{"id":327474,"date":"2025-12-04T16:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327474\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:04:04","slug":"new-pga-tour-schedule-billy-horschel-says-tour-will-be-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327474\/","title":{"rendered":"New PGA Tour Schedule: Billy Horschel Says Tour Will Be Stronger"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Billy Horschel<\/a>, a more slimmed-down PGA Tour<\/a> will produce a stronger product as players will need to perform better to make the cut.<\/p>\n

As chair of the PGA Tour’s new Future Competitions Committee, Tiger<\/a> Woods echoed new CEO Brian Rolapp’s new buzzwords<\/a> of parity, simplcity and scarcity as the cornerstones of impending changes.<\/p>\n

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It’s that ‘scarcity’ aspect, reducing the number of tournaments<\/a>, that may worry large portions of the membership, with that limiting the chances of those lower down the standings.<\/p>\n

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However, Horschel insists it won’t mean more of a closed shop, but says that players will just have to up their games to be part of the new PGA Tour.<\/a><\/p>\n

“If we reduce events or not, the PGA Tour is still going to be the PGA Tour,\u201d Horschel told Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIf you play well, you will still have a place out here. It means you\u2019re going to have to play better than previous times.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking it a closed shop and making it impossible to get to, that\u2019s not going to happen and that\u2019s not what the PGA Tour is about.”<\/p>\n

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Both Woods and Rolapp have been keen to point out the parity aspect of the PGA Tour is a big strength<\/a> – and Horschel insists there will still be opportunities for all even with a stripped down schedule.<\/p>\n

Opportunities, though, that can only be taken if players produce good enough golf – which the American thinks will make the new PGA Tour even stronger.<\/p>\n

“You’re going to have to play better golf to get to the PGA TOUR, and there’s nothing wrong with that in my opinion. It just makes it a stronger product.”@BillyHo_Golf weighs in on rumored changes down the road to the PGA TOUR schedule.\ud83d\udd0ahttps:\/\/t.co\/jaEmx6iBOH pic.twitter.com\/3QjtBPo0WEDecember 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI still believe opportunities will be part of the PGA Tour,” Horschel added. “Instead of shooting a 69, you\u2019re going to have to shoot a 66 now.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019re going to have to play better golf to get to the PGA Tour, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that in my opinion. It just makes it a stronger product.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horschel hasn’t been involved in any talks about the future, and has been sitting out most of the season following his surgery in June.<\/p>\n

“We could reduce events, we might not reduce events, I\u2019ve not been involved,” he insisted. “I\u2019ve stayed out of it, I\u2019ve been injured, so I don\u2019t know everything.”<\/p>\n

Horschel is playing the Hero World Challenge this week – looking for valuable Official World Golf Ranking points in order to secure his spot at The Masters in April.<\/p>\n

The former FedEx Cup champion is in 45th in the OWGR with the top 50 at the end of the year receiving an invite to Augusta National.<\/p>\n