PGA Tour Could Create "Feeder Tour" To Make Up Missed Tourneys

The PGA Tour is looking into the possibility of creating a "temporary feeder tour" due to tournaments lost from the coronavirus shutdown, according to Brentley Romine of GOLFCHANNEL.com. An email was sent by the Tour to members of its international tours -- the Mackenzie Tour (Canada), PGA Tour Latinoamerica and PGA Tour China -- "gauging interest in a potential U.S.-based replacement tour that would help make up for playing opportunities lost." The proposed idea "calls for approximately six 54-hole tournaments, each with 36-hole cuts, to be played from August to mid-October." The goal is for "two to three consecutive tournaments to be played in the same region." Members of those three aforementioned tours would "have first priority to enter." The email also states the “hope” is to have $100,000 purses for each event, adding the idea is “very much in the exploratory phase" (GOLFCHANNEL.com, 6/2).