Harris English Reveals the Drastic PGA Tour Schedule Changes Planned for 2027

Harris English didn’t hold back when asked about the future of the PGA TOUR schedule.
Speaking ahead of the 2025 RSM Classic, the World No. 11 and four-time PGA TOUR winner revealed the drastic changes being discussed for the 2027 season — including a potential start after the Super Bowl, the impact on the traditional Hawaii swing, and what could happen to iconic stops like Torrey Pines, Pebble Beach and Riviera.

In this clip, English explains:

Why the TOUR “can’t really compete with football”

How a post–Super Bowl start could reshape the entire calendar

His concern about losing some of the classic West Coast events

Why, at 36, he knows it’s only getting tougher to keep up as the schedule and categories evolve

The role of new COO Brian Rolapp and why Harris still has “a lot of faith” in the people running the PGA TOUR

If you want an insider’s view of where the PGA TOUR could be headed by 2027, this interview is a must-watch.

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All right, we’d like to welcome Sea Island resident Harris English to the 2025 RSM Classic. Harris is making his 14th appearance here. What’s it like being home and playing in this event this week? I can’t believe I’ve been here 14 years. Um, it it’s it’s awesome. I mean, we get kind of stuck in our routines for 25 to 28 weeks a year, and it’s it’s definitely different sleeping in your own bed and going back to your own house and um doing that. But it’s it’s a lot of fun. A lot of family and friends coming out this week and a lot of St. Simons folks that don’t get to see us play a whole lot. So, it’s uh it’s awesome to play for them and and be here at at our home track. We haven’t seen you on tour since Procore. Can you just fill us in on what you’ve been up to and how the RDER Cup was? Yeah. Um haven’t been playing a whole lot of golf here recently. I’m I’m starting to get back into it. Um yeah, the Rder Cup was awesome. It didn’t go the way that we wanted it to, but um that was one of my main goals this year was to make that RDER Cup team and so happy I did. Um it’s the pinnacle of our sport. Um had a great time with all those guys and you get to know them a lot better than you than you do on on tour. I mean, you’re in the bus with them a ton. you’re in the locker room with them a lot, going to a lot of dinners, and you get to see different sides of these guys and and um it’s an awesome bond and an awesome experience that we’ll never forget. You’re the highest ranked player in the field this week. How does your game feel? Uh it felt pretty good today, but I I I haven’t been playing that much. I haven’t um I’ve taken a good off season, so I’m uh the expectations are pretty low this week, which I I think can be good. Um I I’ve definitely been in the situations before where you have a lot of pressure this last week and you’re playing for your card and um I I don’t envy those guys that are in that position. Um, so I’ve got to kind of use that to my advantage of of going out and freewheeling a little bit and and using the low the low expectations to go out and have a lot of fun and and see if I can get something going. All right, we’ll open it up to questions. If you have a question, raise your hand. We’ll start with Gary right here. Hey Harris, how you doing? Uh, you you’ve you’ve arrived at a stage, I think, on the PJ tour where this doesn’t necessarily affect you. the reduced field sizes, the reduced exemptions. Uh but what’s your thoughts on uh the the new numbers game that’s going to start next year? Yeah, it’s tough. Um I haven’t really sat down and thought about it a ton. I mean, the the tour has changed a lot since I first came on tour um back in 2012. Um it’s going to keep evolving. I we got some smart guys at the helm. Um, now with Brian Rolap um, coming in, he’s he’s seeing the PJ tour in a different light and um, sometimes change is good. I mean, I I get that they want all the best players playing together more often and the talk of the tour potentially starting after the Super Bowl, I think, is a pretty good thing because we we can’t really compete with football. Um, so we’ll see. We’ll see where it goes. I know it’s going to get tougher and tougher and um the goalposts are moving a little bit and um I know it’s going to get harder for me. I mean, at 36 years old, I’m not getting any younger. Um but we’ll see where it goes. I mean, the everybody’s in for the good of the PJ tour and to to make our product the best it can be and whatever that takes is is what it takes. Okay. And you just mentioned Brian who’s got an NFL background. Uh first of all, have you been able to get to a Jaguars game this year? I have. I’ve been to I’ve been to two two wins this year. Which ones did you go to? I went to the first one against the Panthers and then I went to the Monday night game against the Chiefs. Okay. All right. And especially Ed, put your anal an analytical hat on, football analyst hat on the last two weeks, especially with how kind of jackal and hide this team is. First of all, how do you think Liam’s done with this team to this point? And