At the end of the Asian Tour's 2024 season, the International Series Rankings winner will automatically graduate over to the LIV Golf League for at least the following campaign.
Making up almost half of the Asian Tour's 21-event schedule, excluding Majors, 10 International Series tournaments - elevated competitions with higher prize purses of at least $2 million - give golfers the chance to secure one of the only routes into the lucrative 54-hole league.
Meanwhile, players who end between second and eighth in the International Series rankings earn automatic entry into the second round of this year's LIV Golf Promotions event.
Asian Tour winners - plus the next 31 eligible players in the top 40 of the rankings - will secure a place in the first round of LIV Golf Promotions, which has switched from offering three more spots in the lucrative league for the subsequent season to only one.
This year is only the third time the exclusive card has been available to Asian Tour golfers, with a partnership between the LIV Golf League's backers, the PIF, and the Asian Tour first arriving in February 2022 prior to an International Series calendar which featured only seven tournaments.
The inaugural International Series Rankings champion was Zimbabwean, Scott Vincent, and he enjoyed two seasons on the 54-hole circuit before being relegated last month. Andy Ogletree made the jump almost 12 months later after a 10-event series and went on to finish 34th in his debut season in the LIV Golf league.
And so far in 2024, American John Catlin has put himself in pole position to follow Vincent and Ogletree over to join the likes of Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka.
Through seven International Series events, Catlin has 900.58 points and is in the region of 240 points ahead of his nearest rival, Richard T. Lee - who won the Indonesian Masters. Lee is narrowly in front of Peter Uihlein, who represented Bubba Watson's RangeGoats in 2024 and the 4Aces in 2023.
Catlin has played six of the seven elevated competitions so far and claimed victory at the International Series Macau before losing out in a playoff at both the International Series Morocco and the Black Mountain Championship in Thailand. In Morocco, it was fourth-place Ben Campbell who bested him while another chasing player, MJ Maguire, claimed victory more recently.
The American's lead was closer to 200 points prior to the Indonesian Masters, but Catlin marginally increased his advantage after an eighth top-10 result on the Asian Tour season, half of which have come in International Series tournaments.
Before a 2024 champion is crowned, though, competitors face a gruelling stretch of consecutive events late in the year which culminate in the season-ending Saudi International at Riyadh Golf Club between December 4-7. That tournament features a $5 million purse and follows immediately on from the $2.5 million International Series Qatar the week before.
Below are the current top-10 in the International Series Rankings, correct after the culmination of the Indonesian Masters.
