The PGA Tour, in its continual reaction to the rival LIV Golf tour, is drastically shaking up its scheduling and making radical changes to the sport as it’s been known
ratified a new approach to the schedule to begin in 2024
The plan is for player fields in designated events to be reduced to between 70 and 78 players with no halfway cut. The PGA Tour, in response to the mega-millions LIV Golf has offered to lure players to the rival Saudi-backed tour, this year launched a number of designated “elevated’’ events with minimum purses of $20 million.Getty ImagesReducing field sizes is certain to rub many of the so-called “rank-and-file” non-stars on the PGA Tour the wrong way because it’ll threaten to reduce opportunities to play.
Scottie Scheffler, like McIlroy a top-ranked player, called the change “exciting, because you’re going to have top guys in the world playing against each other and it guarantees the sponsors to have the top guys all four days.
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