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Now that we've come to the end of the road, the 26th and final event of the Korn Ferry Tour season will determine the 50 players advancing to the 2022-23 PGA TOUR campaign.
The Finals 25 cards will be earned and exemptions are still alive. The No. 1 player from the Finals Eligibility Points List will be fully exempt for 2022-23 and will receive an invitation to THE PLAYERS in March of next year.
The No. 1 player from The 25 (Regular Season plus Finals) will receive all of the benefits listed above PLUS a spot in the 2023 U.S. Open.
Priority Ranking for next season is also on the line.
There will be no playoff.
The first 36 holes will determine who is alive for the weekend.
The final 36 holes will set the rankings for next season, change lives or crush dreams.
Defending champion Joseph Bramlett returns to lead the field of 142. He posted 20-under 268 last year to cruise home by four shots. Past event champions on this course entered this week include Jose de Jesus Rodriguez (2018) and Ben Martin (2013).
The Finals brings an elevated prize purse of $1 million, with the winner enjoying $180,000 plus 1,000 Korn Ferry Tour points, and none of that changes this week.
The Finals final is the third event after stops in Boise and Columbus, Ohio. As was the case with the previous two stops, Victoria National will provide a proven test as host of the Korn Ferry Tour Championship.
Tom Fazio designed the layout in 1998 and it will be hosting for the 11th consecutive year. The par-72 plays to 7,265 yards since the 2020 edition and this will be the fourth consecutive season the course will be used to determine PGA TOUR status moving forward.
A Korn Ferry Tour stop since 2012 as the United Leasing and Finance Championship, the event record was just 12-under set by Seamus Power in 2016. Played in April or May, the blustery conditions would present a massive challenge to the field. The first five events produced an average winning score of around 10-under par.
The final two regular season events crowned champions at 6-under par!
The evolution to hosting the Korn Ferry Tour Championship came with a late-summer date, but the scoring as a whole hasn't entirely gone upside down.
Tom Lewis set the course tournament record in 2019 when he posted 23-under 265 and circled 29 birdies, five more than any other player. Not bad for his first Korn Ferry Tour event! The group at T4 were 13-under, in the neighborhood of the average winning score to date. As with any great course, fantastic play will get rewarded.
The 2020 edition saw the top 23 post 10-under or better with only two rounds of 73 littering those players.
Last season, Bramlett posted 20-under to win by four and the top 14 hit double figures.
There's no question having a deeper field for the Korn Ferry Tour Championship has helped scoring. I'll argue the warmth of summer had the same impact.
With four par-5 holes, scoring chances increase especially if the wind doesn't blow. Fazio's above-average greens sizes give plenty of chances for recovery shots that miss generous fairways. The perfect L-93 on the surfaces again this week will have putts tracking online and that also helps scoring. Water is everywhere and so are nerves on the biggest Korn Ferry Tour stage.
Summertime weather greets the final field of the season as temperatures will hover around 90 most of the Labor Day weekend. It appears Mother Nature is on holiday as well as the best chance for rain is less than 20 percent all four tournament days and the wind won't blow more than 10 mph. Absolutely perfect conditions to determine a champion plus The Finals 25!
No. 13 - Scott Gutschewski - MC No. 12 - Kevin Roy - T14 No. 11 - Ben Martin - T28 after Round 2 63 No. 10 - Sam Stevens - T28 closed with 66 No. 9 - Vincent Norrman - MC No. 8 - Nicholas Lindheim - MC No. 7 - Thomas Detry - MC No. 6 - Justin Suh - T9 No. 5- Michael Kim - T34 No. 4 - Will Gordon - T46 No. 3 - MJ Daffue - T53 No. 2 - Taylor Montgomery - T9 No. 1 - Dean Burmester - T46
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