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61, 61 WEEKEND TO WIN THE RSM AND HIS PEERS ARE BLOWN AWAY BY THE TALENT AND AS MUCH AS ANYONE HE’S GENERATING HEAT AND CHATTER AND CONJECTURE ABOUT WHAT HE MIGHT BE CAPABLE OF IN THIS NEW YEAR. SENTRY, THE FIRST OF 36 REGULAR

SEASON TOURNAMENTS IN 2024, AND THE FIRST SIGNATURE EVENT. THERE ARE EIGHT WITH $20 MILLION PURSES, LIMITED FIELD BETWEEN 70 AND 80. TOP 70 AT THE END OF THE REGULAR SEASON WILL REACH THE FEDEXCUP PLAYOFFS. AND THE REMAINING PGA TOUR CORDS, UP TO 125, DECIDED AT THE

END OF THE FEDEXCUP FALL. HERE ARE THE EIGHT SIGNATURE EVENTS AFTER THE SENTRY, AT&T, PEBBLE BEACH PRO-AM GETTING A SIGNIFICANT MAKEOVER WITH ONLY LIMITED CELEBRITIES AND NO AMATEURS AT ALL ON THE WEEKEND. GENESIS AT RIVIERA WITH TIGER, THAT COURSE AMONG THE BEST TOURNAMENTS OF THE YEAR.

RAHM WILL NOT BE THERE TO DEFEND. ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL PRESENTED BY MASTERCARD, PART OF A BIG TWO WEEK RUN WITH THE PLAYERS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE MASTERS ROLLS INTO HARBOUR TOWN, WELLS FARGO EARLY MAY INTO THE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP IN VALHALLA. MEMORIAL EARLY JUNE, RIGHT TO

PINEHURST FOR THE U.S. OPEN AND THEN IT IS THE TRAVELERS IN HARTFORD. ALL OF THOSE BIG EVENTS YOU CAN SEE PLAYERS WILL BE RAMPING UP FOR THOSE HUGE TWO AND THREE-WEEK CHUNKS. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE NEW PARADIGM? >> THIS WAS GOING TO BE OUR

RESET SEASON IN A WAY. WE WOULD GET BACK TO THE CALENDAR YEAR SCHEDULE. AND IT WAS MORE THAN PRACTICAL. IT WASN’T JUST A MATTER OF DATES. IT WAS PHILOSOPHICAL AS WELL. THIS WAS GOING TO BE THE YEAR WHERE THE PRODUCT SURPASSED THE POLITICS.

AND WE WERE GOING TO BE BACK TO KNOWING WHERE THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE WORLD WERE GOING TO BE, THERE WAS GOING TO BE A FAMILIARITY TO IT THAT SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN LOST OVER THE YEARS AND WHILE WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A

LOT OF THOSE ELEMENTS THAT THE AMBITION BEHIND THIS NEW OPENING DAY SCHEDULE WAS MOTIVATED BY, THERE IS STILL A GREAT DEAL OF UNCERTAINTY BECAUSE THIS MIGHT NOT BE WHAT THE SCHEDULE LOOKS LIKE GOING FORWARD. THE NEGOTIATIONS THAT ARE CURRENTLY HAPPENING NOW BETWEEN

THE PGA TOUR, BETWEEN THE PUBLIC INVESTMENT FUND OF SAUDI ARABIA IS GOING TO DETERMINE WHAT THE SCHEDULE IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE. IT IS GOING TO HAVE TEAM GOLF. IT IS GOING TO HAVE GLOBAL STOPS WHERE EVERY STAKEHOLDER HAS TO BE TOUCHED ON THE HEAD AS THIS

TOUR MOVES AROUND THE WORLD. AND WE WILL HAVE THE GREAT EVENTS. WE WILL HAVE THE GREAT PGA TOUR EVENTS, THE SIGNATURE EVENTS, BUT THIS ISN’T WHAT THE SCHEDULE IS LIKELY TO LOOK LIKE. HOW LONG IT TAKES TO GET TO THE NEW SCHEDULE COULD BE A COUPLE

