CROMWELL, Conn. — The Travelers Championship, with a date that many people would think is among the worst on the PGA Tour calendar—the week after the U.S. Open—is a success story that commissioner Jay Monahan loves to discuss. He knows the tournament well, having graduated from Trinity College, which is just 11 miles away from TPC River Highlands in Hartford. But on a soggy Wednesday afternoon, Monahan was in the media center to talk about something else: the threat the LIV Golf Series poses to the PGA Tour and what the tour plans to do moving forward.
As it turns out, Monahan spoke for just over 40 minutes and outlined a new structure the PGA Tour plans to implement soon.
Here are five key takeaways from his news conference.
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FedEx Cup playoff season gets revised for 2023
Patrick Cantlay celebrates with Nikki Guidish and the FedEx Cup on the 18th green after winning during the final round of the 2021 Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. (Photo: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
At the end of this season, which concludes with the final round of the Wyndham Championship, the players ranked No. 125 and better on the FedEx Cup point list will qualify to compete in the first tournament of the FedEx Cup playoffs (the FedEx St. Jude Championship) and earn full exemptions on the PGA Tour for next season. But Wednesday, Monahan announced that the number would drop to 70 beginning in 2023.
There will still be three FedEx Cup playoff events, but the top 50 in the point standings will move on to the second round in 2023, and then the top 30 will advance to the Tour Championship after round two.
Golfers who fail to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs will need to earn their exemptions for the next season by playing in a series of events in the fall.
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The calendar-based season returns
Rory McIlroy celebrates with the trophy after winning the 2022 RBC Canadian Open at St. George’s Golf & Country Club in Etobicoke, Ontario. (Photo: Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)
Starting in the fall of 2013, the PGA Tour adopted a wraparound schedule that ended in the late summer of 2014, but Monahan announced Wednesday that the tour intends to return to a calendar-based season in 2024. That means the 2024 PGA Tour season will start in January and end in late August, making it more condensed.
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