International tour in China to offer players path to Web.com Tour and US PGA Tour

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SHANGHAI, China —The US PGA Tour, the world’s premier membership organisation for touring professional golfers, is once again partnering with the China Golf Association and is announcing it will operate PGA Tour-China in 2018.

The PGA Tour-China schedule will consist of a full schedule of tournaments and will begin in spring 2018, with each event offering a prize purse of at least 1.5 million RMB, up from 1.2 million RMB in 2016. 

As is the case with all three PGA Tour international developmental Tours, PGA Tour-China will provide players a path to the US PGA Tour through the Web.com Tour, with the top-five money-winners at season’s end earning 2019 Web.com Tour membership. 

In addition, there will be at least 15 additional players who will have access to the latter stages of the Web.com Tour Qualifying Tournament.