Question of the week [May 4-10]: How would you like to see the PGA Tour schedule structured — length, signature events, new events?
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Thirty weeks for the entire PGA Tour year. Signature events spread evenly throughout from February through August — one every four to five weeks. The majors dominate and the calendar works around them. Tour Championship ends season in mid-September.
Will Brewer
Nashville, Tennessee
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Less signature events and more full-field events with the top 150 players [at season's end] getting Tour cards.
Paul Schubring
Williston, Florida
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Have one tourney in Hawaii consisting of only winners on the Tour from 2026 with a signature event payout and no cut. Then wait until after the Super Bowl is over before commencing a weekly schedule.
Go back to all tournaments having a cut and a full field of all eligible players. Drop the signature events. Let the four majors, plus the Players and a few other tournaments — such as Jack Nicklaus' and Arnold Palmer's events, the Scottish and Irish Opens, the British BMW events — have larger payouts. The FedEx Cup would be the finals with match play.
Art Williams
Luzerne, Pennsylvania
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Clearly the brain trust at the PGA Tour is incapable of running the show anymore. As far as they are concerned any conflict, any competition for viewers is reason to turn turtle and walk away from their duty. The vast majority of businesses would not even exist if they didn't explore alternative paths to success.
Abandoning markets that have been part of the PGA Tour family for decades is disgraceful. The fact there are actually people out there who are interested in golf and football at the same time appears to be a new discovery for the PGA Tour marketing department. They are not mutually exclusive groups.
If the predetermined fields and limited number of premium tournaments is the absolute new direction, then find the number of events — say 15 a year, not counting the majors or the Players — and give the top 100 players a choice: You must play in every one of those events and for every one you skip, you have to play in two alternate tournaments not at the premium sites. Make the premium events Thursday thru Sunday and the events competing with the NFL would run Wednesday thru Saturday.
Allow all the smaller markets — think Hawaii, for starters — as a type of pre-season where those players can compete for additional points if they can't drum up purses comparative to premium events. Include more Korn Ferry Tour collaboration and give more recognition for those events in the same sense as a minor league.
Or ...
Just start making all PGA Tour events exclusively pay-per-view.
Hard to believe The PGA Tour can't find people smart enough to see a better path forward.
Pete Croppo
Bayfield, Ontario
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Keep the schedule simple. Begin in February and end in October. Eliminate special designations and limited or no-cut fields. Keep FedEx points consistent across all tournaments except for the four majors. Allow only a limited and consistent number of sponsor exemptions.
Only allow LIV golfers back onto the PGA Tour after they have gone through qualifying school. Quit coddling these crybabies that ran off to take easy Saudi money. I don't see any need for new events.
Jim Fuquay
Indianapolis, Indiana
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I think dropping the Hawaiian events was a poor decision. The PGA Tour avarice in demanding larger and larger purses has dealt a fatal blow to so many traditional events. Further, I would do away with the so-called signature events. These are smaller fields, often with no cuts. It eliminates players and leads to complacency.
Though it will be unpopular with the anti-LIV zealots, getting those world-class players back on the PGA Tour will deepen the field and help allay the theory that guys like Scottie Scheffler have been racking up titles against lesser competition — the same lesser competition (fewer players) that comes with signature events.
Vinny Mooney
Poughkeepsie, New York
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I would like to see more tournaments than the Tour is currently playing and planning on playing. I hear that football takes the majority of TV viewers and that is one of the reasons they wanted a shorter season, but it seems to me the Tour is only thinking about optimizing its finances instead of their fans.
I also know the best players don’t want to play as much now that they are all millionaires. The only motivation they have is legacy and their own personal competitive fire.
Joe Cook
Moncks Corner, South Carolina
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▪️ All events should be full field with cuts.
▪️ No more than four signature events and the top 50 players have to play all of them.
▪️ Somewhere between 24-28 events.
▪️ The fall season should be different formats such as teams and match play. And top 50 should be required to play some of these too, to be fair to the sponsors
▪️ The Tour needs to find a way to play in Chicago, Boston … they need these big markets.
▪️ Would love to see events in Australia but doubt today’s PGA players will travel there, which is too bad. Great fans and great courses.
Ken Turek
Chicago , Illinois
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