2025 PGA Tour | Syracusefan.com

2025 PGA Tour

OrangeXtreme

OrangeXtreme

The Mayor of Dewitt
Joined
Aug 15, 2011
Messages
259,676
Like
488,687
GU8vtreXIAAg51K
 
Looking over the schedule a few things jumped out to me.

1) I guess the "Wells Fargo" is now the Truist, and since Quail Hollow is the PGA Championship, it is replaced by Wissahickon in Philly... never heard of Wissahickon hopes its an interesting course. While continuity amongst courses is good for familiarity, as a fan I also want some changes too in prominent tournaments.

2) Talking about continuity. Same old, same old in the playoffs. Southwind, East Lake. Yawn. This would be like MLB only having 3 sites for the playoffs, and 2 of them always being the Big Owe in Montreal and the dull White Sox stadium. I understand FedEx is in Memphis, but Southwind was a low tier course on the tour for many year.

I don't know when the deal is up on East Lake, but I hope it ends soon. It would be great to rotate the final.

3) As for the major sites, and the 3 that rotate, it's a fairly strong year
- Oakmont and Portrush are amongst my couple of favourites in the US Open and Open rotations.
- Quail Hollow is OK I suppose, but there are more interesting on the PGA Championship rotation. Sometimes I find regular tour stop lack "allure" as majors.

4) Now played 2 of the courses on Tour
- Memorial Park in Houston was an inexpensive muni that I played in 2000 while working in Houston that was just OK. So surprised to see that it has been revamped upwards into a PGA tour tournament.
- Osprey Valley north of Toronto. Always highly respected as a upper-mid public course Toronto fee wise, not sure if it fits the stature of a St George or Hamilton. But its always interesting to see how pros play the course you are familiar with.

5) Once again the Canadian Open gets the worst weekly spot on the tour schedule - smack in the middle of 2 elevated events and one major. I have complained enough about that in the past, so I will leave it at that. It is what it is at this point.
 
Last edited:
On another point, it feels like the PGATour website has somehow become less user friendly, more difficult to read the last few years. For example the leaderboard.
 
jncuse said:
Looking over the schedule a few things jumped out to me.

1) I guess the "Wells Fargo" is now the Truist, and since Quail Hollow is the PGA Championship, it is replaced by Wissahickon in Philly... never heard of Wissahickon hopes its an interesting course. While continuity amongst courses is good for familiarity, as a fan I also want some changes too in prominent tournaments.

2) Talking about continuity. Same old, same old in the playoffs. Southwind, East Lake. Yawn. This would be like MLB only having 3 sites for the playoffs, and 2 of them always being the Big Owe in Montreal and the dull White Sox stadium. I understand FedEx is in Memphis, but Southwind was a low tier course on the tour for many year.

I don't know when the deal is up on East Lake, but I hope it ends soon. It would be great to rotate the final.

3) As for the major sites, and the 3 that rotate, it's a fairly strong year
- Oakmont and Portrush are amongst my couple of favourites in the US Open and Open rotations.
- Quail Hollow is OK I suppose, but there are more interesting on the PGA Championship rotation. Sometimes I find regular tour stop lack "allure" as majors.

4) Now played 2 of the courses on Tour
- Memorial Park in Houston was an inexpensive muni that I played in 2000 while working in Houston that was just OK. So surprised to see that it has been revamped upwards into a PGA tour tournament.
- Osprey Valley north of Toronto. Always highly respected as a upper-mid public course Toronto fee wise, not sure if it fits the stature of a St George or Hamilton. But its always interesting to see how pros play the course you are familiar with.

5) Once again the Canadian Open gets the worst weekly spot on the tour schedule - smack in the middle of 2 elevated events and one major. I have complained enough about that in the past, so I will leave it at that. It is what it is at this point.
Expand...
Wissahickon is the former Philly Cricket Club. Tillinghast design. Here's more:

www.golfdigest.com

The Philadelphia Cricket Club: Wissahickon

Philadelphia Cricket was Tillinghast’s home club in his early years as a golfer, so when he laid out a new course for the club in the early 1920s, he devoted special attention to it. Over the century, it aged. Greens shrank, bunkers eroded, trees grew (including one right through the roof of a...
www.golfdigest.com www.golfdigest.com
 
jncuse said:
On another point, it feels like the PGATour website has somehow become less user friendly, more difficult to read the last few years. For example the leaderboard.
Expand...
I use the Fox Sports app for PGA leaderboards
 
jncuse said:
Looking over the schedule a few things jumped out to me.

