Rex Hoggard

1 week ago | nbcsports.com | Rex Hoggard

DUBLIN, Ohio – While consensus is a victim of today’s polarized world, the PGA Tour’s much-anticipated overhaul of the Tour Championship was met with near-unanimous approval from players this week at the Memorial. Starting in August at this year’s season finale at East Lake in Atlanta, the circuit has scraped the starting-strokes format that began in 2019 for a more-traditional 72 holes of stroke play with everyone starting at even par.

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Rex Hoggard

DUBLIN, Ohio – While consensus is a victim of today’s polarized world, the PGA Tour’s much-anticipated overhaul of the Tour Championship was met with near-unanimous approval from players this week at the Memorial. Starting in August at this year’s season finale at East Lake in Atlanta, the circuit has scraped the starting-strokes format that began in 2019 for a more-traditional 72 holes of stroke play with everyone starting at even par.

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Rex Hoggard

DUBLIN, Ohio – The PGA Tour is reverting to a traditional stroke-play format for the Tour Championship, with players who qualify for the season finale starting the tournament at even par instead of the starting-strokes model that had been used since 2019. The Tour policy board approved the change Tuesday afternoon at Muirfield Village as part of a larger overhaul of the Tour Championship, which will include a greater focus on course setup at East Lake to create more risk-reward moments.

1 week ago | nbcsports.com | Rex Hoggard

DUBLIN, Ohio – When the field list for this week’s Memorial was released last Friday, there was one name that was conspicuous in its absence: Rory McIlroy. It’s not an outrageous surprise for a player to skip one of the circuit’s $20 million signature events considering how condensed the schedule has become around the majors.

2 weeks ago | nbcsports.com | Rex Hoggard

FORT WORTH, Texas – Last week’s PGA Championship was the final event in a five-week, seven-tournament test period that allowed players to use distance-measuring devices during competition rounds in an attempt to address pace of play on the PGA Tour, and the results from the experiment were mixed. “Honestly, not really,” Rickie Fowler said when asked if rangefinders helped pace of play. “In certain situations if you were off-line, it makes it a little easier.