The Korn Ferry Finals Start

I couldn't make up my mind. The D+D Real Czech Masters is going on in Europe this week, and the DICK'S Sporting Goods Open will keep the Champions Tour busy. But the Korn Ferry Tour Finals start this week, with players fighting for their PGA Tour cards. Guess which won out?



The Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship in Columbus OH is the first of three events in the Korn Ferry Finals. Robert Streb is the defending champion -- and unfortunately for him, he WILL be trying to defend, as he is in the field this week.

Rather than just copy-and-pasting the information, I'm going to link you to the pgatour.com pages that give you all the details on how the Korn Ferry Finals work. I'll just remind you here that 50 PGA Tour cards will be given out -- 25 last week at the WinCo Foods Portland Open, and an additional 25 through these finals.. All 50 compete in the Finals to determine their exact order of priority.

• This is the link to the FAQ page, which gives you all kinds of general information about the Finals.
• And this page explains exactly how the the cards are given out and ranked. You'll want to read this page to get a handle on the process that happens over the next three weeks.

GC will of course be carrying all three Finals events. The first round of the Nationwide starts Thursday at 11:30am ET. (No PGA TOUR LIVE streaming for this event.)

The Korn Ferry Finals are interesting for the struggle, but it's a different struggle than the one going on in the FedExCup Playoffs. It does help put things in perspective though, to have them both going on at the same time when the stakes are so much different.