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Majors are Augusta, Valhalla, Troon, Pinehurst followed by a bunch of hyped limited field $20 million purse events, which includes a revamped Pebble event with only 2 courses being used.

A few things to look forward to for 2024, Tiger walked four rounds in the Hero and said he didn't feel pain. So I expect he will compete in all 4 majors, and 5-6 others . And of course the ongoing saga and drama that circles around the LIV circuit, and the proposed invesment/alliance with the Saudi PIF blood money.
On the Senior Circuit - Angel Cabrera returns after serving 2 years in an Argentine prison (let's see how he is received in Augusta)

 

Here is the schedule, stopping at the Tour Championship

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Date Tournament Venue Purse Defending Champion / Winner
Jan. 4-7 The Sentry Plantation Course
Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii
$20,000,000 Jon Rahm
Jan. 11-14 Sony Open in Hawaii Waialae Country Club
Honolulu, Hawaii
- Si Woo Kim
Jan. 18-21 The American Express Pete Dye Stadium Course
La Quinta, California
- Jon Rahm
Jan. 24-27 Farmers Insurance Open Torrey Pines Golf Course
San Diego, California
- Max Homa
Feb. 1-4 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Pebble Beach Golf Links
Pebble Beach, California
$20,000,000 Justin Rose
Feb. 8-11 WM Phoenix Open TPC Scottsdale
Scottsdale, Arizona
- Scottie Scheffler
Feb. 15-18 The Genesis Invitational Riviera Country Club
Pacific Palisades, California
$20,000,000 Jon Rahm
Feb. 22-25 Mexico Open at Vidanta Vidanta Vallarta
Vallarta, Mexico
- Tony Finau
Feb. 29 - March 3 The Classic in The Palm Beaches PGA National Resort
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
- Chris Kirk
March 7-10 Puerto Rico Open Grand Reserve GC
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico
- Nico Echavarria
March 7-10 Arnold Palmer Invitational Bay Hill Club & Lodge
Orlando, Florida
$20,000,000 Kurt Kitayama
March 14-17 The Players Championship TPC Sawgrass
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
- Scottie Scheffler
March 21-24 Valspar Championship Innisbrook Resort
Palm Harbor, Florida
- Taylor Moore
March 28-31 Texas Children’s Houston Open Memorial Park Golf Course
Houston, Texas
- Tony Finau
April 4-7 Valero Texas Open TPC San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
- Corey Conners
April 11-14 Masters Tournament Augusta National GC
Augusta, Georgia
- Jon Rahm
April 18-21 Corales Puntacana Championship Puntacana Resort & Club
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Matt Wallace
April 18-21 RBC Heritage Harbour Town Golf Links
Hilton Head, South Carolina
$20,000,000 Matt Fitzpatrick
April 25-28 Zurich Classic of New Orleans TPC Louisiana
Avondale, Louisiana
- Davis Riley/Nick Hardy
May 2-5 The CJ Cup Byron Nelson TPC Craig Ranch
McKinney, Texas
- Jason Day
May 9-12 Myrtle Beach Classic The Dunes Golf and Beach Club
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- Inaugural event
May 9-12 Wells Fargo Championship Quail Hollow Club
Charlotte, North Carolina
$20,000,000 Wyndham Clark
May 16-19 PGA Championship Valhalla Golf Club
Louisville, Kentucky
- Brooks Koepka
May 23-26 Charles Schwab Challenge Colonial Country Club
Fort Worth, Texas
- Emiliano Grillo
May 30 - June 2 RBC Canadian Open Hamilton Golf & CC
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Nick Taylor
June 6-9 Memorial Tournament Muirfield Village Golf Club
Dublin, Ohio
$20,000,000 Viktor Hovland
June 13-16 U.S. Open Pinehurst No. 2
Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina
- Wyndham Clark
June 20-23 Travelers Championship TPC River Highlands
Cromwell, Connecticut
$20,000,000 Keegan Bradley
June 27-30 Rocket Mortgage Classic Detroit Golf Club
Detroit, Michigan
- Rickie Fowler
July 4-7 John Deere Classic TPC Deere Run
Silvis, Illinois
- Sepp Straka
July 11-14 Genesis Scottish Open The Renaissance Club
North Berwick, Scotland
- Rory McIlroy
July 18-21 Barracuda Championship Tahoe Mountain Club
Truckee, California
- Akshay Bhatia
July 18-21 The Open Championship Royal Troon
Troon, Scotland
- Brian Harman
July 25-28 3M Open TPC Twin Cities
Blaine, Minnesota
- Lee Hodges
Aug. 1-4 Olympic Men’s Golf Competition Le Golf National
Paris, France
- Xander Schauffele
Aug. 8-11 Wyndham Championship Sedgefield Country Club
Greensboro, North Carolina
- Lucas Glover
Aug. 15-18 FedEx St. Jude Championship TPC Southwind
Memphis, Tennessee
$20,000,000 Lucas Glover
Aug. 22-25 BMW Championship Castle Pines Golf Club
Castle Rock, Colorado
$20,000,000 Viktor Hovland
Aug. 29 - Sept. 1 Tour Championship East Lake Golf Club
Atlanta, Georgia
- Viktor Hovland

 

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2 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

Golf is an extremely niche sport. The entire PGA tour thread for all of last year was 24 pages. It will be the same as it ever was.

This is very true, but there are also separate threads for each of the majors & the Ryder/Presidents cup. This is a niche board for orphan sports that don't have anywhere else to go (kinda like these guys)

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On 12/22/2023 at 6:49 PM, HouTex said:

My friends in the media business tell me that the PGA Tour is done.  They were horribly mismanaged.  I don’t really get the nuances but it does seem like they were asleep at the wheel. 

