Ryan Lavner and Rex Hoggard discuss the PGA Tour's renewed look at pace of play and what triggered the organization to try and solve an longstanding issue that has plagued some tournaments.
The Tour Championship was most recently adjusted in 2019 when it adopted the starting-strokes format.
The PGA Tour is taking a hard look at whether to allow rangefinders and publicize violations as part of a comprehensive study on pace of play and other enhancements to the game that have come out of a survey of 50,000 golf fans. Tour officials were purposely short on specifics Wednesday during a meeting with reporters on the “Fan Forward” initiative that Commissioner Jay Monahan announced a year ago. “I think as we roll the clock forward three, five, 10 years, we’re going to look back at 2025 as an inflection point in the evolution of the tour,” said Andy Weitz, the tour's chief marketing and communications officer.
PGA Tour executives confirmed Wednesday that a format change for the Tour Championship could be implemented as early as this summer.
Brandon Robinson-Thompson
Romain Langasque
Rafa Cabrera Bello
Adam Scott
Nick Taylor
Amy Yang
Ashleigh Buhai
Jasmine Suwannapura
