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PGA Tour Confirms Big-Money Events, Special Fall Series Coming in 2023

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PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan’s battle against the LIV Golf Invitational Series appears to be a two-pronged one.

We saw the reactionary move of indefinitely banning any PGA Tour player that teed off for the renegade series, and now, Monahan is on the offensive to make his tour more attractive.

Monahan didn’t mince words that these maneuvers will benefit the players and were spurred on by what he called a threat to the game of golf that’s being funded by the Saudi Arabian government.

Monahan said:

“If this is an arms race, the only weapons here are dollar bills.” 

 

Starting next season, eight PGA Tour events will see their purses rise to at least $20 million. These tournaments will be regular-season events Sentry Tournament of Champions, Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Players Championship, and WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play along with the two FedEx Cup playoff events—FedEx St. Jude Championship and BMW Championship.

In addition, the tour will go back to a calendar-based season in 2024.

The regular season will go from January-August, followed by the FedEx Cup playoffs. The playoffs field will drop from 125 to 70, and those 70 will receive exemptions into every event for the following season. The field drops to the top 50 in the standings for the BMW Championship and then 30 for the Tour Championship.

 

The fall will feature tournaments for players to get into the top 125 to qualify for the following season, and there will also be three international big-money events that the top 50 from the FedEx Cup standings will qualify for.

“The PGA Tour is a meritocracy,” Monahan explained, using Scottie Scheffler as an example. Scheffler went from winning the Korn Ferry Tour in 2019 to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings. “Every player who had a PGA Tour card has the opportunity to be the top golfer in the world.”

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Chris has worked in sports journalism for nearly 20 years and also loves the game of golf, even though it often doesn't love him back. Year-round golf is a perk of living in Florida, where Chris moved from his native New York shortly after graduating from college. Chris has played some famous courses in the state, including Bay Hill in Orlando and Innisbrook in the Tampa Bay area, and next on his to-do list is the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass to take a crack at the famous island hole.

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