Breaking Down the PGA Tour's New Structure
7/1/20261 hr 12 min
On this episode of The Fried Egg Golf Podcast, Andy Johnson and Joseph LaMagna discuss the PGA Tour's new competitive model, unveiled last week by Brian Rolapp and Tiger Woods. Andy first provides a general overview of the new structure that splits the Tour into two distinct "series," with promotion and relegation between them. Then, Joseph joins him for an in-depth breakdown of all the details before the two point out potential landmines that the Tour needs to fix before these plans go into play in 2028.
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Andy Johnson· Host0:14
[upbeat music] Welcome back to the Fried Egg Golf Podcast. I am your host, Andy Johnson. Uh, today I am joined by Joseph LaMagna, and we will be breaking down, uh, the big news in the golf world. This broke last week, shortly after we re- released our podcast breaking down the US Open with Trevor Immelman. The PGA Tour has announced a new competitive structure. So, uh, you might ask, what does that mean? You may have already, you know, known about this. You may have heard about this. But anyways, the PGA Tour will be kinda shaking up the structure of their tournaments, really, I think formalizing the direction that they are going in. Uh, and these changes will be made for the 2028 season. So Joseph and I are gonna bat, uh, around kind of the, the news of, uh,