By the time many of the PGA Tour players gathered at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Mediterranean Revival-themed clubhouse at TPC Sawgrass to hear a detailed overview of how their workplace will look in 2024, it wasn’t so much a sales pitch as an orientation.
The sweeping reinvention of the tour’s structure has moved past the discussion stage and landed as a reality, the decisions made with the short- and long-term views coming into sharp focus.
The details – eight super-rich designated events plus the four major championships, the Players Championship and three FedEx Cup playoff events, with a scheduling cadence in place to enhance the other events – had been finalized in a seven-hour Policy Board meeting one week earlier.
The 90-minute session Tuesday just spelled out many of the details without turning up the temperature in the room.
“It was very moderate actually,” said Adam Scott, chairman of the Player Advisory Council which was instrumental in sculpting the PGA Tour’s next era. “The tour explained things very clearly so everybody could get their heads around things. Most will have understood that. Maybe some need a little more time to digest; maybe some don’t care.”
J.T. Poston and Jon Rahm play the same tour but with different levels of success. Both took a pass on attending the meeting. Rahm chose to use the morning to play with his two young children. Poston felt as if he already knew enough.
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