

It’s the players on the proverbial “bubble” that have some work to do if they want to earn PGA Tour cards for 2015-2016.  Jhonattan Vegas currently holds the 25th spot in the Finals money list with $28,871.42 earned from the first three events.  In 2013, the inaugural year of this qualfying format, $33,650 was enough to get inside the top 25.  Last year, Eric Axley got in on the number at $36,311.  It’s hard to predict what the magic number will be for this year but you can likely expect that number to inch closer to $40,000.

Other players like Eric Axley ($32,105), Brian Davis ($29,976.66) and Justin Hicks ($29,300) are all inside the top 25 heading into TPC Sawgrass and will likely need a top-20 finish to stay inside the top 25.

You can see live coverage of the Web.com Tour Championship on Golf Channel from 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST Thursday – Sunday.

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