Alternative PGA Tour Event Formats

[BreaksLeft]

Anyone tired of 72 hole stroke play events?  The Gold Digest site has a great article speculating on some alternatives.

If you were king of the world which alternative format would you introduce?  Personally, I would love to see an event limiting players to four or five clubs.

[iacas]

9 minutes ago, BreaksLeft said:

Anyone tired of 72 hole stroke play events?  The Gold Digest site has a great article speculating on some alternatives.

If you were king of the world which alternative format would you introduce?  Personally, I would love to see an event limiting players to four or five clubs.

I would, too, but the thing is… the PGA Tour players would have to want to do it, and the sponsors would have to want to do it, too.

Given that… I think the sponsors are perhaps not the biggest sticking point. The players likely consider anything like that too much of a "difference." They hate "luck" or anything that differentiates from what they're used to doing. That's why they are so eager to go to lift-clean-cheat when there's a threat of rain.

The only thing that gives me some hope is the addition of the two-man event, as an official PGA Tour event. That's cool, and got a lot of viewers (relative to what they would have expected), IIRC, last year.

[RussUK]

Didn't they trial a 6 hole night golf event on the European tour last year?

 

[Patch]

I'd like to see more elimination tournaments. Three days of cuts. On the last day there would only be 25% of the original field left. Maybe 20 or so players. 

I'd also like to see Monday, Tuesday qualifiers for the weekly tournaments. If the pro is not ranked in the top 50, they need to qualify to play in that week's tournament. 

Those female/male combined tournaments also sounds like an improvement. 

All of the above, and I still miss Shell's Wonderful World of Golf.  I still watch those matches on You Tube, and anywhere else I can find them. 

[The Recreational Golfer]

A long time ago four-ball tournaments were Tour features. It would be nice to see one again.

[RandyBobbitt]

Would like to see a return of the mixed team event, such as the old JCPenney Classic. Some of the pairings were interesting. Can't understand why the tournament failed to retain sponsors. 

Haven't seen the Skins Game in a few years. Did that go away as well?