Even though the 2025 PGA Tour season has only just begun in Maui, the attention of the golf world immediately turned to the Tour Championship — the final event of the year.
Gabby Herzig of The Athletic revealed on Friday that the tour aims to overhaul the Tour Championship into a bracket-style event, a stark departure from the “Starting Strokes” format currently utilized at East Lake. Her report also noted that officials are weighing both stroke play and match play as options while considering the possibility of players earning a “bye” based on their FedEx Cup positioning ahead of the season finale.
The current iteration of the format is
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