We’ve seen the World Golf Championship model doesn’t work. “I don’t understand why it’s going to be 70-80. “Maybe now we can get some smarter people in the room and talk some sense into them,” he said of the players gaining majority control of the board for the first time with the announcement this week that Tiger Woods would get a new seat on the board. He continued to express his displeasure with the majority of the designated events being limited to field sizes ranging from 70-80 players starting next season. They’re going to do what they’re going to do.” “I’ve been out here long enough to know that it doesn’t matter. “It’s a waste of breath, a waste of time,” he said. Glover has expressed his concerns in the past to the powers-that-be at the PGA Tour, but he doesn’t bother to do so anymore. You finish 125 th on the best Tour in the world, and you’re in one elevated event, the Players. We’re touting ourselves as the best Tour in the world, so why wouldn’t you reward the best 125 guys and let them play in your biggest events. I don’t know if it is because they are outside the top 70 or they actually understand it’s kind of silly. “Some of the guys who were pushing for 70 are now backtracking a little bit. “It feels like the toothpaste is out of the tube,” Glover said. Open winner, was just warming up on the topic when he continued talking exclusively to Golfweek. That was the end of Glover’s press conference, who shot 66 at Sedgefield Country Club on Friday to jump into contention at the Wyndham Championship.īut Glover, the 43-year-old former U.S. I think it’s taken a lot of these last few tournaments of the regular season, a lot of that drama, and I just think it’s silly.” I think it’s silly that we’re playing 70 in these elevated events (next year). I think if you finish in the top 125, I don’t know why you don’t get to play next week. “It’s very contrived to me, the whole thing. When asked to describe the difference between this year’s top 70 advancing to the FedEx Cup Playoffs and the former model of 125, Glover didn’t hold back. Lucas Glover says the toothpaste is out of the tube, and the PGA Tour is trying to shove it back in with its latest moves.
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