People talked: The PGA Tour seems to increase the fan experience and reduced the disputed show

Pebble beach, California – as part of the wave of new initiatives designed to improve the fan experience, the PGA tour is ready to break on slow play on the main road.

Wednesday Wednesday What the tour will present in March after the end of the fan survey, the executive identified four areas of interest – emitted improvements, competitive adjustments for players and on-site – which appear below significant overhaul.

“Everything is on the table,” said the main marketing and communication officer of PGA andy Weitz on Wednesday at a pebble beach. “So, in that spirit, we are looking at creating the best version of the Golf Tour.”

It is under the lowest pace of games, a multiple question that seemingly taken on the renovated interest of the last weeks due to 5 ½ hours during the swing west coast, popular introduction of 40 seconds and Proposal of CBS ‘Dottie peppers in the air That gender game was disregarded to everyone from the viewers to the viewer on his colleagues competitors.

And so the tour, after the 50,000 fan survey, which started in last summer, and now encourage it to enter the player, it is set to use various tools that hope to prohibit playing problems.

Already last year, there was a reduction in the size of the field, which, starting from 2026. year, a better distance with difficult times and less shares on the course should be created. But the tour will soon use a video preview center in their new production studios that should accelerate judgments. They will start testing – first at the level of the korn ferry tour, then a great tour – using a distance measurement device that could save time when the players are offline. (Rangefinders were used on the PGA Championship of 2021. years, but the impact made at the pace of the show because more than delays occur on greenery and baths in addition to detailed relatives.) They have created a three-player workgroup. will offer suggestions to the player’s advisory.

And, the first time the tour will take a “hard appearance” in the transparency of its Pacer Policy, including possible public reporting on the average walking time, as well as any violations and fines.

Pgau tours confirmed Wednesday to change the format for the tour championship could be implemented this summer.

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“I think now is really a moment to look at himself,” Tyler Dennis said, the Chief Officer for the Tour Competition. “I think the change is in the air.”

Even penalties, with tour, given the acceleration of the current process – beyond position, warnings, bad weather, the penalty space – to put pressure on Dawlers. It is possible that the tour could agree to players not only financially and competitively, but also statistically, with a potential decrease in FedExcup misdemeanor points.

The “way in which the tour operating with great field sizes has enabled a slower player to hide. They know how to encounter a block of road,” Gary Young, senior vice president of rules and competition. “Now, smaller fields, we can make these larger team intervals, and slow players can no longer hide. They will be exposed.”

There are several factors (field sizes, daylight, heavy tempo) that result in a high extent remained stagnant while other sports make focused efforts to accelerate the game to accelerate the change of viewing habits. The MLB presented an hour 2023. year that was circumcised about 30 minutes, and the NBA Commissioner Adam Silver suggested that the League could reduce the quarter of two hours to broadcast within two hours. The tour has said, overlooking the fan experience, more interested to improve the “flow” of the circle on the course, with less slowdown, than the cuts for a certain period of time.

The idea with the clock was floating as a possible solution on tour, especially because it was just one injury of 40 seconds Through four weeks of the new TGL simulatory league. Dennis pointed out that, although the tour already uses internal clock – ShotLink data that show the average time shot – he also would not exclude any more drastic suggestions.

“It’s one of the things we want this workgroup players look at the tempo game to talk,” Dennis said.

Other initiatives for fans that are in different phases of discussion or implementation include broadcasting, such as multiplayer / caddy talks, a larger diversity of shown shots, less intrusive sponsor activation and higher emphasis on the cut; release of new media regulations to allow for more in-site content to be made; And the experience of the upgrade tournament that could remind the asynchronous experience of Formula 1.

“I think we’ll look back in 2025. As an impact point in the evolution of the tour,” Dennis said.