Okay, so I’ve been following the PGA Tour pretty closely, especially with all this talk about the Tour Championship format. It’s a bit of a mess, honestly. Scottie Scheffler, that guy’s a machine, right? He’s been voicing his issues with how they set up the Tour Championship, and I gotta say, I’m with him on this one.
First off, I started digging into how this whole thing works. They’ve been doing this staggered-start thing since 2019. So basically, the players get a head start based on their FedEx Cup points. The top dog starts at 10 under par, and it goes down from there. The guys at the bottom of the 30-man list? They start at even par. I mean, it’s like a handicap in a regular Sunday game, but this is the championship!
- I spent a good chunk of time reading up on past tournaments, and it’s always the same story.
- Then I started looking at who’s saying what.
- McIlroy, the Northern Irish golfer, he’s in it, starting at 7 under.
I noticed Scottie Scheffler even withdrew from The American Express. I guess he wanted to focus on the big one. Also, I heard that they are trying to change the format into a bracket-style. Maybe this is a good thing.
I mean, if you’re starting way behind, it’s gotta be rough. Scheffler will start at 10 under this year. Hovland is right behind him at 8 under. Then there’s McIlroy at 7 under. It feels a bit unfair to the other guys, even if they earned those points. Even Keegan Bradley called the current format “clunky”.
So, I started thinking, what if they did it differently? Maybe a regular tournament format for the Championship? It would be a real shootout then, wouldn’t it?
Anyway, I’ve been jotting down all these thoughts and following the news. It’s a real head-scratcher, this format. I’ll keep watching and see how it all plays out. But for now, I’m with Scheffler – something’s gotta change.
