LocaliQ Series

The LocaliQ Series, stylized as the LOCALiQ Series, was a one-off professional golf tour played in 2020 and organised by the PGA Tour.

The series was announced following the cancellation of much of the PGA Tour's global development tours due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1][2] The tour is aimed at players who would have qualified to play on PGA Tour Canada, PGA Tour Latinoamérica and PGA Tour China in 2020,^[3] with places also available to players on the second-tier Korn Ferry Tour and sponsor invites.^[4]

The seven regular tournaments on the circuit were contested over 54 holes of stroke play with 144 competitors, a cut line of 55 plus ties, and a minimum prize fund of $100,000.^[2] The series finale was a limited-field event over 72 holes. The winner and the two leaders in the overall series points standings were awarded sponsor exemptions into a tournament on the PGA Tour in 2021.^[3][5] The series was awarded Official World Golf Ranking status, with four points for winners of 54-hole events and six for the 72-hole championship.

finished top of the LocaliQ Series points standings after winning both of the first two tournaments and finishing as runner-up in the fourth; his prize was an invite to initially the RBC Canadian Open, but that was eliminated because of border restrictions; he was allowed entry into the Palmetto Championship, the one-off replacement event that replaced the RBC Canadian Open. won the Series Championship, the circuits final event, to move into second place in the standings and was rewarded with an invite to the 2021 Barbasol Championship. As a result, , who finished third in the standings, received the third PGA Tour invite, to the 2021 Puerto Rico Open.^[6][7]

The one-off tour resulted in the development of a United States-based third-tier tour, the Forme Tour, in 2021.

Schedule[]

Dates	Tournament[8][9]	Location	Winner	OWGR points	Purse (US$)	Winner's share ($)
Aug 5–7	Alpharetta Classic	Golf Club of Georgia, Alpharetta, Georgia		4	100,000	16,000
Aug 11–13	The Championship at Echelon Golf Club	Echelon Golf Club, Alpharetta, Georgia		4	100,000	16,000
Aug 26–28	The Classic at Callaway Gardens	Callaway Gardens Resort, Pine Mountain, Georgia		4	100,000	16,000
Sep 1–3	The Invitational at Auburn University Club	Auburn University Club, Auburn, Alabama		4	100,000	16,000
Sep 23–25	Jacksonville Championship	Hidden Hills Golf Club, Jacksonville, Florida		4	100,000	16,000
Sep 30 – Oct 2	The Challenge at Harbor Hills	Harbor Hills Country Club, Lady Lake, Florida		4	100,000	16,000
Oct 7–9	Classic at the Club at Weston Hills	The Club at Weston Hills, Weston, Florida		4	125,000	20,000
Nov 17–20	LOCALiQ Series Championship	TPC Sugarloaf, Duluth, Georgia		6	150,000	24,000

Race to The Bahamas standings[]

With the final event being originally scheduled in The Bahamas, the Local iQ Series points competition was titled as the "Race to The Bahamas", with a tournament win being worth 500 points. The event ultimately was moved to Duluth, Georgia.^[10]

Place	Player	Event								Total points[11][7]	Tmts
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1		1st 500	1st 500	T14 56	2nd 300	T11 63	CUT 0	•	T53 7	1426.0	7
2		T23 35	T5 105	T27 26	T13 54	T2 245	T51 8	CUT 0	1st 600	1072.2	8
3		T4 123	T14 56	56th 6	•	1st 500	T10 64	T40 15	T8 83	845.1	7
4		2nd 300	CUT 0	2nd 300	CUT 0	T21 40	CUT 0	T24 35	T8 83	757.4	8
5		T46 10	T5 105	CUT 0	CUT 0	T15 50	1st 500	T44 11	T28 32	707.4	8
6		CUT 0	T36 18	1st 500	T23 35	CUT 0	CUT 0	T54 6	T13 64	622.8	8
7		CUT 0	T36 18	CUT 0	CUT 0	T11 63	CUT 0	1st 500	T28 32	612.2	8
8		•	•	CUT 0	1st 500	CUT 0	T46 10	CUT 0	T13 64	573.8	6
9		3rd 190	CUT 0	T9 70	T4 123	•	T25 30	T18 44	T16 54	510.0	7
10		•	•	•	T4 123	CUT 0	•	•	2nd 330	452.5	3

See also[]

• 2019–20 PGA Tour
• 2020–21 Korn Ferry Tour
• 2020 PGA Tour Latinoamérica
• 2020 PGA Tour Canada
• 2020 PGA Tour China

References[]

External links[]

• Official website