re: PGA announces 8 new tournaments next year. Purse: $20M. No cuts.

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will this still be a problem if the players will have to play early season events to get in the top 50 of the FedEx points?

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For guys who aren't already there trying to get into the top 50, yeah probably. Moving forward, if they used the top 50 from this year for these tournaments next year, they could play in these 8, 2 WGCs, and 4 majors. The WGCs and the majors get you more FedEx cup points than regular tour events already (I'd assume these events would too), so if they perform well in these 14 events, they probably wouldn't need to play in many other events to get enough points to stay in the top 50. For instance, Tiger Woods only played in 17 events the 2017-2018 season prior to the Tour championship and made it into the top 30 to qualify to play without winning a tournament prior, having only 7 top 10 finishes, and missing the cut twice. I don't think it would be overly difficult for the best tour players to stay in the top 50 and still maintain a manageable schedule.