1) I guess the "Wells Fargo" is now the Truist, and since Quail Hollow is the PGA Championship, it is replaced by Wissahickon in Philly... never heard of Wissahickon hopes its an interesting course. While continuity amongst courses is good for familiarity, as a fan I also want some changes too in prominent tournaments.

2) Talking about continuity. Same old, same old in the playoffs. Southwind, East Lake. Yawn. This would be like MLB only having 3 sites for the playoffs, and 2 of them always being the Big Owe in Montreal and the dull White Sox stadium. I understand FedEx is in Memphis, but Southwind was a low tier course on the tour for many year.

I don't know when the deal is up on East Lake, but I hope it ends soon. It would be great to rotate the final.

3) As for the major sites, and the 3 that rotate, it's a fairly strong year
- Oakmont and Portrush are amongst my couple of favourites in the US Open and Open rotations.
- Quail Hollow is OK I suppose, but there are more interesting on the PGA Championship rotation. Sometimes I find regular tour stop lack "allure" as majors.

4) Now played 2 of the courses on Tour
- Memorial Park in Houston was an inexpensive muni that I played in 2000 while working in Houston that was just OK. So surprised to see that it has been revamped upwards into a PGA tour tournament.
- Osprey Valley north of Toronto. Always highly respected as a upper-mid public course Toronto fee wise, not sure if it fits the stature of a St George or Hamilton. But its always interesting to see how pros play the course you are familiar with.

5) Once again the Canadian Open gets the worst weekly spot on the tour schedule - smack in the middle of 2 elevated events and one major. I have complained enough about that in the past, so I will leave it at that. It is what it is at this point.
Expand...
I'm hoping to get out to Oakmont for the first time for the Open. It's been on my bucket list for years.
 
CuseTG2003 said:
Kevin Roy’s second season on the PGA Tour’s off to a good start. Made the cut and currently tied for 29th at the Sony Open after three rounds.
Expand...
Damn. Bogey bogey in first three holes. Down to T48. Come on Kev!!
 
Yikes, four straight bogies on the front. I jinxed him.

Looking forward to following Kevin this year. First year on tour’s so tough. Having a year under his belt and being familiar w/ courses should help significantly.
 
The new field and card rules starting in 2026, will make it tougher for Kevin Roy or any relative newcomer moving forward.

Tour event fields are dropping by 12 players.
Tour cards are dropping from 125 to 100. (conditional status groups below that basically move up by 25 spots)
Spots granted to Korn Ferry players drops from 30 to 20.
 
Kevin Roy shot 71-66 the first two days and is dancing with the cut line. There's a 3 course rotation and the cut is after Day 3.
 
kirbivore said:
Kevin Roy shot 71-66 the first two days and is dancing with the cut line. There's a 3 course rotation and the cut is after Day 3.
Expand...
Finished T18 in a strong field. Two made cuts = very good start to the season.
 
pattycuse said:
Initial reports are they’re heading to Torrey Pines for the Genesis…
Expand...

So they would then play Torrey Pines twice within a month... a regular event and a signature event. Not sure if they are planning to use North for the other event.

I know they are in a pickle and the logistics to prepare an event are significant. But this solution still seems a little lacking in ambition.
 

Similar threads

cliftonparksufan
JAB interview on PGA Tour radio today
Replies
7
Views
917
cliftonparksufan
cliftonparksufan
OrangeXtreme
    • Like
    • Don't Like
2025-26 All-ACC Team / All-Academic Team
2
Replies
41
Views
3K
OrangeXtreme
OrangeXtreme

Forum statistics

Threads
175,324
Messages
5,350,033
Members
6,233
Latest member
SUtoga

Online statistics

Members online
263
Guests online
13,764
Total visitors
14,027
Totals may include hidden visitors.


Top Bottom