Peter Malnati says a raft of proposed changes to the PGA Tour will lead to a “better product” for players and fans.
On November 18, the PGA Tour’s Policy Board is set to vote on a number of proposals regarding changes to the circuit, which include reducing the maximum number of players in full-field events, decreasing players who retain their cards each season and the number of Korn Ferry Tour graduates, as well as changes to Monday qualifiers and the FedEx Cup points system.
The proposals, which came after a review of the 2024 landscape by the Player Advisory Council, hopes to create a “more competitive and compelling” circuit, with any changes not taking effect until 2026.
Malnati, who is one of the player representatives on the PGA Tour Policy Board, said the proposed changes – which looks set to pass at the mid-November vote according to GolfDigest – is going to be a good thing for the tour going forward.
Speaking in an interview with PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM, Malnati said the changes will create more clarity on what it means to have a PGA Tour card.
“I think the direction that they’re going is towards magnifying the value of having a PGA Tour card. That’s exactly in the discussions of what we’ve talked about,” he said.
“We’re going to have a rocky transition as you always do in times of change. But if you can fast forward two or three years into the future here when … the dust settles, if you’re a rookie on tour who just earned his PGA Tour card, you’re going to know what that means. It’s going to mean that you’re going to get to play 17 or 18 full-field events, four or five opposite-field events, and if you play well in those, you will have the opportunity to earn your way into signature events.
“As of right now, the membership of the tour is too big, our events are too big, and there are people at the bottom who are supposed to be fully exempt players on tour who don’t know the value of their tour card because they don’t know what they’re going to get in.
“So this changed about making the product of the PGA Tour better and it’s about making the quality of a PGA Tour card mean more for the athletes who earn one. That’s as simply as I can say it.”
Malnati said that after a “tumultuous” time for the PGA Tour and golf’s professional…
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