{"id":273924,"date":"2025-11-20T17:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273924\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:05:16","slug":"pga-tour-veteran-says-pga-tour-season-could-soon-start-after-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273924\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour veteran says PGA Tour season could soon start after Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer cards.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller fields.<\/p>\n<p>And a potentially truncated schedule.<\/p>\n<p>To borrow a football phrase, Harris English notes, \u201cThe goal posts are moving a little bit.\u201d Fitting, too, since the PGA Tour\u2019s new commissioner, Brian Rolapp, came over from the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking of football, English revealed Wednesday ahead of the RSM Classic, the final tournament of the FedExCup Fall slate, that the PGA Tour season could start later \u2013 much later. There\u2019s talk, English says, of a post-Super Bowl start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think [that] is a pretty good thing,\u201d English said, \u201cbecause we can\u2019t really compete with football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, with the PGA Tour not getting going until mid-February, that cuts dates currently held by the Hawaii events and some of the tournaments on the West Coast swing. Two of English\u2019s five PGA Tour victories have come in January.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more, too. English added that signature events could be disappearing after next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s what they\u2019re going to change down the road, maybe in 2027, is have all the tournaments be equal, and not have the eight elevated events and the regular events,\u201d English said. \u201cThey\u2019ll have 20-22 events that are all the same. I think that\u2019s a good model to have. That\u2019s where you\u2019ll see all the top players play every single event because you can\u2019t really afford to take one off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"RSM Classic 2025: How to watch, tee times from PGA Tour\u2019s fall finale\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/pga-tour\/news\/rsm-classic-2025-how-to-watch-tee-times-from-pga-tours-fall-fina\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"The RSM Classic 2024 - Final Round\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763658316_79_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PGA Tour\u2019s FedExCup Fall season concludes at The RSM Classic. Here\u2019s how you can watch.<\/p>\n<p>So, then what happens to the fall? The PGA Tour added two new fall tournaments for 2026, in Austin, Texas, and Asheville, North Carolina, though there remains skepticism just how much the fall remains in the cards for a tour pushing to be more cutthroat and for more scarcity.<\/p>\n<p>English, 36, finished outside the top 50 in points last year, though he used last fall to solidify his place inside the Aon Next 10, also known as Nos. 51-60 in points, which came with spots in two signature events, at Pebble Beach and Torrey Pines, which replaced Riviera as host of the Genesis this year because of the Los Angeles fire devastation. English went on to make the Tour Championship, where he tied for 13th, before qualifying for his second Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n<p>This fall has looked decidedly different for English; the RSM Classic is just his second start since East Lake, first since the fall-opening Procore Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Still, English appreciates these fall stops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m putting my faith in the guys at the helm and having the direction of this tour to make it the best it can be,\u201d English said. \u201cTournaments like this, I don\u2019t want to see them go away because I know how much they mean to this community. A lot of these fall events, we go to a lot of places in the country that they don\u2019t get a whole lot of golf tournaments, and you can tap into a different fan base. I don\u2019t really want to see them go away, but I think they\u2019ll find a time and a place for some of those.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fewer cards. Smaller fields. 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