PGA Tour to implement new match play format for Tour Championship in 2028

Elite golfers will compete in a two-week match play competition to cap the PGA Tour Championship Series starting in 2028, officials announced Tuesday.

CEO Brian Rolapp spoke with reporters unpacking the major changes to the Tour Championship, doubling down on the PGA Tour's level of competition and optimism for what's ahead.

The PGA Tour is overhauling its season-ending Tour Championship beginning in 2028. Here's more on how the new two-week, match-play format will work.

The PGA Tour will shift to a 90-man field for a stroke-play event in 2028. The top 32 will then play in a two-week match-play event.

The PGA Tour is reshaping its postseason for 2028 by ending the year with a Tour Championship played over two weeks at different golf courses involving match play. PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp announced the changes Tuesday before the Tour Championship, which currently is 72 holes of stroke play for the top 30 players. Starting in 2028, the BMW Championship — the only postseason event that rotates is being held that year at Olympia Fields near Chicago — will be for the leading 90 players on the points list.

The new-look playoffs, which would begin in 2028, will be contested over three weeks at rotating venues with the final two weeks using a match-play format.

The new playoff structure, set to begin in 2028, will take place over the course of three weeks.

The Tour Championship will adopt a new match play format and rotating venues starting in 2028 for the PGA Tour.

The PGA Tour has completely rethought its postseason and regular-season finale with a format that it believes will entertain viewers and more substantially crown a champion

The PGA Tour has announced that the Tour Championship will be played in a two-week match play format as part of a new season-ending structure which will be implemented from the 2028 season.