Why PGA Tour PLANS To Offer College Stars NEW Memberships..
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However long you thought the golf Feud was going to go on it’s going to be longer brace yourselves honest to God we’re not fear-mongering both sides keep finding newer fronts to challenge each other on the latest battlefield is Young golfers yes the PGA Tour is cooking up
Ways to recruit new Talent before livv gets its hands on them so today let’s talk about this new generation of Warriors shall we first up good news for college golfers NCAA has been facilitating young college golfers to get into that Pro Golf life since like well forever but only recently the PGA
Top Gun sat together and realized that they’re going to need to build easier roads if they want fresh talent to choose them over you guessed it livv golf so for the very first time in history the PGA Tour policy board had approved a direct way for college players and amateurs to become permanent
Members of the tour Yes you heard that right from college directly to permanently a PGA member now say what you will about the Saudi backed re Rebel league but it deserves credit for this display of uncharacteristic generosity from the tour in fact the tour has carved out not one but two paths for
Youngsters to make their way in and get to play alongside Legends the first is based on a clear-cut ranking system for seniors and the other is much broader giving more players a chance we’ll tell you about them both here’s the first path okay so this is simple the player
On the top of the leaderboard instantly becomes a PGA member this one is for college seniors which leaderboard we hear you ask well it’s the PGA Tour University velocity Global ranking see since 2020 the tour has been ranking with World Amateur Golf Ranking to give official PGA Tour University ranks to
College seniors sure the ranking system was there for quite a while but now this new partnership system will offer much more in other words now they mean business but what events are these college seniors getting points for NCAA di events PGA Tour tournaments and select d World Tour events are the ones
That count seniors take notes for the past 3 years the best performer in these events got access to Corn fairy tour and other teeny tiny PGA projects the players had to make their way up to the PGA themselves what has Chang now is that the top ranked player can become a
Real PGA Tour member just like that this plan is effective immediately which means the top player of the 2022 2023 season will get to play in the official PGA events right away these will sum up to 14 official events but there’s a big pothole here as well it turns out this
System might not be very long lasting because even the tour officials don’t know how long they’re going to keep it in fact they don’t even know if it will still be around in 2024 so yeah 2023 senior season players got lucky following up everybody gets something you keep hearing about the first ranked
Player but what about the others surely they get something too right right the players ranked two to five will get corn fairy tour memberships numbers 6 to 10 on the PGA tour university rankings will get conditional corn fairy memberships that’s not it though everybody who
Stands 6 to 20 on the ranks table gets memberships in PGA Canada and PGA Latino America is it just us or has the tour suddenly started to look like golf Oprah going you get a membership you get a membership we’re not complaining though moving on to the second route this one
Is for even younger college players freshman sophomores Juniors everybody gets a chance this is a new program called PGA Tour University accelerated all you need to do is earn 20 points in 3 years of NCAA eligibility and that’s it you have 20 points by the third year
Of Eligibility and you’re a member of the PGA Tour go say cheers to Tiger Woods but earning those 20 points isn’t as easy as it sounds there are quite a few accomplishments they’ll need on their belt to win them here’s your guide to making your way into the PGA through
This route make sure you win a National College Gold Award H Haskins Hogan or Nicholas di will do your goal should be achieving a really high career best ranking because that’s worth points too now while you’re at it win a DI golf tournament you’re almost there child all
You need now is to participate in a national team competition like the Walker cup or the Palmer cup the last thing you need is to make the cut for a PGA event or a major championship there you go now you’re all set have fun at the PGA tour door up next let’s see
Who’s got a chance let’s visit those college students and see who has got the sauce if we’re talking about the first route to the PGA Tour it looks like ludig abber might be the one because he’s currently at the top of the PGA university rankings he’s from Texas Tech
University in LC and is originally from Sweden his place at the top might be challenged by North Carolina’s Austin Greer Florida’s Fred Bondi and Texas A&M’s Sam Bennett because they’re following just close behind him still ludvig already seems confident about his future at the tour well from Sweden to
Lovik to possibly the PGA tour now that’s a journey right there okay let’s take a look at those whose position at the accelerated program looks good the top three over there are Michael thorb Json with 12 points in the lead he’s a Stanford Jr following close behind is Vanderbilt sophomore Gordon Sergeant
With 10 points and standing at third we have North Florida junor Nick Gabi with four points the these guys still have a long way to go but you can bet there’s going to be really tough competition now so choose your fighter from the top three carefully moving on who Among the
Stars today could make it giving Collegiate golfers direct Pathways to the tour makes you wonder if these youngsters have got it easy and look maybe they have and there’s nothing wrong with that if a talent can find a home right away rather than years of searching we think it’s a good thing but
If still you’ve got your reservations only the best most talented players can get membership how can we tell it’s easy the PGA Tour has revealed who among the current members would have made it if these new rules were implemented before 2020 if we’re talking about the first
Way the tour says only John ROM Colin morawa and zahi Fala would have finished number one in the PGA university rankings and come on now they’re exceptional aren’t they now as for the second program the tour says since 2010 only Patrick Klay Justin Thomas and Patrick Rogers would have made their way
Through this one there you go only players with that level of skill are going to pass this now let’s talk about what’s going on in the lib’s recruiting situation first up Norman has shifted the responsibility recently Greg Norman sat down in Australia and gave yet another press conference talking about
The League’s future in his homeland but of course the journalists wanted to know more about the potential new recruits in his ranks and once again he confirmed that he shifted this responsibility to his star players for example he said cam Smith and Mark lman were the ones
Talking to Adam Scott but why is this well because in all livv franchises the stars have Stakes this means they’re invested equally as Norman if no more in luring in players and making their franchises stronger this should also tell you how much the Saudi back league is relying upon the success of its
Franchises so yeah next year will be crucial for them coming up will there be more big names well Norman says yes but then again he’s not going to say no to this is he so remember to take his words with a grain of salt but yeah according
To Norman more players from the world’s top 10 top 20 and top 50 will be joining his League next year now is it the top 10 20 or 50 yes no this isn’t a joke the livv CEO literally said yes when he was asked this question the interesting
Thing he said was that many famous players deliberately wanted to sit this season out to see how it would turn out and now that they’ve seen the success they are knocking at their doors lastly is there competition with the PGA of course there’s competition with the PGA Tour but here we’re talking about
College recruits if you think the tour was clever for getting the college students interested allow us to tell you that they’re going to have a hard time livv is handing out guaranteed big money contracts to youngsters as we speak and they’re working only last year Eugenio
Chakera gave up his senior year and also a prospect of a PGA membership for a 3-year livv contract cont ract and he’s already made $4 million at livv at 22 so yeah it’s not only the big names the youngsters seem attracted to the rebel league as well well that is a wrap for
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