The PGA Tour made its boldest response but to the rival, Saudi-funded LIV Golf league Wednesday with a plan for the most effective gamers to decide to a 20-tournament schedule by which they'll compete towards one another as much as 17 instances.
The schedule contains the 4 majors and options $20-million purses, aside from the smallest subject on the Sentry Match of Champions at Kapalua to begin the 12 months.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan introduced the adjustments throughout a information convention at East Lake Golf Membership previous to the beginning of the Tour Championship in Atlanta.
Many of the key tournaments already have been in place — the Genesis Invitational at Riviera, Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill and the Memorial; Kapalua and Match Play; the three FedEx Cup playoff occasions; the 4 majors and the Gamers Championship.
Nonetheless to be introduced are 4 tournaments that may be “elevated occasions.”
Gamers additionally can be required to play three common PGA Tour occasions.
The adjustments stem from a number of conferences amongst prime gamers that started on the J.P. McManus Professional-Am in Eire final month and culminated with a players-only assembly involving 23 prime gamers on the BMW Championship final week.
Gamers who participate subsequent 12 months can be decided by the Participant Influence Program, which has been revised. The tour stated 20 would come from this 12 months’s PIP program and from one other record that includes the brand new standards.
The tour is shifting away from a system geared towards Q-rating and social media and shifting extra towards tv publicity, media mentions and fan consciousness.
The PIP bonus pool goes from $50 million to $100 million subsequent 12 months, with the main participant getting a $15-million bonus.
The LIV Golf collection is anticipated to announce a brand new batch of PGA Tour gamers that's more likely to embody as many as six gamers.
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