PGA Tour Player Mark Hubbard shares his thoughts on how the new PGA Tour structure has worked out for all members of the Tour
I’m always of the mindset that I never like taking away playing opportunities. Um, you know, even from when I got on tour, you know, if you look at the, you know, 400th best guy in or the 400th, you know, world ranked guy in the world right now, like he’s four times better than he was when when I was on tour in 20, you know, 15. So, in the last 10 years, he’s gotten four times better, but he has about a fourth of the playing opportunity. Um, so that’s sad to me because just the game is in such an amazing place like and and that’s what I think most people don’t realize is just like how freaking good the guys on the cornf tour are. I mean even the the smaller tours, the you know McKenzie tour and all those like the DP tour all the there’s so much good golf. So that as a baseline like I never want to see less spots. I understand why we’ve had to do the things that we’ve had to do like competition you know makes you change and re-evaluate. So, I don’t necessarily mind the going to 100 to make it a little more competitive. I just want that 100 to mean a little more. Um, for me, I never saw the problem with the 120 field invitationals, um, and making those the signature events. Like, those were always awesome fields and awesome competition and great ratings and what have you. So, I never saw the the point of of getting rid of those and and dropping those down 50 spots. Um, and I think it just kind of makes Memphis a little weird where you know, yeah, you want to make the playoffs, but then it also doesn’t mean a ton if you do cuz like you still like, you know, if you finish 70th, you’re still going to play most of the fall to try and get in the 51 to 60. Um, so it’s just kind of this weird limbo where obviously the 50 is really important. and you want to get into those signature events, but then beyond that, it’s kind of like it takes some of the, you know, I don’t know, just like the pressure of getting the playoffs off and that and that’s not what you want. Like you want the playoffs to be as important as ever. Um, so I don’t know. I It’s all probably going to change next year. Um, we seem to be like troubleshooting a lot right now to find find that zone and we need to. Um, so it’ll be interesting to see where it goes, but I would love it if you know if you kept your card with a hundred, you get into the signature events and and that’s what the PJ tour
