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According to the Sports Business Journal, Brian Rolapp revealed a proposed plan to players two weeks ago that would include two tiers of tournaments.
Philadelphia Cricket Club held the Truist Championship last year while regular host Quail Hollow had a major; the PGA Tour is reportedly considering Philadelphia as a new tournament city.
| Bill Streicher-Imagn ImagesTour CEO Brian Rolapp revealed a proposed plan to players at the Truist Championship two weeks ago that would include two tiers of tournaments. The first track would be 23 elevated events, with 16 regular-season tournaments, three FedEx Cup Playoff events and the four major championships. Currently, regular-season signature events have fields of 70 to 80 players and only three of the nine have a 36-hole cut.
However, that is expected to change under Rolapp’s vision, increasing to 120-man fields.
“Today, we have eight signature events,” Rolapp said. “We are effectively looking to at least double that number. Add the four majors, the Players Championship, our post-season, and the Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup, and you get to the 21- to 26-event range. To be clear, we will have a second track of PGA Tour tournaments, which will ladder up to those elevated events.
”Another change could be where events are contested. Rolapp has said he wants to bring the Tour to big markets. Apparently, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, Nashville and San Francisco are being considered. And for the new signature tournaments, the circuit eyes nearly $30M annually from potential title sponsors.
At the moment, 13 events, including majors, are confirmed on the schedule through May. The Florida swing, however, has not been finalized. Typically, the circuit plays four consecutive Florida events in March. Max Schreiber is a contributor to the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated, covering golf.
Before joining SI in October 2024, the Mahwah, N.J. , native, worked as an associate editor for the Golf Channel and wrote for RyderCup.com and FanSided. He is a multiplatform producer for Newsday and has a bachelor's in communications and journalism from Quinnipiac University. In his free time, you can find him doing anything regarding the Yankees, Giants, Knicks and Islanders.
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