The Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance is the year-end
golf tournament of the
Korn Ferry Tour. It has been played at a variety of courses; starting in 2019 it will be played at
Victoria National Golf Club in
Newburgh, Indiana
Newburgh is a borough in Ohio Township, Warrick County, Indiana, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 3,325 at the 2010 census, although the town is part of the larger Evansville metropolitan area which recorded a population of ...
as part of a 10-year deal. Since the 2008 edition, the purse has been $1,000,000, with the winner receiving $180,000.
The format of the tournament is
stroke play
Stroke play, also known as medal play, is a scoring system in the sport of golf in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes. In stroke play, the winner is the player who has taken the fewest strokes over the ...
at 18 holes for four days, a total of 72 holes. Originally, the field consisted of the top 60 players on the money list, all attempting to be among the 25 to earn
PGA Tour cards. Since 2013, it has been part of the
Korn Ferry Tour Finals and the field consists of the top 75 players from the Korn Ferry Tour money list and the non-exempt players ranked 126 to 200 on the PGA Tour's money list at the start of the Finals. Beginning in 2013, 50 PGA Tour cards will be awarded after the event.
It is considered the flagship event of the Korn Ferry Tour, with twenty
OWGR points to the winner, compared to sixteen for other Finals events and fourteen for regular season tournaments.
Tournament host courses
Winners
Bolded golfers graduated to the PGA Tour via the Korn Ferry Tour regular-season money list, in years that the event was not part of the Korn Ferry Tour Finals. In years that the event has been part of the Finals, all winners and runners-up have earned PGA Tour cards.
Sources:
''Note: Green highlight indicates scoring records.''
Notes
References
External links
Coverage on Korn Ferry Tour's official site
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Korn Ferry Tour events
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1993 establishments in Oregon
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