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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
In addition, they interviewed Scheffler, McIlroy, Schauffle, Morikawa and other top players who would usually benefit from the staggered starting scores and they all were in favor of the change. But I don't think they can lead in to the TV coverage tagline of "part of the season long race for the FedEx Cup anymore, just the season long race to the top 30  |
In 5 years, we won't recognize the PGA Tour. The plan is to reduced the number of fully qualified PGA Tour players, to 50-75. There'll be additional 25-50 revolving spots, based on other qualifying criteria.
One need only look at the Leaderboard at the Rocket Mortgage, to see why the Tour is in such flux. LIV Golf shed a spotlight on what the PGA Tour was missing from a fan perspective. Star Power drives TV Ratings. LIV may have made poor choices as to who was actually a "Star", but their concept was on target.
At the Rocket, in the Top 25, only Colin Morikawa has any star power. Most golfers aren't all that interested in watching a Lumpy Heron look-alike from South Africa, shoot 23 under Par.