2023 Fortinet Championship Full Field: PGA Tour Fall Season Begins

Players will look to improve their status for 2024 in a series of events which begin this week in Napa, Calif.

Author:
John Schwarb
Publish date:
Sep 10, 2023

If you have dearly missed PGA Tour golf since the FedEx Cup playoffs wrapped up last month, you're in luck.

With this week's Fortinet Championship in Napa, Calif., the Tour returns for a seven-tournament fall season that will end just before Thanksgiving.

The events serve a purpose for those finishing outside the top 50 from the FedEx Cup season that just ended. Points can still be accumulated and Nos. 51-60 at the end of the fall will be exempt into the first two signature events of 2024. And finishing inside the top 125 is still important for retaining Tour status. Of course there's also cold, hard cash: the Fortinet has a purse of $8.4 million with $1.512 million to the winner.

Max Homa plays his shot from the fourth tee during the third round of the 2023 Tour Championship. — Max Homa has won the last two Fortinet Championships.
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Players inside the top 50 are all set for next year and can skip the entire fall if desired, but many will still play to stay sharp and compete in favorite events. Californian Max Homa, No. 7 in the world and No. 11 in the SI World Golf Rankings, loves the Fortinet and will try for a three-peat this week.

The Tour will take another two-week break after this for the Ryder Cup, then resume the fall slate Oct. 5-8 at the Sanderson Farms Championship.