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Movement has been promised by every potential competitor to the PGA Tour that has emerged over the last few years, but thus far, the only league that has done anything substantial is the one that currently has all the best players in the world. The PGA Tour has plans to implement big-money events for its top stars, who will receive guaranteed money for showing up no matter where they finish on the leaderboard, according to Golfweek.
This is tantamount to the current World Golf Championship events, except the money would ostensibly be guaranteed whether a player won or finished 50th. Also, the events would exclusively be held internationally.
The Tour intends to stage between four and six events annually outside of the United States, in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The series will begin in the fall of 2023 at the earliest, though possibly not until 2024. Details of the plan were confirmed to Golfweek by an industry executive familiar with the ongoing discussions. The executive requested anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
The PGA Tour has now made several moves (or implied future moves) to gird itself against the Premier Golf League and Super Golf League, both of which have emerged as candidates to loot the PGA Tour its most valuable assets, big-name golfers.
At the end of 2020, a strategic alliance was created with the European Tour that resulted in a co-sanctioned Scottish Open for 2022. The $40 million Player Impact Program was implemented earlier this season. It rewards players based on their popularity using a variety of measurable factors. The Players Championship purse was recently bolstered from $15 million to $20 million. The Tour also recently implemented a program in which players are given an extra $50,000 for playing at least 15 events in a given season.
And now this.
“I think with stuff like the Player Impact Program and…
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