PGA Tour golfers unhappy with Tiger Woods' ideas: "This is not growing the game"
Several members of the PGA Tour have voiced their concern after Tiger Woods outlined plans to drastically reduce the schedule over the next few years.
Several PGA Tour members have voiced their concerns after Tiger Woods outlined plans to make wholesale changes to the schedule.
The 15-time major champion is being tasked with fronting the future competition committee.
Said committee includes Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Camilo Villegas, Maverick McNealy and Keith Mitchell.
The overall aim is to re‑evaluate and redesign the PGA Tour's competitive model - covering regular season, postseason and offseason
Woods told reporters last week before the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas that they had only met a few times.
He was reluctant to offer too many details but the 49-year-old indicated that, from 2027, the PGA Tour could look completely different.
The biggest change appears to be beginning the season in February to avoid clashing with the NFL and reducing the number of tournaments down to around 25.
There also appears to be an appetite for having "off-weeks" after major championships.
Some tournaments would also be taken to "bigger markets" elsewhere.
Tom Hoge is not a fan of what is being proposed and told Golf Channel that before the breakaway LIV Golf League entered the picture he believed the Tour worked "pretty well".
"Guys could pick and choose where they wanted to [play]," he said. "Events had roughly the same stature throughout the season.
"You go back to Tiger and Phil [Mickelson], they very rarely played the same events other than WGCs or majors, but they sort of carried those events they chose to play. That model seemed to work pretty good.
"The beauty of playing the PGA Tour is if you want to take a month off you can, and if you want to play four weeks in a row you can. I don't love this idea of a reduced schedule.”
Ryan Palmer, a four-time PGA Tour winner, echoed his sentiments, adding: "This is not growing the game of golf.
"I'm having a hard time seeing how this grows the game."
Not everyone agrees with Palmer and Hoge.
Brian Harman, a member of the players advisory council, argued that whatever decisions are made there will be winners and losers.
"That's the universe, push one way and you get pushed the other way," he said.
"It feels like we're on to something, like it’s got a little momentum. We're trying to get more eyeballs on golf.
"We're trying to get more people to have an appointment for the week to sit down and watch golf."
What did Tiger Woods say?
As is so often the case when Woods faces the media, the golfer was light on the specifics.
Woods said "there's going to be some eggs that are spilled and crushed and broken, but I think in the end we're going to have a product that is far better than what we have now, for everyone".
The committee's goal is to roll out the new schedule for 2027.
Woods said they’ve talked with title sponsors, business executives, tournament directors, media partners and players to determine the best path forward.
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"Hopefully we get to that point. We're working with all of our partners to create the best schedule and product to deliver all that in '27 is something we're trying to do," Woods said.
"I don't know if we can get there, I don't know if we will get there, but that's what we're trying to do."
Woods confirmed the nine-man committee has only met three times since August, but they talk daily.
PGA Tour chief executive, Brian Rolapp, told reporters before the season-finale that his goal was not to make incremental changes.
"The goal is significant change," he added.
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