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Posted on 8/26/26 at 3:11 pm to iwyLSUiwy
My only suggested tweak is that number 1 seed should have to pick his opponent from the guys ranked 17- 32…and then #2 picks and so on until all the matches are set. Then do it again for the next rounds..let’s get some rivalries going.
Posted on 8/26/26 at 9:41 pm to bstaceyau19
Match play is the single worst format to determine the best player. Any of the final 50 players can beat the #1 player on any given day. Are they going to give the Final Fed Ex trophy to potentially a player that never won an event during the season, but finished top 25 often enough to make the final cut into the playoffs? It could easily happen, and I hope it does.
Difficult format for fans on site to watch (just ask anyone that has ever attended a Ryder Cup) and the TV fans will hate it as often the matches never even reach the 15th hole.
This match play nonsense will be very short lived and very poorly received by the golfing public.....book it!
Difficult format for fans on site to watch (just ask anyone that has ever attended a Ryder Cup) and the TV fans will hate it as often the matches never even reach the 15th hole.
This match play nonsense will be very short lived and very poorly received by the golfing public.....book it!
Posted on 8/27/26 at 6:48 am to QB
To be fair the majors and players is really how you determine the “best player” and they’re also having regular season points winner crowned the week before the match play.
The match play is intended to sort of become its own beast and offer something different at the end of the season.
I agree there’s a chance it’s not as engaging as a lot of fans want, but anything is better than the current system. At least this will have juice because it’s different and rotating to different courses will be its ace in the hole. And courses that can’t host normal events because of infrastructure issues or length/difficulty. You don’t really need to protect par as much in match play and you don’t need as many fans to make it feel bumping with only 16 players, so you can go to a 6,900 yard course with 10,000 fans and it’ll work as a tv product.
The match play is intended to sort of become its own beast and offer something different at the end of the season.
I agree there’s a chance it’s not as engaging as a lot of fans want, but anything is better than the current system. At least this will have juice because it’s different and rotating to different courses will be its ace in the hole. And courses that can’t host normal events because of infrastructure issues or length/difficulty. You don’t really need to protect par as much in match play and you don’t need as many fans to make it feel bumping with only 16 players, so you can go to a 6,900 yard course with 10,000 fans and it’ll work as a tv product.
Posted on 8/27/26 at 7:39 am to QB
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Are they going to give the Final Fed Ex trophy to potentially a player that never won an event during the season, but finished top 25 often enough to make the final cut into the playoffs? It could easily happen, and I hope it does.
They are giving out the season champion trophy at the event before the match-play starts. This is it's own thing.
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Difficult format for fans on site to watch (just ask anyone that has ever attended a Ryder Cup)
The buildout should be much less than a normal event. Sure, it won't be as good as stroke on the grounds, but this is being built for television.
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TV fans will hate it as often the matches never even reach the 15th hole.
Are you claiming that matches between the best 32 golfers in the world will "often" end up as 5&4 or 6&4 or worse?
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This match play nonsense will be very short lived and very poorly received by the golfing public.....book it!
They've done everything else before this
- Separate season long winner and Tour champion winner
- Starting strokes
- Even starting point and FedEx champion is just the winner of the Tour Championship
Nobody cared about any of those. The public and players couldn't care less. They needed to try something else. If this doesn't work, they might as well scrap the whole thing because nothing will work. They are banking on this being the most straightforward way for people to get engaged. Mano e Mano. Win more holes than the guy you are playing.
This post was edited on 8/27/26 at 7:41 am
Posted on 8/28/26 at 5:47 am to bstaceyau19
Match play was always the answer. Glad the tour finally realized that.
This post was edited on 8/28/26 at 6:00 am
Posted on 8/28/26 at 10:55 am to TejasHorn
What if they would get very creative and do a point system based on match and strokes. For every stroke under par you get one point and lose a point for every stroke over par. If you win your match, you get 10 points. Add them together at the end of the day and form a leaderboard. That way, at least strokes would count for something.
Posted on 9/16/26 at 8:28 am to jpggpj
The PGA Tour released how people will qualify for the Championship level for 2028 and onward.
PGA Tour Article
There are two things that I am not happy about after all the talk of this being more of a meritocrazy:
Two years sounds like way too much. I think I could've accepted one year, but even then, I'd rather it just be the top points winners.
Also, I didn't see it in the article, but they mentioned it on the Shotgun Start that there will be special one time exemptions for anyone in the top 50 all-time money list. You just had to have played in the Championship Series the year before. Even crazier is that for 2028, you have to have just played in 15 events in 2027. So, that means guys like Lucas Glover, Stu Cink, and Keegan Bradley will automatically be in the Championship level if they can get 15 starts next year. Since it is not mentioned in the press release, I am hopeful that the Shotgun Start was mistaken.
PGA Tour Article
There are two things that I am not happy about after all the talk of this being more of a meritocrazy:
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Winners of PGA Tour Championship Series events, including THE PLAYERS Championship and majors, receive membership for the current season and the following two seasons. Unlike the current system, exemptions do not stack for multiple wins in a season.
Two years sounds like way too much. I think I could've accepted one year, but even then, I'd rather it just be the top points winners.
Also, I didn't see it in the article, but they mentioned it on the Shotgun Start that there will be special one time exemptions for anyone in the top 50 all-time money list. You just had to have played in the Championship Series the year before. Even crazier is that for 2028, you have to have just played in 15 events in 2027. So, that means guys like Lucas Glover, Stu Cink, and Keegan Bradley will automatically be in the Championship level if they can get 15 starts next year. Since it is not mentioned in the press release, I am hopeful that the Shotgun Start was mistaken.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:30 am to DestrehanTiger
quote:I think the better argument against it is how bad it can be for TV when you get down to very few players on the course. It works well for the Cup series because you eventually get a somewhat full course. Two guys or even 4...lots of down time between shots.
I know arguments will be made that they play stroke all season and then have match play determine the champion.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:41 am to AlxTgr
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I think the better argument against it is how bad it can be for TV when you get down to very few players on the course. It works well for the Cup series because you eventually get a somewhat full course. Two guys or even 4...lots of down time between shots.
They plan to have all 16 guys play all rounds at the end. Whether that is compelling or not is still up in the air, but they will have more than just the final guys on the course on that last day.
I highly doubt they do it, but if they made the loser bracket matches have some sort of off the wall variation of matchplay, that could be fun. I'm thinking something along the lines of removal of clubs, tee box choices, etc.
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