PGA Tour’s 2028 shake-up: two series, promotion-relegation, match play finale
The PGA Tour’s radical 2028 overhaul splits the season into two tiers, adds promotion-relegation, and ends with a winner-take-all match-play showdown at East Lake.
The PGA Tour will scrap its familiar calendar in 2028 and install a two-tier system that forces players to fight for their status every week. The Tour splits the season into two distinct series—Series A and Series B—with the bottom seven finishers in Series A automatically relegated to Series B, while the top two from Series B earn promotion back to Series A. Every regular event now counts toward a cumulative points race; only the top 30 after the BMW Championship advance to the Tour Championship, which will be a straight-single-elimination match-play bracket.
