Starting The PGA Tour Season In October?!

Almost as inexplicable as the PGA Tour's free marketeer's desire to make Q-School a Nationwide Tour-only affair and shut off an avenue to the tour is the purported eagerness to start the next season in October.

John Feinstein explains the potential consequences of the obsession with "growth" gone awry.

Less publicized but equally radical is that after the FedEx Cup and the three-tournament series are complete, there will be a short break and then the 2014 season will begin--in October 2013. The four current fall events will now be part of the FedEx Cup regular season, with the tour hoping to have as many as six tournaments since sponsors are more likely to be found for events that now might be more likely to include marquee players. (One potential issue is the Masters. Currently, Fall Finish winners don't get invitations. Augusta National chairman Billy Payne said last April the club would like to see the field get smaller not bigger.)