The PGA Tour’s 2024 year ended with the RSM Classic. The LPGA ended the same day at the CME Group Tour Championship. The week prior, the DP World Tour put a cap on things for the year. The week before that, the PGA Tour Champions closed the books on 2024.
So now what?
Well, the silly season starts in the Bahamas. There are two more Q Schools (the LPGA already did one) and there’s another Match. There’s also Year 2 of a cool mixed event.
Here’s a closer look at what golf fans look forward to over the final five weeks of 2024.
PGA Tour Champions Q School – Dec. 3-6
The final stage of PGA Tour Champions Q School will be at the Champions course at TPC Scottsdale from Dec. 3 to Dec. 6.
There are 86 golfers in the four-day, 72-hole event after they either earned their way through one of the three First Stages or were exempt into the Final Stage.
Among the notables in the field:
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Angel Cabrera
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J.J. Henry
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Scott Parel
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Dicky Pride
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Ted Purdy
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Omar Uresti
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Bo Van Pelt
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Boo Weekley
The top five finishers will earn their 2025 tour card.
Hero World Challenge – Dec. 5-8
Tiger’s annual silly season bash in the Bahamas is the first weekend of December.
The field of 20 players will take on the Albany Golf Course for a four-day, 72-hole stroke play event. The silly season money is real, with $1 million going to the winner.
Grant Thornton Invitational – Dec. 12-15
This mixed-team event returns for a second year to Tiburon Golf Club in Naples, Florida.
The field is 16 teams made up of a PGA Tour player and an LPGA player. Jason Day and Lydia Ko won the inaugural event in 2023.
There’s a $4 million purse with each member of the winning team taking home $500,000.
PGA Tour Q School final stage – Dec. 12-15
While several tour pros are enjoying a mostly relaxed week in Florida, there are a bunch of other guys grinding it out at the final stage of Q School in hopes of earning a PGA Tour card for 2025.
The competition will be held on the Dye’s Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass as well as Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
Who gets a 2025 tour card? Only the top five and ties. All other finishers at Final Stage received some sort of playing status on the Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour Americas based on how they finish.
This final stage will be preceded on Dec. 3-6 by four Second Stage events:
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Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail – Highland/Marshwood, Dothan, Alabama
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Valencia (California) Country Club
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Hammock Beach Conservatory, Palm Coast, Florida
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Kinderlou Forest Golf Club, Valdosta, Georgia
The Match – Dec. 17
Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler will take on Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in a made-for-TV match in Las Vegas and live on TNT.
This PGA Tour vs. LIV Golf event should be fun. It’ll be the 11th rendition of the event.
The Vegas match features a lineup of stars who share layered rivalries. McIlroy and Koepka were tied at four major victories each until Koepka won a fifth at the 2023 PGA Championship, while DeChambeau narrowly edged McIlroy in a heartbreaking finish to the U.S. Open at Pinehurst in June.
Shadow Creek will be the host venue. Four previous Matches were held in Las Vegas, three at Wynn Golf Club and one at Shadow Creek, which hosted the very first Match, Tiger Woods against Phil Mickelson.
PNC Championship – Dec. 21-22
The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando will host what has become a popular event, so much so that many tour pros can’t get into the 20-team field. Each team consists of a tour pro with a major championship victory or a win in The Players as well as a family member who must not have professional experience.
When the final putt drops on Sunday, Dec. 22 at the Ritz, that will officially mark the final stroke in 2024 in professional golf.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: So now what? Here’s what’s left in pro golf in 2024, including the Hero, Grant Thornton, PNC
