re: New PGA Tour - 15 to 18 events

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In its release, the PGA Tour said it has already identified 10 of its 15 Championship Series regular-season tournaments for the 2028 season. The current eight signature events -- AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, RBC Heritage, Cadillac Championship, Truist Championship, Memorial Tournament and Travelers Championship -- are expected to remain part of the future schedule.

The tour is targeting larger markets such as Boston, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C., to fill out the remaining five spots in the calendar. The tour is beginning to finalize the markets, courses, dates and sponsors for the remaining tournaments.

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Brutal for the events that are getting demoted, which are a lot of them.

I think the events on the lower track will end up being pretty transient events similar to the Korn Ferry where the sponsors and locations change frequently. Houston will obviously be on the lower track, I am curious to see if it stays at Memorial (or in Houston at all long term)

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NASCAR was hugely popular in the early 2000's and they started fricking with the schedule and postseason format, now it is on life support

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NASCAR is definitely not on life support, but their rating certainly are no where near they were in that era.

I think that’s the case. Sponsors and their willingness to put up big money will be what determines the markets and events that are on the higher track

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I hope the players push back on this. Not all of them want to play a limited schedule.

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idk, with how big the purses are now, the need to grind and play 30 tournaments a year is going away. It's only June and there are already 90 players who have won a million on tour this season. And if tier 1 has 20 million purses every week, then why would any of those guys want to play in more golf tournaments?

Something tells me this structure may not exactly become a reality. The marketability of pro golf really does revolve around the top 20 or 30 guys. And one of the things those guys value more than anything is flexibility of their schedule as they see fit. It's a feature of Golf as an individual sport.

So the tour thinks they're gonna be able to dictate to Scottie Scheffler that he CANNOT play in the tournament in his hometown because it's been relegated? There's a lot of other situations like that I think are problematic with this proposed format.

Maybe allow Tier 1 players to play in up to 4 Tier 2 events (pick a number) of their choosing. Allows some flexibility and the crossover helps connect the two tours.

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For more money

Pretty simple.

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there are very few grinders left on the PGA Tour because the money is so much better now. If you more than double the purses, they have even less incentive to need or want to grind. The only ones who would want to would be guys trying to manufacture points or get easier wins to get into majors.

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there are very few grinders left on the PGA Tour because the money is so much better now. If you more than double the purses, they have even less incentive to need or want to grind. The only ones who would want to would be guys trying to manufacture points or get easier wins to get into majors.

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The guys that don’t need money now won’t need money in 2028. Your complaint makes no sense.

You can’t say there’s no grinders now and then complain there won’t be any grinders once the money changes.

There’s almost no change happening for the best players in the world under the new model. You know, they guys with all the money already