Ohio not only hosts the PGA Tour’s Memorial at Muirfield Village, the LPGA’s Marathon Classic in Toledo and the Symetra Tour’s Prasco Championship in Cincinnati, but it also hosts two Web.com Tour events that have a huge bearing on who earns PGA Tour cards for the following year.
At the end of the Web.com Tour’s regular season 25 players earn PGA Tour playing privileges for the next year. This year those will be announced at the regular season-ending event, the Winco Foods Portland Open, held, August 16-19. 
Once the regular season wraps up the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour money list, plus PGA Tour players, who finished No. 126-200 on the FedEx Cup Points list are invited to the Web.com Tour Final Series to compete for an additional 25 PGA Tour cards.
This four-event series creates a unique mixture of veteran tour professionals and predominantly younger Web.com Tour members, for an intense month of competition. Some will earn promotions, others will be happy to retain their PGA Tour slots for one more year.
The first two events in the Web.com Tour Final Series are played right here in Ohio.
The Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship will be held, August 23-26 at Ohio State University’s Scarlet Course. The following week the DAP Championship will host the same field at historic Canterbury Country Club in Cleveland. The third event in the series is the Albertson’s Boise Open and the final event, the Web.com Tour Championship is held at Atlantic Beach Country Club in Atlantic Beach, Florida.
Each of the final four tournaments offer a $1 million dollar purse, but more importantly, top ten finishes help a professional maintain a spot in the Top 25 to earn one of the precious PGA Tour exemptions. Winning one of these events is nice and will guarantee a spot on tour next year, but more importantly is assuring oneself a spot in the Top 25 after the Web.com Tour Championship in September.
The Scarlet Course at OSU, designed by Alister MacKenzie, is nationally recognized as one of the best collegiate golf courses in the country and annually proves to be one of the most difficult on the Web.com Tour.
Canterbury Country Club has a rich history in the game of golf. Henry Picard was the Head Golf Professional at the club for many years and the club has hosted 13 major championships.
Lawson Little and Lloyd Mangrum won U.S. Opens at Canterbury. Jack Nicklaus won the 1973 PGA Championship there and Arnold Palmer won consecutive Senior Tournament Players Championships in 1984 and 1985.
Two events in the Web.com Tour’s Final Series, being held in Ohio, is just one more example of the importance of the state to the game of golf.
