Web.com Tour Finals Rules Changed Mid-Season!

Rex Hoggard on a mid-season restructuring for the Web.com Tour Finals, the Q-School replacement that merely affects lives and decides futures. Well, until it's decided to be re-decided how it all works as the season is halfway done.

Now "the top 25 players from the regular season Web.com Tour money list will carry their money earned into the circuit’s four-event Finals," Hoggard writes, quoting a memo sent to players on May 29th.

Last year, season money, the justification for emphasizing a season instead of six rounds of Q-School, was tossed out and the slate wiped clean.

Best of all there's new jargon.

Under the new system, which was approved by the PGA Tour policy board in April, the 50 players who earn Tour cards at this year’s Finals will be ordered using a “zippered” method, with priority based on an alternating order between the top 25 regular-season money earners and the leading players form the Finals.

For example, after the leading money winner off the combined regular season and Finals money list, the second card will go to the player with the most combined earnings from the regular season and Finals, followed by the player who earned the most only in the Finals, and so on.