Running 2022 Golf Thread

Monahan comes out with a plan to keep the Tour elite home; asking the stars to play 20 tournaments, a dozen of which will have $20-$25 million purses. So Kapalua, Riviera, Bay Hill, Memorial, Match Play, the Players, up to 3 playoff events, four more "rotating elevated" events and three more events of a player's choosing. Plus the majors. The rotating events are intriguing -- will the Tour finally hook up the John Deere, Hilton Head, Valspar with all the big boys once in a while? Gotta think a lot of sponsors have been howling in the last few months.

Also announced is a guaranteed $500,000 for exempt players, against earnings. So if you win more you don't get that on top of it, but if you win less, the Tour will raise you up to $500k. Interesting since the mantra forever has been "you'll get nothing and like it" if you play poorly.

 

Also, $5,000 for travel expenses if you miss the cut. Don't know if that's included in the $500,000.

 

That's for non-exempt players. Monahan went all Oprah today: And you get an expense check! And YOU get an expense check!

 

Look, he had to. Because there are more defections likely coming Sunday night/Monday morning.

 

They're definitely coming, but the expense checks don't matter to the LIV class especially when they're getting eight figures or more up front. This was Monahan throwing bones to the rest of the tour while he knows full well the whole operation rests on not losing many more big names.