The Korn Ferry Tour will hold a second event in the Jacksonville area in June, giving the tour a doubleheader to restart the season within a short drive of PGA Tour headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. It will do the same with San Antonio, Texas, later in the season.
The addition to the schedule was outlined in a memo to the Korn Ferry membership by president Alexandra Baldwin, which was obtained by the Florida Times-Union, part of the USA Today Network.
The King & Bear Classic will be June 18-21 at the second World Golf Hall of Fame course, designed by Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. It marks a return of professional golf to the course since the PGA Tour Champions held the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf there in 2001 and 2002.
SCHEDULE: Korn Ferry Tour 2020
The Korn Ferry Tour plans to restart its 2020 season June 11-14 with a yet-to-be-named tournament at the TPC Sawgrass Dye’s Valley Course. The Korn Ferry Tour Championship and before it the Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open were held at Dye’s Valley from 2010-2015.
Neither tournament will have fans in attendance and will not be televised. Both purses are expected to be $600,000, with $108,000 going to the winner.
The back-to-back events reflect the Korn Ferry Tour’s strategy through its first six events of holding two tournaments in close proximity to each other to minimize travel, maximize the ability to test players and caddies for the COVID-19 virus and reduce the chance for exposure.
Later, the Korn Ferry Tour will head west to play the Utah Championship in Farmington, Utah, June 25-28; then go less than 500 miles away to Berthoud, Colorado, for the TPC Colorado Championship on July 2-5.
The tour will then move to the TPC San Antonio in back-to-back weeks, playing at the Canyons Course July 9-12 and the Oaks Course July 16-19.
The Korn Ferry Tour is the primary path to PGA Tour membership, with the top-25 on the regular-season points list and the top-25 on the Korn Ferry Finals series earning PGA Tour cards for the next season.
There will not be a Korn Ferry Tour Q-School this year. However, there will be limited promotion from the secondary circuit. The top 10 players from the final Korn Ferry Tour points list following the conclusion of the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance the last week of August will be allowed to play in all of the PGA Tour’s additional tournaments such as opposite-field events for the 2020-21 season.
Additional information concerning the Korn Ferry Tour’s adjusted and extended season is expected to be announced May 4.
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