uh you know, when they’re playing well, how much fun is it to watch that team? Yeah, it’s awesome. Um that Texans game a couple weeks ago, I actually stopped watching it. We had to go take pictures with Santa on the beach and I I thought we kind of had the win in the bag and I kept looking on my phone and and when we got back in the car, we were down and I was super shocked. Um but obviously blew blew out the Chargers last week. Um I think Liam’s doing awesome. Um, all the young guys on the staff from Tony Baselli to the GM Gladstone, all the young coaches, I think they’re breathing a lot of new life into that team and um, into Jacksonville and I I think it’s it’s an awesome product to watch right now and um, they’re they’re doing a great job. We’ll go over to Kathy. When you said you got to know the guys on the RDER Cup team in a different way than you’d known them playing on tour, can you give a couple of examples? Did someone completely surprise you by being completely crazy or you found out that they didn’t like onions or you know what what kind of things did you find out? Um, we got to see a different side of Bryson which I I really liked. He kind of let his hair down a little bit. Um, he had a lot of fun and and he probably loves the RDER Cup more than anybody I’ve ever seen. Um, so it’s cool to cool to see that. Um, a guy that I haven’t spent a ton of time with the last few years. Um, so it was awesome to to get to know Bryson more and and to kind of see that side of him. And I haven’t played with Scotty a whole lot and and we played a bunch of practice rounds together and simple things of like watching him hit chips around the green and how he um reacts to certain lies and and picking his brain on on some shots. probably something different than like playing with him at the Masters, he’s probably not going to share that information. But at the RDER Cup, I mean, he was he was an open book to ask questions and um for me getting to learn from the best player in the world and and how nice a guy Scotty is that can help me with some of those shots around the green to to get better at. We’ll go over to Gary right here. Well, what was the best question you asked Scotty? There was this end of the grain lie around the greens that I’ve kind of always struggled with and and tried different ways to hit it and he had a very simple answer to it and he does the same thing every time. Um, and I’d never thought about it that way and and just watching him do it and then myself trying and like, wow, that’s that’s a big difference. Um, because he he’s a magician around the greens. I like the way he goes about his game and and we I think we we think similar. Um we’re field players and obviously he he’s one of the hardest workers I’ve ever seen. Um both in the gym, on the golf course, great family guy. Um so just to to learn some stuff from him was was incredible. What was that tip? Um I mean he he more hits it with a square face and um changes his stance a little bit. Um, which for me I I kind of always thought I should draw it from those lies and he just square would square face and hit like a normal chip and it comes out the same every single time. You mentioned your off season kind of in the middle of the fall season. It sounds like is this longer off season for you than normal and why was was that dictated by physical issues? You just needed a rest after the RDER Cup or what was the reason behind this? Yeah, I mean the last couple years like I finished 55th last year, so I had to play a bunch in the fall to stay in that top 60 window to where I get in the first two elevated events of the year. So I played a lot last fall and this one is like I I had a little longer season still gearing up for the I played Napa, I played the RDER Cup. So we had an extra three or four weeks that I was still playing golf. So it was nice to take a break and and kind of let your mind relax a little bit and and be home a lot. um go to a lot of football games, do stuff that I I normally don’t get a whole lot of time to do. Um so I’m I’m kind of gearing up now and and kind of still practice and prepare in December and get ready for the West Coast. We’ll go to Gary. Adams at Shank said something interesting yesterday. We were got to the point about the reduce fields, reduce exemptions, and he said he thinks that the top tobottom talent out here is so good that that almost doesn’t matter. It’s going to be hard regardless of field spots because he thinks that the that that the game has improved so much across the board. I’m wondering if you agree with that. Yeah, I mean there’s a lot of young guys probably in this field that you’ve never heard of that can easily come out and win this tournament this week. Um the depth of this tour is unlike any other and it’s just going to get harder and harder to to compete out here and and to keep your card. Um, but that keeps me grinding and driving and um, we’ve got a lot of young guys that are moving to Sea Island that that keep me kind of keep me in check of not looking at these guys are coming to take my job, but um, it pushes me to get better and better and I want to play out here as long as I