The PGA Tour has decided to introduce new changes, which should be applied in 2024. These changes will include Limited Field No-Cut Events. Many are against this, but there are those golfers who think this is a great thing. Max Homa is one of those.
“I love the new changes. They’ve been made to make it easier and more fun for the fans, and not just a money grab by the top players.”– Homa said, as quoted by golfmonthly.com As a result of the changes and knowing the advantages this brings, Max Homa is very satisfied with them.
“I love the new changes. I could rant on this for awhile, which I might,” he said. “The reason I wanted to join the Player Advisory Council, which is what I’m on now, was on a bit last year, is because I think I do provide a unique perspective as, you know, in 2017, 2018 I guess I’ve just seen all kind of levels of professional golf between the Korn Ferry Tour and the PGA Tour.
And I believed in this back then and I believe in this now. I didn’t maybe see exactly what is being done. I’m not quite smart enough to have planned this one out. But the product is important. I think it’s easy to frame these changes as a way to put more money in the top players’ pockets.
But it has been made to make it easier and more fun for the fans. I know it’s low-hanging fruit to jump on, Oh, this is just a money grab. This is to make it better for the fans.”
Big stars matches
Matches between big stars could be one of the most exciting aspects of the tournament.
There will be a lot of happiness amongst the fans about this. “It is more opportunity for the top players to battle it out late on Sundays. Which, you look back at times of Phil and Tiger, the two best players growing up for me watching, and they had like maybe two real battles.
So we’re going to have more of that. We just had Scottie and Jon battle it out in Phoenix and that was awesome. Two of the three best players in the world going at it. So I think that’s great. I understand the sentiment you brought up about maybe the avenues getting smaller, but the prize is much larger.
So I’m not so sure I agree with the kind of negative connotation of that. The non-designated events are the same purses with, I mean, on paper, weaker fields. So financially that doesn’t change a whole lot. And there’s a lot of room for growth throughout that.
You can play your way into the designated events and go from playing an event for the exact same amount of money to playing it for significantly more amount of money with a two-week good golf stretch or a win or something like that. ”
