PGA Tour: Tour Championship to be played in a matchplay format from 2028 amid huge shake-up to season-ending schedule

The PGA Tour has announced that the Tour Championship will be played in a two-week matchplay format as part of a new season-ending structure which will be implemented from the 2028 season, with Rory McIlroy among those to welcome the move.

PGA Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp announced the plans on Tuesday ahead of this week's Tour Championship at East Lake in Atlanta.

"It's certainly different. But it's cool. I think they've taken a big swing, and conceptually, I think I really like it," McIlroy said at his pre-torunament press conference.

From 2028 onwards, the current series of FedExCup Playoffs, which are played in a stroke play format, will be replaced by:

It will be the first time in the PGA Tour's history that the Tour Championship has been decided over a match play format, and is also the first time that the format has been played on the tour since the 2023 WGC Dell Technologies Match Play.