OF YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, IT SEEMS VERY TEMPORARY. IT IS WELCOME, BUT THERE IS STILL A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY. >> NO DOUBT IT WILL BE FRENETIC, DRAMA-PACKED, IT IS GOING TO BE UNPRECEDENTED IN THE HISTORY OF THE PGA TOUR AND TO YOUR POINT,

THIS MAY BE A ONE OFF WITH SO MANY QUESTIONS LEFT UNANSWERED WHAT 2025 MAY WELL LOOK LIKE. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS SCHEDULE, IN CONTRAST TO PAST YEARS, WHERE YOU SORT OF BUILD TO A MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP, FOUR TIMES A YEAR YOU’RE BUILDING, MAYBE TO THE

PLAYERS AS WELL, CERTAINLY TO THE FEDEXCUP FINALE, BUT YOU NOW HAVE ALL OF THESE CRESCENDOS, EIGHT DIFFERENT TIMES YOU GO TO THE SIGNATURE EVENTS, THE BIG QUESTION IS HOW ARE THE EVENTS IN BETWEEN THESE SIGNATURE EVENTS GOING TO BE DIMINISHED? WILL THEY BE DIMINISHED?

YOU ADD UP THE SIGNATURE EVENTS WITH THE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP, FEDEXCUP PLAYOFF EVENTS YOU GOT 16, MAYBE THROW IN THE OLYMPICS, 17. PLAYERS WILL PLAY 20, 25 EVENTS. I DON’T REALLY THINK THE EVENTS THAT ARE FALLING IN BETWEEN THESE SIGNATURE EVENTS ARE GOING

TO BE AS DIMINISHED AS PEOPLE THINK, AND I THINK THEY WILL BE DRAMA-PACKED BECAUSE THERE WILL BE DRAMA AS TO WHO IS GOING TO JUMP INTO IT, AND WHO IS GOING TO PLAY WELL INTO THE SIGNATURE EVENTS. BUT OVERALL YOU HAVE ALL THESE

LITTLE CRESCENDOS, ALL THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND THEN THE BIG QUESTIONS ARE, YOU TALKED ABOUT THIS EARLIER TODAY, EAMON, WHAT KIND OF ATTRITION RATE WILL THERE BE IN THE TOP 50? THAT’S VERY IMPORTANT TO THE PLAYERS. >> THERE ARE TWO HUGE QUESTIONS THAT THE SEASON IS GOING TO

ANSWER AND HOW THOSE IN BETWEEN EVENTS WORK IN TERMS OF ELEVATING THE HOT HANDS, THE YOUNG TALENT COMING UP. THE OTHER ONE IS HOW MUCH CHURN THERE IS IN THE TOP 50 WHO ARE BLESSED WITH THEIR APPEARANCE IN ALL OF THESE SIGNATURE EVENTS.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR A LOT OF THE TOUR MEMBERSHIP AND I THINK FOR THE TOUR EXECUTIVES WILL BE IN AS WELL, BUT THAT NOT BE A CLOSED ECOSYSTEM, IT THE NOT SELF-PERPETUATING, YOU CONTINUE TO GET REWARDS AND POINTS FOR BEING IN A LIMITED

FIELD NO CUT EVENT YOU DON’T HAVE TO QUALIFY FOR DURING THE COURSE OF THE YEAR AND THAT’S ENOUGH TO KEEP YOU IN FOR NEXT YEAR. AND THE TOUR HAS PROJECTED A 36% CHURN RATE. THIS MIGHT BE THE ONLY AREA OF GOLF WHERE WE CAN SAY THERE IS

NOT ENOUGH TURMOIL, WE NEED MORE TURMOIL IN THAT TOP 50. >> THAT’S RIGHT. YOU LOOK AT IT AND THOUGHT 10%, THAT WOULDN’T BE ENOUGH. THAT WOULD BE 5. 36%, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 15 AND 20 PLAYERS JUST TO ILLUSTRATE THE

POINT THAT IT IS NOT A CLOSED JOB, IT IS A COMPETITION. IF THAT’S THE CASE, I DON’T REALLY KNOW WHERE THE CRITICISM WILL FALL ABOUT THIS YEAR. >> SO THERE SHOULD BE SOME DRAMA IN THOSE EVENTS THAT ARE NOT SIGNATURE TOURNAMENTS, CORRECT? THEY CALL IT THE SWING FIVE.

