So many golf fans and players are FURIOUS over the new 2024 changes to the PGA tour but i’m not! Here is why! There has been so much talk over the past few days over what the PGA Tour schedule will feature in the new PGA tour ‘Signature Series, but now we know! Find out exactly what the reaction was in todays breaking news video!
Some PGA players are FURIOUS and HATE the BRAND NEW PGA CHANGES!! BUT I DON’T!
The PGA Tour has made some big changes to the 2024 schedule, but according to sources a lot of this is due to Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Matt Fitzpatrick, Jordan Speith and other PGA tour players. It seems strange to not be bringing breaking news that isn’t about Liv golf players, liv golf tour, liv golf, liv golf merger, pga tour liv golf merger.
PGA players are FURIOUS AND HATE the BRAND NEW PGA CHANGES!! BUT I DON’T!
It’s going to be interesting to see how this impacts the PGA tour, golf majors such as the masters, the open, the us open.
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Liv is gonna be death to pro golf as we knew it
How many jobs do you turn up to and have a 50/50 chance of getting paid, not to mention you have to still pay for a coach and caddy, travel/accomm cost. If you want to help the lower players then you pay them a nominal amount $10-15K for turning up and missing the cut (they still have to be in the top 125 in the world to earn this pleasure). You all seem to have it back to front if your goal is to help the little guys on tour. By comparison a player who loses a first round at a tennis major takes about $50K home, and the game can be over in an hour, to miss the cut still take 8-9 hours over 2 days. And before you ask the fields are about the same size.
The less players in an event the less attractive the golf event is for spectators, because the chance that a certain player is on top of the leaderboard with a huge gap to the player in second place becomes larger and thus less exciting to watch. I already have this with the last tournament of the Fedexcup, with only 30 players attending…..
As a professional sports entertainer you should get paid something simply by being in the field. Establish a minimum that can at least cover player expenses for the week. Now that only the Top 70 are guaraneed invitation to the no-cut events there's an immense amount of pressure for the guys in the bottom 1/3 to maintain their stauts. Look no further than Justin Thomas, Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama, who will be on the outside looking in at next year's signature events unless they receive sponsor exemptions, which is a good probability for all three. However, for the mules that finish just outside the top 70 they'll be forced to play "the cut" events in hopes of not only finishing in the Top 70 next year, but keeping their PGAT card.
I think there still should be cuts but at least give the players who don't make the cut 10k each so they are not playing for free can you imagine if other professional players in other sports only got paid if they won
Maybe I missed it but you should do a bit on Bryson De Chambeau's weekend scores. It was a historic performance the likes of which we will not see again. The PGA merger will be skuttled by Tiger and his crew so focus on golf that is entertaining and interesting not the soap opera known as the PGA
You cant please everyone and the lower you are on the totem pole you come under the category that is everyone
the game has become a right load of BS….
I think it should be just limited to paying expenses. They were invited to play the tourney so they should be at least compensated for expenses. The PGA makes billions and could had done that. You invite them to make money, so pay their expenses. I enjoyed all three LIV events I took my family to and my children did also. They hate PGA events because it is boring to them.
Seems like the pga is following LIV set up. But yes the pga should keep cuts because it allows players a chance to compete without the cut the field can only support 60 players. If these guys dont even get the opportunity to play it will damage the growth of golf
cuts are important for the players, if not it's like a charity event
I see a players union on the horizon. Bobby Jones is rolling in his grave. Gentleman's sport, my ass. money, money, money, moNEY… MONey.
Cuts are stupid, always have been. And not paying golfers who turn up and play while people in suits get paid regardless rubs me the wrong way, so can't agree on that either.
A key consideration for the no-cut events is this, do they still earn FedEx cup points in those events? I presume they would but please clarify. Thus the top players will have more "opportunities" to earn FedEx cup points than the players not qualifying for those events. This also plays on the World ranking point I could imagine. So if you can make the first no-cut event, you would probably be in the clear for the other no-cut events, and a top 70 place at least in the FedEx cup playoffs, and a higher world ranking.
I agree. Cuts should stay so everyone gets a chance.
Not got the balls to comment on liv comments
I have no issue with no cut events, I do have an issue that only the top players (who already make plenty of money) play in these events. There are plenty of struggling players who could benefit in knowing they can feed their families throughout the year
I have a bigger issue with the way the PGA tour has been working the last season and a bit.
1) no cut events – elite players being paid more for being elite. I have no problem with the best getting paid because they are the best but what about the others in the tour. For every elite player their are 2 players struggling to make a living. The up and coming players will be unable to compete.
2) if you have to play to earn, you are making it harder for the vast amount players who are the journeyman/up & coming/struggling to be able to continue in the game. How many weeks can a player continue to grind but get beat out on numbers in a field of 172 players and miss the cut before they have to give up because they spent 5k or so to get himself to an event, hotel and food, not make money before he has to give up playing.
Meanwhile the top tier players are being jet-set around and earning more money thanks to the no cut events. (I think if you have earned the tour card, that is you earning the right to be paid, so instead of being focused on if you are going to be able to eat this weekend at an event, you can be focused on your game.)
3) I think that the players at the bottom half should be paid a minimum living wage or have the tour fund their travel and lodging if they are unable to do so. If you have earned a tour card for a season and until you lose that card, you should be paid a wage that allows you to fight to keep your card.
My views on the matter. Feel free to discuss it further with me Mr Elliot.
Two comments although they vaselate Brooks" why should we go back"?( Don't go back Brooks your uncle Dick Groat would 've told em shove it!( I believe) They never appreciated you ! Another Phil" we're not going back"!! Phil wake up they will just pull same shit you go back!!
tiger woods gets 2 mill just to show up at events
If these events have less starters and have cuts they will be completed sooner so sponsors/ advertisers will be unhappy with the reduced coverage.
Would it be better if they added no cut events that only included certain tier players, but excluded the top tier?
PGA players in my eyes think they are better than LIV players?! What I do know is that LIV players look like they are having fun and they SMILE just about all the time! How come you are not addressing the dress code??? LIV golf has! Times change but not the PGA. B.A.D., Shot a "58" last week and a "61" the day before and PGA thinks they're better?!
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Isn't it ELEVATED events – not elevator events?