Web.com Tour Finals

The Web.com Tour Finals is a series of four golf tournaments that, beginning in 2013, replaced the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament as a means of earning PGA Tour membership for the following season ("Tour cards").

Prior to 2013, the main ways to earn a PGA Tour card, other than by winning a PGA Tour event or finishing in the top-125 on the PGA Tour money list, were to finish on the top-25 of the Web.com Tour money list or to finish in the top 25 of the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament. Fifty PGA Tour cards are available during the Finals.

The Finals are the final four tournaments of the Web.com Tour season. For 2013–15 they were:

In 2016, the DAP Championship replaced the Hotel Fitness Championship and the Albertsons Boise Open replaced the Small Business Connection Championship.

Each event has a purse of US$1,000,000 (the 2013 purses for other tournaments range from $550,000 to $800,000 with a median purse of $650,000). They feature a 36-hole cut of the top-60 and ties (standard Web.com Tour cut). The events are worth a minimum of 16 points for the Official World Golf Ranking, up from 14 points for regular season Web.com Tour events. The Web.com Tour Championship is worth a minimum of 20 points as the Tour's flagship event, as in the past.

There are four ways to qualify for the Finals:

In 2013, the top-25 on the regular season Web.com Tour money list were guaranteed PGA Tour cards regardless of their performance in the Finals and the Finals determine their priority ranking. Money earned in the four Finals events determined the remaining 25 PGA Tour cards. The leading money winners on the regular season Web.com Tour money list and the Finals money list were fully exempt on the PGA Tour; the remaining 48 players were ranked for PGA Tour priority purposes based on their Finals earnings. In addition, the money leaders in both the regular season and the Finals received places in the following year's Players Championship.

In 2014 the determination of the priority ranking changed. The top 25 from the regular season money list carried their earnings to the Finals, competing among themselves for priority. The top 25 earners in the Finals only, not including the top 25 from the regular season, again earned PGA Tour cards. The priority rankings were then determined be a "zipper method" with the top 25 in combined regular and Finals earnings taking rankings 1, 3, 5, ... and the top 25 from the Finals taking rankings 2, 4, 6, ...

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