You may have heard brief rumblings and team announcements, but chances are your understanding of TGL – the primetime golf league scheduled to debut on January 8, 2025 – is a little a fuzzy.
For those in contention for the 10 PGA Tour cards, especially those numbered 8-10, the difference between success and failure went far beyond mere prizemoney. For them, the next year of their professional lives was on the line.
A past winner of the Australian PGA and Open, 44-year-old Scott has revealed exclusively to Australian Golf Digest that he has opted to rest after a year in which he finished T-4 out of the PGA Tour’s best 30 golfers in the season-long standings.
The six player directors on the PGA Tour Policy Board, in conjunction with the 16 players making up the Player Advisory Council (PAC), have proposed sweeping changes to the tour that affect everything from field size to membership status to sponsor exemptions and Monday qualifying.
When asked a question about Adam Scott’s lack of a Presidents Cup victory ahead of Thursday’s opening sessions at Royal Montreal, Schauffele’s response appeared absent of sympathy.
Change comes with its own challenges, and Scott has done about as much tinkering as any player of his level. He says he’s gone through four sets of irons this year.
Adam Scott will enjoy a full-circle moment within his stellar golf career when he returns to the site of his PGA Tour debut, made 24 years ago, at this week’s BMW Championship at Denver’s Castle Pines course.
Cameron Davis is looking ahead to the majors and golf’s biggest events over the next 12 months after scraping through to the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship, where he can now play with house money in the finals series.
Three Australians progressed through the opening event of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs and into the BMW Championship, which also boosted their 2025 schedule of elite events.
Four Australians maintained their status on the PGA Tour for 2025, although none are certain to make it all the way through the playoffs to the season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta.
Australian Golf Digest
