re: The PGA Tour bloodletting begins...Hawaii swing axed from schedule

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are trying to frame this news as some sort of “Gotcha!” moment.

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I'm not framing anything. The PGA, Like LIV, is making financial moves to make the tour more sustainable. The current PGA tour with massive purses is not sustainable. SSG bought them some time to try to get their house in order and stop the LIV defections. Go look at the PGA Tour's financials from last year. They're not good.

PGA Tour’s $451M Loss Exposes Deeper Financial Tensions as Alarming Report Emerges

PGA Tour purses are primarily funded by title sponsors—corporations that pay a fee exceeding the prize money—along with revenue from television and media rights deals with partners like CBS, NBC, and ESPN. Local host organizations, which run the tournaments, handle on-site expenses, while sponsors cover the lion's share of the purse, often exceeding $20 million in "Signature Events"

You don't know shite, Pirate

Why'd you leave this part off?

Title Sponsors: Companies that host tournaments pay for the prize money, usually as part of a package that costs them roughly 150% of the total purse, covering prize money, charity donations, and event branding.

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and facts to back up this assertion are last years strength of field rankings, where the 2025 Sony Open was above or tied with these full-field, non-major events- Texas Children's Open Sentry Valspar Wyndham Rocket Classic The American Express Canadian Open Farmers Valero CJ Cup Cognizant 3M John Deere

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Are you under the impression that any of these fields are good?

Sentry doesn’t count bc it’s not full field.

One of the CJ Cup/Schwab needs to go (combine Hogan and Byron at Colonial is my answer)

Zurich stinks but is also in a brutal schedule position. Surrounded by 2 majors and 3 Sig Events.

Farmers last year is a little misleading because they were also gonna play the Genesis there so a handful of guys withdrew ahead of that tourney.

Valspar and Cognizant are in bad parts of the schedule but I’m very down for one of those disappearing.


Rocket Classic, 3M, Canadian Open, and John Deere all stink. Bad courses at bad parts of the schedule.


I really like Waialae, and it stinks to see it go away. But it generally is about the 18th or 19th highest ranked field per year on the PGA Tour out of about 32 non-opposites field regular season events.

It’s one of the lowest ranked fields in the first 4 months of every year and competes against football season in a non-major media market.

The PGA Tour needs to massive re-do the schedule because it just doesn’t make sense the way things are right now. Too many signature events to start the year. Not enough major media markets.

Sucks for fans

Glad we had the great disruptor, LIV, to make golf less competitive for 5 years, funnel Saudi money to players, and make the product worse after they’re gone

It did the players a lot of favors. It did not do the fans a lot of favors. Most of us care more about the fans.

Nothing good came out of LIV.

It completely divided the sport and made televised golf a lesser product.

Dude. LIv forced a media outlet to take down an interview, cut out what their ceo said, and repost it

The”corrupt media” shite is ridiculous to still be said by LIV bots

Show us once where the pga tour forced a media outlet to cut an interview from their website, doctor it, and repost it

That’s indefensible yet here you are It’s also fricking retarded because the interview was already public