Changes to the PGA Tour

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Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, the PGA Tour announced a pretty substantial overhaul of who gets to play on their Tour and how qualification takes place. In this episode, Greg, Mark, and Lou discuss these changes: why they're being done, who they benefit, and whether they'll make the PGA Tour a better product for those of us who watch it. Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Welcome back to the Hacking Out Golf podcast. We've got Greg with some news. PGATor News, I guess you've got for us, Greg.
0:39.2	What's the word on the street?
0:42.6	Yeah, so the PGA Tour Policy Board has just formally approved a comprehensive review of the field sizes
0:48.1	and a new structure to the starting in the 2026 season.
0:52.9	So we've got one more season under the current.
0:54.9	Okay.
0:55.6	Then in 2026, they're going to adjust the maximum number of players in each starting field
1:00.6	from 156 max down to 144 max, with a reduction hopefully to 120 or 132 required by circumstances
1:09.4	such as daylight.
1:10.7	I can tell you daylight gets used a lot, PJA tour to make the field smaller in my history.
1:15.8	Change exempt status from 125 down to top 100 only.
1:21.2	And add a conditional character for finishing 101 to 125,
1:26.7	which remember in the old system, that would have been 126 to 150 would be a
1:31.0	conditional status.
1:32.7	Decrease the number of PJ tour cards from the Corn Ferry Tour from 30 down to 20.
1:37.3	30 down to 20 from Corn Ferry.
1:40.4	From Corn Ferry.
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