Subject sizes and exemptions — with momentum constructing for a discount within the whole variety of exempt gamers — have been the primary subjects at Tuesday’s assembly of the PGA Tour’s Participant Advisory Council.
As first reported by Golfweek.com, the 16-player council met at Fortress Pines Golf Membership or through Zoom for these gamers who didn’t qualify for the season’s second playoff occasion, to proceed a dialogue that started earlier this summer time on area sizes.
The priority is that some full-field occasions wrestle to make cuts on Friday due to 144- or 156-player area sizes, which has prompted the circuit to contemplate shifting to 120-man fields in any respect full-field tournaments. Such a transfer would require the Tour to scale back the entire variety of exempt gamers.
There had been help for lowering some area sizes if these enjoying alternatives could possibly be changed by bigger fields at signature occasions, which could have minimal area sizes of 72 gamers beginning subsequent 12 months. That commerce off, nevertheless, appears to be a non-starter for Tour officers.
In keeping with one PAC member who requested anonymity, the Tour is contemplating lowering the variety of full exemptions from the earlier season’s FedExCup factors checklist (at present 125) in addition to the variety of exemptions from the Korn Ferry Tour (at present 30).
If authorized by the coverage board, the modifications could possibly be carried out as early as 2026. The 12 months’s ultimate coverage board assembly is scheduled for November on the RSM Traditional.
