The Forme Tour was a men's professional
golf
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tour played in the United States. The tour was created by the
PGA Tour
The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also k ...
in 2021 in response to
COVID-19 pandemic
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related restrictions on travel between the United States and Canada, in order to provide competition for non-Canadian
PGA Tour Canada
PGA Tour Canada, commonly referred to as the Canadian Tour, is a men's professional golf tour headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The United States based PGA Tour took over operation of the tour on November 1, 2012, at which time it was renamed PG ...
members, with entry also available through a series seven of
Q-School
In professional golf, the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S.-based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour. A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the ...
events. Eight tournaments were initially announced, to be held between June and September. The tournaments offered
Official World Golf Ranking
The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of professional golfers. It was started in 1986.
The rankings are based on a player's position in individual tournaments (i.e. not pairs or team events) over a "rolli ...
points, and the top five players on the points list at the end of the season gained
Korn Ferry Tour
The Korn Ferry Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either not yet reached the PGA Tour, or who have done so but then failed to win enough FedEx Cup points to stay at that level. Th ...
membership for the 2022 season.
The tour was sponsored by Forme, a clothing company.
A separate tour, the
2021 PGA Tour Canada, was run for Canadian-based professionals. This tour also consisted of eight events.
The schedule consisted of eight tournaments; four sets of back-to-back events played on successive weeks, finishing on either a Friday or a Saturday.
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 2021 season.
Points List
The Order of Merit was titled as the Points List and was based on prize money won during the season, calculated using a points-based system. The top five players on the tour earned status to play on the
2022 Korn Ferry Tour
The 2022 Korn Ferry Tour is the 32nd season of the top developmental tour for the PGA Tour in men's golf, and the third under the current sponsored name of Korn Ferry Tour.
Schedule
The table below shows the Korn Ferry Tour's 2022 schedule. The nu ...
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