Season finales, awards and possibly Tiger and Charlie Woods: What stays over closing two months in golf 2024

With two months to go within the 2024 golf world, and following a moderately stagnant October, there’s loads to concentrate to down the stretch.

PGA Tour

Three occasions stay within the FedExCup Fall collection for gamers to earn their PGA Tour playing cards for the 2025 season. Along with the race for the highest 125 in FEC factors, Nos. 51-60 will earn signature-event begins at subsequent yr’s AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am and the Genesis Invitational.

LPGA

Following a month in Asia, the LPGA returns to the U.S. for a closing three-week stretch, with one match in Hawaii (starting this Wednesday) and two in Florida.

The highest 80 on the season-long factors record earn full playing cards for subsequent yr whereas the highest 60 will qualify for the season finale, the CME Group Tour Championship, the place the winner will accumulate a tour-record $4 million prize.

DP World Tour

The Race to Dubai concludes with two playoff occasions in Abu Dhabi and, in fact, Dubai. The opening subject options the likes of Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Robert MacIntyre, Rasmus Hojgaard, Adam Scott, Shane Lowry and Tyrrell Hatton.

With the highest 50 within the RTD standings qualifying for the season-ender, the aforementioned are locked in, in addition to BMW PGA Championship winner Billy Horschel.

Awards

Scottie Scheffler’s {hardware} haul goes to get heavier as he’ll doubtless sweep the Jack Nicklaus Award (participant of the yr, through membership vote), Byron Nelson Award (lowest adjusted scoring common) and Arnold Palmer Award (most official cash earned). The rookie of the yr isn’t as clear-cut, with three candidates (Matthieu Pavon, Nick Dunlap and Jake Knapp) having received this season.

On the LPGA aspect, Nelly Korda has wrapped up the points-based player-of-the-year award. Jeeno Thitikul, who received the Vare Trophy final yr, is in place to do it once more. She at the moment tops the scoring-average standings with Ayaka Furue and Haeran Ryu needing scorching finishes to surpass her. Korda is definitely second on the record however received’t meet the minimal variety of rounds performed to qualify.

Korda is, nevertheless, the front-runner on the cash record, with a close to $900,000 benefit, however that may all change with the huge Tour Championship payout. She is scheduled to compete within the closing two Florida tournaments.

There may be additionally $1 million on the road for the Aon Danger Reward Problem, which Thitikul additionally leads over Ryu. Mao Saigo leads Jin Hee Im within the battle for points-based Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the 12 months.

Different Occasions

Some are official and a few in any other case, however all promise to be entertaining.

The PGA Tour Champions will wrap their marketing campaign with the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, whereas gamers will look to earn 2025 playing cards in final-stage Q-Faculties for the Champions, LPGA and PGA Tour.

Will we see Tiger Woods, who underwent one other again process two months in the past, in December? It may occur twice, or by no means, together with his Hero World Problem and the PNC Championship, which he’s historically performed with son Charlie.