It appears absolutely done from my view. There are a few stars that want to be Tiger’s friend so they’ll stay as long as they can. Tiger will finish off his body trying to save the tour but I don’t think it’s enough.

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On 12/30/2023 at 7:01 PM, Revolution512 said:

It appears absolutely done from my view. There are a few stars that want to be Tiger’s friend so they’ll stay as long as they can. Tiger will finish off his body trying to save the tour but I don’t think it’s enough.

PGA tour is done how? The LIV event in bedminster, the last event that I could find ratings for, averaged 187,000 viewers for the final round on the CW. 

A WNBA game on ION network that weekend averaged 271,000. 

The final round of the St Jude tour that weekend averaged 3.2 million. 

The product is shit, and almost no one watches. 

The PGA tour isn’t dead, at all. All that happened is the PIF created LIV as a tool to buy a share of the PGA tour. Its cost them roughly 1.2 billion in “signing bonuses” and 400 million/year in prize money. 

Buying Rahm seems like a move to put pressure on the merger. 

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53 minutes ago, heso said:

Buying Rahm seems like a move to put pressure on the merger. 


That’s exactly what it was. The PGA was heavily considering scrapping the merger shit. So they found Rahm’s price, putting pressure on the PGA to stay on track. Rahm’s sees the writing on the wall, and decided there didn’t need to be two idiots in the transaction. He got the check and won’t really have to do jack shit for it, once the merger’s done. Win-win for him, really. 

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The 2024 Tour kicks off in a couple of hours:
First group on the tee - Morikawa, Xander & Tom Kim
Last group to tee off - Jordan, Scotty & Viktor 

If I had to pick 2 tee times to bet on to find the winner, those would be the 2

 

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On 1/3/2024 at 1:16 PM, heso said:

PGA tour is done how? The LIV event in bedminster, the last event that I could find ratings for, averaged 187,000 viewers for the final round on the CW. 

A WNBA game on ION network that weekend averaged 271,000. 

The final round of the St Jude tour that weekend averaged 3.2 million. 

The product is shit, and almost no one watches. 

The PGA tour isn’t dead, at all. All that happened is the PIF created LIV as a tool to buy a share of the PGA tour. Its cost them roughly 1.2 billion in “signing bonuses” and 400 million/year in prize money. 

Buying Rahm seems like a move to put pressure on the merger. 

They don’t come for a share lol

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I think he played great. He got extremely unlucky landing in a huge divot and his slight mishit off the tee box resulted in an extremely unlucky bunker lie. 
 

-27 and in 3rd… while making some solid putts and being in contention through 18 seems like a pretty good start of the season.

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30 minutes ago, Fico said:

I think he played great. He got extremely unlucky landing in a huge divot and his slight mishit off the tee box resulted in an extremely unlucky bunker lie. 
 

-27 and in 3rd… while making some solid putts and being in contention through 18 seems like a pretty good start of the season.


Yeah, even on a scoring course, that’s a good weekend for Jordan. Some weekends last year he would have been -7 or -8, and a few maybe even +1 or +2. (After making the cut.)

Top-10 ‘em to death and see what happens. 

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Tour average make under 10ft is like 20%. And Scottie is amazing on approach so he's going to have a lot of those putts. Him missing 15 isn't shocking - he probably had 40 attempts. 

Scottie under 10ft isn't really the issue anyways. It's Scottie under 5 ft that is the real head scratcher. And Kirk was just unconscious with the flat stick this week on top of it all.

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On 1/11/2024 at 8:37 PM, shakahorn said:

Odd that the Texas events aren't all back to back to back, or at least Nelson and Hogan aren't back to back.  When did this change?

Seems like the Colonial got jobbed with a bad date - playing after the top players are in the Wells Fargo ($20M purse) and the PGA Championship back to back weeks may lead to many skipping Ft Worth

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Damn he finished 3 clear. He's got a couple dogs behind him, though, and Schauffele is lurking. 

If an am was going to win this is a good opportunity for it. Extremely easy course and not a particularly jumbled leaderboard. He probably just needs to shoot 2 under or so today.

 

In other news, Rory wins his 2nd straight Dubai classic and 4th ever. He moves up to sole 14th on the Euro wins list with 17. It looks like Tiger is the only player with 20 wins on both tours (some of them count double, obviously), Rory will almost assuredly get there. 

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1 minute ago, pops said:

I don't think 2 gets it done for the kid today. Not at stadium. Hope he pulls it off, though,  cool story. 

Just depends on what Burns and JT do. I think there's a good chance -30 gets it done. 

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As impressive as it would be if he wins as an Am he’s still older than Jordan was when he got his first win. Also, why didn’t he turn pro after last year? Seems like he’s won pretty much everything already. 

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2 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

As impressive as it would be if he wins as an Am he’s still older than Jordan was when he got his first win.

I mean - I'm not sure how "impressive" it is - it's just a historical rarity. Is it that "impressive" when a rookie throws a no-hitter against a 38-90 team that's brought up a bunch of minor leaguers in late August?

I feel like it's a very cool accomplishment but at the end of the day - like you said - he's a very good 20 year old playing a crappy PGA tournament. There's more "impressive" golf feats that happen every season. 

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59 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

Unfortunately he wouldn’t get the 1st place purse for the Amex. 

Right but he isn't getting it either way.

Kid just doubled 7 to fall back to -26 and a tie for the lead. I'd expect someone else to win at this point. Those knees are starting to shake.

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