Four more PGA Tour events will be granted elevated status for 2023, according to reports in the US.
Golfweek reports the Waste Management Phoenix Open, RBC Heritage, Wells Fargo Championship and Travelers Championship are the tournaments in question.
It means the total number of elevated events is now 13, with the game’s biggest players set to feature in each one.
Every event will have a purse of at least $20million, the result of sweeping changes to the PGA Tour structure announced by commissioner Jay Monahan in response to the threat posed by LIV Golf.
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Unlike the nine events announced previously, which include the PLAYERS, FedEx Cup events, Memorial and the Genesis and Arnold Palmer invitationals, the four due to be announced will be given enhanced status on a rotational basis with others.
“The elevated events won’t be the same in 2024,” one well-placed source reportedly told Golfweek.
“These events worked with a schedule that had already been announced.”
Monahan’s changes to the PGA Tour came as a result of the now-famous players’ meeting at the BMW Championship led by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
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