
The field consists mainly of players who just made it through qualifying via the Korn Ferry Tour Finals and players who were knocked out of the FedEx Cup playoffs just weeks ago. The Fortinet Championship, formerly the Safeway Open, finds itself in an odd position. I think that’s exactly what we did, and that’s exactly what we’ll continue to do as long as we’re forced to continue to deal with this pandemic.Let’s hope you enjoyed the long offseason (*audience laughs*) because the PGA Tour starts its 2021-22 season this week.

“We recognize that we were going to need to learn to live with this and we were going to need to continue to make adjustments as we went forward. “We’re still not without our challenges and we’re still looking at those challenges day-to-day, market to market, and making the best decisions we can alongside community partners, health officials, and medical experts,” Monahan said.

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The Bermuda Championship will be played as a stand-alone event with full FedExCup points and an increase in the purse size.Īnd the PGA Tour will continue to deal with COVID. “Although it’s unfortunate to have to do so, we must ensure that we abide by the epidemic prevention policies of different markets which may cause inconvenience to the players and make tournament operations very challenging,” Monahan said. The 2021 WGC-HSBC Champions has been cancelled. “This is just the first step in a strategic alliance that we will continue to build on in the coming years,” Monahan said. The 2021-22 season will include for the first time three co-sanctioned events with the European Tour – the Barbasol Championship, Barracuda Championship and the Genesis Scottish Open will count in both the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings and the European Tour’s Race to Dubai. And I’ve operated that way every day of my life and I think that’s why, with the great team I have surrounded by me, we’re going to continue to grow this great Tour.” 2, someone is always going to try and take, compete and take something away from you. 1, there should be zero complacency to anything you do, and No.

“That’s what I have been focused on, that’s what I’ll continue to be focused on and I think in life you always have to be cognizant of, No. “I’m 100 percent focused on our business and excited to be here at the Tour Championship to complete this unbelievable season, to go into 2021-2022 with not only an incredibly strong schedule with great committed tournaments, but to be fully sponsored coming through a pandemic,” he said. When asked about the potential for a rogue league being established that could syphon away some of the game’s biggest stars, Monahan would only say his focus is on the PGA Tour and the alliance between the Tour and the European Tour.

A few of the fall events will have purse increases but the lion’s share of the new money will begin in 2022. 16 with the Fortinet Championship at Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, California. The roughly $633 million in comprehensive earnings up for grabs this coming season marks an 18 percent increase year over year. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said in his annual gathering with the media ahead of the Tour Championship, the FedEx Cup Playoffs finale, that official prize money will increase by approximately $35 million and the FedExCup and Comcast Business Tour top-10 bonus pools combined will grow by $15 million to $85 million. In March of 2020, the PGA Tour announced a new nine-year agreement with CBS Sports, NBC News and ESPN that would run from 2022 through 2030.
