While the players will deliberate in a few months on their vote for PGA Tour Player of the Year, we aren’t waiting. It’s time to hand out some awards of our own, from the serious to the tragic to the comical.
The PGA Tour’s new matchplay format arrives in 2028. We simulated how this year’s Tour Championship would have played out under the new system, hole by hole.
Scottie Scheffler came from behind to win the Tour Championship and claim a second FedEx Cup title, capping a season he called “a big battle” and surpassing Tiger Woods on the career money list.
It only required about 10 minutes for Min Woo Lee’s hopes to take a nasty turn as Adam Scott emerged as Australia’s new great hope at golf’s insanely rich Tour Championship in Atlanta.
Now close to fully recovered from hand, foot and mouth disease, Scheffler is likely to display more of the game that enabled him to win the FedEx St Jude Championship two weeks ago by a season-high eight strokes.
Change is coming to the PGA Tour in 2028. However, the immediate present will look much the same, as evidenced by the 2027 schedule released overnight.
The PGA Tour has confirmed a major overhaul of its season finale from 2028, introducing a bifurcated schedule and a two-week match play Tour Championship for the top 32 players. Adam Scott, Rory McIlroy, Wyndham Clark and Alex Fitzpatrick share their reactions to the new format.
Tiger Woods has given a thumbs-up to the PGA Tour’s new format for its Tour Championship, which will feature a 32-man match play competition. PGA Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp announced overnight (Australian time) ahead of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta that the new season-ending format will begin in 2028, Read more…
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