can. Um, and the sport, if if you play the best golf for for a few months, you’re going to get in the best tournaments. Um, nobody’s going to stop you. So if if you’re still playing good golf, there’s still opportunities to play in the best tournaments. And this might be dating myself, but I remember quite a long time ago uh when it was top 125 money and it would finish up at Disney. I was doing a story on the guys who are right there in that bubble and and I was asking some veterans and Payne Stewart told me, “Well, they should have played better in May.” So I know that’s a kind of a cynical way to look at, but does it matter just make more birdies? Is it is it is it that simple? Is that what guys are going to have to do? Yeah, I mean, you look at the other leagues, um, they’re all super competitive and and what you did two or three years ago doesn’t mean anything today. I mean, the NFL cuts guys all the time. Um, and and we’re getting pretty cutthroat out here, but if if it makes our product better and and more fans watch and more fans are coming out here to tournaments, then um, I’m all for it. We’ll go over to Ron. As people talk about what the tour may look like down the road, there was some speculation that maybe the fall would get reduced and yet suddenly Austin’s got a tournament, Asheville’s got a tournament. How do you view the fall part of the schedule and do you want to see it remain sort of a vibrant segment of the tour? Yeah, it’s changed a lot since I was on tour. I mean, there’s a time there where the fall counted a lot, counted as much as the other season. I I would play well in the fall and it would really springboard me into the into the year. I’ve had a couple wins in the fall. Um so I’m not saying one’s right or one’s wrong. Um I mean I’m putting my faith in in the guys at the helm and and having the direction of this tour to to make it the best it can be. Um I mean tournaments like this I I don’t want them to see to go away because I know how much they mean to this community and a lot of these fall events. Um, we go to a lot of places in the country that, um, they don’t get a whole lot of golf tournaments and you you can tap into a different fan base and um, I don’t really want to see them go away, but I think they’ll they’ll find a time and a place for some of those. Anyone else? We’ll go back over here to Gary. Getting back to the what they’re just talking about with the schedule, it seems like uh it almost seems ironic where the guys who aren’t in the signature events are going to be pre under pressure to play more times whereas the guys who are established and are playing the signature events, getting the extra money, getting the extra points, they kind of are disincentivized from playing more. They’re they can play less. Wouldn’t you want your top guys playing more and the other guys playing less? I you know I’m exaggerating Sully, but you know I think you you see there like kind of it’s kind of odd. I mean I know I’ve heard outsiders tell me that it seems like the guys you the top players got into the treehouse and pulled a ladder up after them. What What do you think about that? Yeah, I think that’s what they’re going to change um down the road, maybe in 2027, is is have all the tournaments be equal and and not have the eight elevated events and then the regular events like they’ll have 20 or 22 events that are all the same. And I think that’s a good model to have and that’s where we see all the top players play every single event because you can’t really afford to take one off. Um, but I as it goes for the elevated events, like I I love even if they weren’t elevated, I’d probably play all of them. Um, I have for a long time. Um, really Pebble’s the only one that I I didn’t play for a good good amount of time in my career, just where it fell on the schedule. Um, I love playing on the West Coast. I love kind of getting off to that start of playing a lot of events over there and and get your season started off good. Um, but we’ll see where it goes. I I think the more going where 20 events are all the same. All the points, all the money, everything the same. All right. And we’ll wrap right here with Adam. A lot of those events in in early January are ones where you’ve won or had a lot of success. How do you feel about the Hawaii swing or maybe even Tori going away until Yeah, I wouldn’t like that at all. Um yeah, all the players are bummed that we’re not going back to Kapalua. Um it’s one of our favorite events, a fun start to the year. Bring the family out there. It’s very relaxed and then kind of roll into Sony. Wai is an awesome course. Um so it would uh it would kind of sting if those if those tournaments go away and um it would change up that West Coast swing and I mean Tory Ponds has been one of my favorites. I’ve had a lot of success there and I would hate to see some of those tournaments go away. Um but we’ll see. I mean, I like I said, I’ve got a lot of faith in those guys at the helm and and roll and the vision they have for the tour and um wherever they tell me I can play, I’m going to play. All right. Appreciate the time, Harris. Good luck this week. Appreciate it.