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PGA Championship moving to May in 2019

Started by Pink Jazz, August 10, 2017, 03:22:10 PM

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Pink Jazz

http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/20276694/pga-championship-moves-2019

It's official, the PGA Championship will be moving to May in 2019.  This in turn will move the Players Championship back to March.

I wonder how this will affect the "Pink Out" Sunday for the Players Championship now that it will no longer be played on Mother's Day weekend.  The PGA Championship will be played the week after Mother's Day from what I read.


SP Cook

The complete announcement will be about this time next year, but the PGA Tour is giving up on its attempt to compete with the NFL (attention:  Brian France:  do likewise) with a revamp of their schedule.  The new system will begin the next year's schedule in mid-September, and look something like this: 

Early September (every 4th year) Olympics.

Mid September  Ryder (USA v. Europe, even years) or President's (USA v. "not Europe". odd years)

Mid-September - Thanksgiving "Fall Series" - somewhat lighter field tournament held in places as far out of the NFL's shadow as possible (Greenbrier Classic is moving from July to October).  Most top players rest or pay for $$ in Asia.  Most European players return to Europe because the European Tour operates on a calendar year basis, the European PGA Championship, the best European event the American players do not travel in for, will move from May to September.

Late October - WGC China (last full field international event of the year)

Several "unofficial" events, including Wood's tournament in the Bahamas between Thanksgiving and
New Years.

January- resume tour in Hawaiil and then California-Arizona.
February - California, "Florida swing" - WGC Mexico
March - Players, Texas, Louisiana, Palmer's tournament in Florida, WGC Texas
April - Masters, tour works north, Nelson's tournament in Texas
May - PGA Championship , Texas
June -  US Open Texas, Nicklus' tournament in Ohio.
July -  Open Championship, Canadian Open, WGC Ohio
August - Fed Ex Cup playoffs - four weeks ending on Labor Day (last weekend before NFL). 

Thus we will se a Major every month from April-July, and another significant event every month March-August, with playoffs.  A short more "league like" structure with the serious part running March-August.  This is a good plan.

Pink Jazz

With the new schedule in effect this year, I'm surprised there hasn't been an announcement on what will be the future of the "Pink Out" for the Players Championship now that it is played in March.  This year the Sunday round will be on St. Patrick's Day, so will it be a "Green Out" this year?

Pink Jazz


NWI_Irish96

Quote from: SP Cook on August 11, 2017, 09:26:01 AM
(attention:  Brian France:  do likewise)

I've been thinking along the same lines.  However, to end the season by Labor Day, one of two things have to happen.
(1) Season has no long break and starts in December or (2) Season starts in October with an extended break in December-January

The first solution has a problem in finding enough warm weather locations to run in December-January.  Even Daytona, Texas and Las Vegas can get pretty cold then

The second solution has the problem of reducing the break between seasons when teams prepare for the upcoming season. 
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SP Cook

Quote from: cabiness42 on March 13, 2019, 10:33:57 AM

I've been thinking along the same lines.  However, to end the season by Labor Day, one of two things have to happen.
(1) Season has no long break and starts in December or (2) Season starts in October with an extended break in December-January

The first solution has a problem in finding enough warm weather locations to run in December-January.  Even Daytona, Texas and Las Vegas can get pretty cold then

The second solution has the problem of reducing the break between seasons when teams prepare for the upcoming season. 

A far simpler solution applies in NASCAR.  What worked before.  Before the idiocy of recent times, the season championship was truly determined by the season and was ONE measure of the who had the best year, along with wins, wins in the bigger races, and so on (huge analogy to golf).  So when NFL time came around, NASCAR accepted that it was going to get lower ratings and mostly stuck to the NASCAR heartland in the south, and simply accepted that it was not getting the attention it was previously. 

Start the season in February, end in November, but understand that the ginned up "chase" does not work.  Determine the champion based on points paid equally across all the races and STOP trying to engender interest during the NFL season with fake playoffs that no one takes seriously and which produce a random result in no way reflective of the best season.  Remember that when someone goes to their nearest speedway in the summer, WHO WON THE RACE, is important.  Who qualified for some idiotic playoffs months from now is not.

formulanone

Also, NASCAR's premier series had 29 races in the late-1980s. Not the 36+ we have now.

Buck87

Quote from: SP Cook on August 11, 2017, 09:26:01 AM
July -  Open Championship, Canadian Open, WGC Ohio

That ended up being moved to Memphis.

As a consolation, Firestone is getting a Champions Tour Major (Senior Players Championship) to replace the WGC.



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