Rory McIlroy celebrates with the trophy after winning the 2022 RBC Canadian Open at St. George’s Golf & Country Club in Etobicoke, Ontario. (Photo: Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)
Starting in the fall of 2013, the PGA Tour adopted a wraparound schedule that ended in the late summer of 2014, but Monahan announced Wednesday that the tour intends to return to a calendar-based season in 2024. That means the 2024 PGA Tour season will start in January and end in late August, making it more condensed.
The advantage of this system, especially for elite players, is golfers can enjoy an off-season and not worry about returning to action in a low FedEx Cup point position.
“Selfishly, for me, I would like an off-season,” Rory McIlroy said Wednesday. “I would like to not turn up in February and be 150th in the FedEx Cup point list because I just didn’t want to play in the fall and I wanted to take some time off and spend some time with my family.”
However, starting in 2023, golfers who make it to the second round of the FedEx Cup playoffs will also qualify for a new series of up to three international events held in the fall. These events are expected to be held in Asia, Europe and the Middle East and have purses in the range of $20 million each.
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