Korn Ferry Tour Finals
The Korn Ferry Tour Finals is a series of four golf tournaments that conclude the season on the Korn Ferry Tour. The finals are contested in a playoff format, similar to the FedEx Cup playoffs on the PGA Tour, with players eliminated after each of the first three tournaments. At the end of the Finals, the top 20 players on the season-long points list earn PGA Tour membership for the following season.
From 2013 to 2022, the Finals were conducted in a very different format, as a separate entity from the tour's regular season. The top 75 players from the Korn Ferry Tour, along with players who failed to make the top 125 on the PGA Tour that same season, competed in a series of three or four tournaments. The top 25 players based on points earned in the Finals alone earned PGA Tour cards for the following season. The series was established as a replacement for the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament in 2013.
Tournaments
Beginning in 2025, the Finals have consisted of the following four tournaments:| Tournament | Location | Competitors |
| Simmons Bank Open | Franklin, Tennessee | 156 |
| Nationwide [Children's Hospital Championship] | Columbus, Ohio | 132 |
| Compliance Solutions Championship | Owasso, Oklahoma | 100 |
| Korn Ferry Tour Championship | Glen Allen, Virginia | 60 |
Each event has an enhanced purse of US$1,500,000 and awards more points than the standard Korn Ferry Tour event. The first three events feature a standard tour cut rules, while the Tour Championship does not have a cut.
In 2023 and 2024, the first two years under the revised format, the Albertsons Boise Open was a Finals event, but was replaced by the Compliance Solutions Championship in 2025. In 2026, the Korn Ferry Tour Championship is moving from French Lick, Indiana to Glen Allen, Virginia and will be reduced from 75 players to 60.
In 2019, 2021 and 2022, under the original format, the Finals consisted of only three tournaments, as the Simmons Bank Open was not part of the series. In 2020, the Tour Finals series was not held as the Korn Ferry Tour revised its schedule into a combined 2020-21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The three tournaments that would have been part of the Finals were contested as regular-season events.
Prior to 2019, the Finals had been a series of four tournaments from its inception in 2013. Three other tournaments were part of the Tour Finals for part of that period:
- DAP Championship in Beachwood, Ohio from 2016-2018
- Hotel Fitness Championship in Fort Wayne, Indiana from 2013-2015
- Small Business Connection Championship in Davidson, North Carolina from 2013-2015
Qualification
Under the format in place from 2013 to 2022, there were four ways to qualify for the Finals:
- Finish in the top-75 on the Korn Ferry Tour's regular season standings.
- Finish the PGA Tour's regular season ranked 126–200 on the FedEx Cup points list. Not all players with this criterion competed, as some were already exempt for the PGA Tour the next year through other means.
- As a non-member of the PGA Tour, earn enough FedEx Cup points to place 126–200 on the points list.
- Special medical exemptions.
Tour cards
Under the previous format, the top 25 players in the Finals earned PGA Tour cards. This was in addition to the cards earned by the top 25 players on the Korn Ferry Tour during the regular season.
Players who win their third event of the season during the finals are also fully exempt on the PGA Tour. The top 75 players, those who qualify for the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, are guaranteed no worse than full Korn Ferry Tour status for the next season. Those who finish 76th to 100th are conditionally exempt. Players ranked 21st to 50th are admitted entry into the Final Stage of Q School, those 51st-75th start at Second Stage, and those 76th to 100th begin at the First Stage.