When will the next PGA Tour tournament be held after the Tour Championship?

The Tour Championship, and the PGA Tour season, officially ended on Sunday, September 1. After 36 events and the playoffs, the golf season on the biggest circuit in the world officially ended. Golf may not operate like other sports, but it has an offseason just the same. That offseason has now begun. When does it end and the next season start?

Of course, the offseason in golf has plenty of tournaments to play. This sport hardly takes a break, as there will be an officially sanctioned PGA event on September 12. The Procore Championship is next on the schedule. In early October, the Sanderson Farms Championship, another sanctioned event, will take place.

However, these events are not part of the season technically. The season is the FedEx Cup, which allows golfers to accumulate points and then advance through the two playoff weeks to win the Tour Championship. That's what Scottie Scheffler did.

The FedEx Cup officially begins again in January, which means the first event on the schedule in the new year will have FedEx Cup points awarded in it. That is the The Sentry, played every year in Hawaii. The Sony Open and American Express will follow it.

There are nine scheduled tournaments between the Tour Championship and The Sentry, though. Those don't count for the FedEx Cup, but they are as follows:

• Fortinet Championship: Sep 12–15, 2024
• Sanderson Farms Championship: Oct 3–6, 2024
• Black Desert Championship: Oct 10–13, 2024
• Shriners Children's Open: Oct 17–20, 2024
• Zozo Championship: Oct 24–27, 2024
• WWT Championship: Nov 7–10, 2024
• Butterfield Bermuda Championship: Nov 14–17, 2024
• RSM Classic: Nov 21–24, 2024
• Hero World Challenge: Dec 5–8, 2024

The Hero World Challenge wraps up golf in 2024, and it resumes again with the FedEx Cup season in January.

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How does the PGA Tour season work?

The PGA Tour season is a little bit confusing. The tour just had its championship, awarding Scottie Scheffler the trophy over Collin Morikawa and Sahith Theegala among others. Just two weeks later, another tournament is set to begin.

These events don't count for the regular season, i.e. the FedEx Cup. That is held from January to August, though the Tour Championship leaked into September. Events during that time frame have points available for those who play them.

Scottie Scheffler won the PGA Tour championship (Imagn)

The points accumulate across all events until the top 70 enter the playoffs. The FedEx St. Jude Championship is the first event. After that, the top 50 move on to the BMW Championship. The top 30 from there make it to the Tour Championship, with starting points staggered based on their overall rank.

For example, Scheffler was ranked first because of his PGA Tour season, and Hideki Matsuyama was able to leap into third place because of a win at the St. Jude Championship.