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Professional men's golf tour
The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either not yet reached the PGA Tour, or who have done so but then failed to win enough FedEx Cup points to stay at that level. Those who finish in the top 20 of the money list at year's end are given PGA Tour memberships for the next season. Since the 2019 season, the Korn Ferry Tour has been the primary pathway for those seeking to earn their PGA Tour card.
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The PGA Tour is an organizer of professional golf tours in North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also known as the PGA Tour, the PGA Tour Champions, the Korn Ferry Tour, and PGA Tour Americas. The PGA Tour is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb southeast of Jacksonville.
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Blades Brown is headed to the PGA Tour full-time in 2027 after becoming the youngest player to earn promotion from the Korn Ferry Tour.
Blades Brown on earning his PGA Tour card at 19 as the youngest Korn Ferry Tour graduate.
It’s too soon to know if their collective impact will be as significant as what the Jordan Spieth-Justin Thomas-Rickie Fowler group created, but there is a cadre of newcomers already stamping their imprint on the PGA Tour, shouldering their way into almost immediate relevance.