PGL: What Could A World Tour Schedule Look Like?

Short of the PGA Tour and European Tour merging their lucrative World Golf Championships and Rolex Series events, and shedding ten events each to free up more money, the two major tours will continue to face wild swings in field quality. That’s because a year-round structure forces players to decide when to take breaks and when to use the Tour’s as springboards.

As Rory McIlroy alluded to down at Torrey Pines, the World Golf Group has seized on many vulnerabilities in the current models. One of those weaknesses: bloated schedules and excessive TV money distribution for lesser events.

While any schedule is fluid, scheduling has been one significant appeal of the Premier Golf League. Granted, putting something down on paper is one thing, actually lining things up in the way of quality venues and good fits with major sites, is an entirely different beast.

Here, as of a year ago according to my sources, was a proposed Premier schedule working around what they called the “sanctity” of the men’s major championships.

Again, as I originally reported, the dreams of an 18-event slate out of the chute seems less likely than ten events. But for the sake of pondering how this proposed Tour could succeed or force the current tours to rethink things, this is probably how most would draw up a world tour schedule.