Cameron Smith plays a shot on the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass during the 2022 Players Championship.
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The PGA Tour is ready to start talking about 2023, finalizing its full 47-event schedule for the 2022-23 season and announcing changes to the FedEx Cup and massive portfolio increases go along with them.
The changes really start in Hawaii, the unofficial start of the season, when the Sentry Tournament of Champions purse rises to $15 million. Wasn’t that impressed? That’s $15 million spread across a limited field of, historically, 32-34 players. That mega-million payout structure continues during the West Coast swing. The Tour will give away $101.5 million in prize money over a six-week period beginning with the Genesis Invitational in mid-February and continuing with the WGC-Match Play in late March. It will include a whopping $25 million prize pool in the Players Championship.
How? The Tour reallocated funds to elevate specific events such as the Genesis Invitational, the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the WGC. In other words, scottie schefflerThe pockets would be even deeper under the new structure.
My colleague Dylan Dethier clearly outlined other notable schedule changes on Twitter:
Tournament directors and television announcers saw value in the saturday night finale for the January event. For years, the Farmers’ final round vied for attention with NFL championship weekend, and the event finally pulled out of that fight last year. That means we have Wednesday-Saturday golf at Torrey Pines again in 2023.
We will also see Congaree host an event next season. The South Carolina course hosted the Palmetto Championship in 2021 after the RBC Canadian Open was canceled due to the pandemic. congaree will host the 2022 CJ Cup in mid-October, just a few weeks into the new season.
A week later, the winner of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship will take home Tour status, $1.17 million and an invite to Augusta National. The Tour’s decision to ditch the WGC-HSBC Champions, which will not take place next season, means the BBC is moving up a notch. Its winner will get an invitation to play in the 2023 Masters.
Lastly, the 2023 FedEx Cup is up for a review. The Tour playoffs will follow the same three-tournament structure as this season, with the FedEx St. Jude Championship before the BMW Championship, which precedes the Tour Championship. However, the fields will look very different. Only 70 players will qualify for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, a far cry from the 125 who will participate this year. And of those 70, 50 will advance to the BMW Championship and then 30 to the Tour Championship. The 50 who arrive at Olympia Fields for the BMW are expected to take part in a series of international big-money events in the fall of 2023.
More details on those events will be shared later, but this will notably be the final season of the Tour (barring any unforeseen changes) with a full schedule beginning in September. Instead, the 2023-24 calendar will officially start in January and run through August. So folks, enjoy your final full schedule! It may be gone forever.
You can check the full schedule below.
The PGA Tour schedule for the 2022-23 season.