SO THE TOP FIVE IN FEDEXCUP POINTS IN THAT CLUSTER OF WHAT WOULD BE TWO OR THREE TOURNAMENTS BETWEEN THE SIGNATURE EVENTS WHO ARE NOT OTHERWISE QUALIFIED WOULD PUNCH THEIR TICKET. SO THERE COULD BE SIGNIFICANT DRAMA, YOU KNOW, SUNDAY OF THOSE TOURNAMENTS.

>> 100% THERE WILL BE. ONLY THE TOP 50 GET INTO THE SIGNATURE EVENT. SO WE’RE TALKING ABOUT STARS AND SOME SUPERSTAR PLAYERS THAT ARE GOING TO SHOW UP IN THE SIGNATURE EVENTS, BUT THAT’S NOT TO SAY THAT THE BIGGEST NAMES ARE NOT STILL GOING TO PLAY.

I JUST TOOK A LOOK AT THE FIELD AT THE AMERICAN EXPRESS, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER IS PLAYING, XANDER SCHAUFFELE, PATRICK CANTLAY, TONY FINAU IS PLAYING. THE 16 EVENTS IS GOING TO FALL WELL SHORT OF WHAT THE PLAYERS WOULD LIKE TO PLAY. SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF

22, 23, 24 EVENTS. >> YOU BUY ALL THAT? SUPERSTARS PLAYING LOW 20s THEREABOUTS SO THEY’LL SPRINKLE THEIR WAY ACROSS THE OTHER TOURNAMENTS THAT ARE NOT SIGNATURE? >> THEY WILL AND I THINK THAT’S A LOT OF WHAT THE NEGOTIATIONS THAT ARE GOING ON RIGHT NOW ARE

FOCUSED ON BECAUSE THE BEST PLAYERS ARE GOING TO PLAY 24 TO 26 TIMES A YEAR. AND THE FUTURE OF THIS GAME IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE WHAT CAN THEY FIT INTO THAT 24, 26. THOSE EVENTS THAT WILL NOT SUFFER RIGHT NOW MIGHT FIND THE

SLEDDING A LITTLE ROUGHER A COUPLE OF YEARS DOWN THE ROAD IF THERE ARE OTHER OBLIGATIONS AND ASKS BEING MADE OF THE ELITE PLAYERS. I DO THINK IT IS GOING TO BE A REALLY INTERESTING AND EXCITING INTERIM PERIOD BETWEEN THOSE SIGNATURE EVENTS THIS YEAR,

BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT AT STAKE. THE ENTITLEMENT OF THE GUYS WHO EARNED THAT PLACE IN THE TOP 50, THE REST OF IT IS THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE GUYS WHO WANT TO JOIN THEM. >> A PRETTY BIG DISPARITY FEDEXCUP POINTS, 700 TO THE

WINNER THIS WEEK AND ALL THE SIGNATURE EVENTS, 500 FOR ANOTHER TOURNAMENT, LIKE THE WASTE MANAGEMENT PHOENIX OPEN. >> AND THAT’S ANOTHER ISSUE THE TOUR MIGHT FACE, ADDRESSING WITH THE MEMBERSHIP THIS YEAR. THE WORLD GOLF RANKINGS DECIDED THE BOTTOM 15% IN LIMITED FIELD

NO CUT EVENTS WILL NOT GET WORLD RANKING POINTS. YOU HAVE TO BE MEASURED AGAINST THE FIELD THAT WEEK IN TERMS OF YOUR PERFORMANCE. IF YOU’RE COLLECTING POINTS BY ALMOST A LIV PLAYER AT THE BOTTOM OF THE FIELD AND COLLECTING A BIG CHECK EVERY

WEEK OR COLLECTING POINTS, THAT’S NOT GOING TO SIT WELL WITH THE BROADER MEMBERSHIP IN TERMS OF HAVING TH