Fans wanted a more difficult course. Here’s how PGA Tour is responding

This is the time of the year for the numbers. All types of ’em. Points of FedEx Cup. Ryder Cup rankings. 70 Top, 50 Top, Top 30. They are all numbers. But an important group of figures is overlooked as players players for positions in August. And the tour is looking to do something about it, making East Lake Golf Club play as much as he has ever had.

Remember Jay Monahan’s press conference from Mars in the player championship? Seven times different he mentioned “fan ahead”, initiative The tour has undertaken to push its product forward As you hear Fans. The tour surveyed more than 50,000 fans to hear which issues and improvements need as much as possible, descending into four main ways of change.

Among them: Adjustment of competition-any part that seems necessary-all-inclusive, and in many ways that directly target the tour championship with a long one.

But why?

When most of the 50,000 fans categorize your season’s ending championship as “needs work”, do you need a why? One answer would be TV ratings of what is supposed to be one of Jewels Crown’s Tour’s events, has come down to the level of most tourist events. Assessment 2.7 that the tournament made last year, for example, barely cleared what John Deere Classic did this summer. (One can expect that ratings must be raised automatically in 2025, but we will see.) After all: golf fans speak with their eyes, or their survey answers, and the tour has an interest in earning more eyes listening to those answers.

Out Start of hitting hit This rewarded the key players for their seasonal performance. In a classic competition, with 72 holes in the East Lake games. To make the word out the tournament team carved a “right” trade campaign, with an ode for Paula Abdul no lessRemembering viewers that the tournament begins with a playing field.

The tournament was asked by many of his survey respondents to make the Tour championship stay on the tournament as one of the most difficult tours to win, and thus FedEx Cup one of the most difficult prices to win. In other words, make it difficult to reach East Lake and make the Eastern Lake harsh when you get there. During the four rounds of last year, the 66-63-67-66 performance of Collin Morikawa would reach 22 under the first. Sahith Theegala shot 21 under. Scottie Scheffler, who benefited from 10 “initial strokes” still shot 20 under the money without them.

So how does the tournament protect against low results? The committee of its rules will tell us.

The players received some data last week in a monthly newsletter separated from the tournament. The East Lake will include a small portion of the changes to help push the winning result in the single digits under the par.

For beginners, PAR will be changed from 71 to 70 by turning 14th 14th hole backward in a long par-4. The 2024 Edition saw that the 14th played as a PAR-5 with 580 yards below Renovation of Andrew Green. The hole played 60 yards longer than in 2023, equalizing with an average of 4.33, the easiest result (to see) the property. A year ago, at 520 yards, it played at an average of 4,125, the most vivid of the 4th. In 2025, with her playing 530 yards, look for the 15th return to that 4th toughest area on the score card.

Like this, they have eliminated four strokes (according to par). But wait! There is more

The approximation in the eastern lake will also be shortened than ever before. Back in 2021, the tournament championship was played with approximately 2.5 inches on the ground. In two approximate weeks of the native lake will be cut about 3.5 inches, at least half a inches longer than the tournament has seen in the past. It is not the approximate length that the Memorial Tournament known with difficulties offers players, but it is near.

The green speeds in the eastern lake will also be fixed, slightly, so the placement surfaces run at a speed of 13.5 meters, rather than saying, only 13 meters, as was the case in 2021. A handful of other changes are being implemented in individual holes, such as the right road at 17 narrowing, or additional trees, or additional trees. Lakes’s aesthetics, rather than in competition.

Let’s be clear about one thing – that’s all very delicate. Become becomes an increasingly full of practice to challenge many the best players in the world. But rough extra thick, longer holes and visible greater greens? Will add up to SOMETHING In the results cards, boys sign a few weeks. Will it be enough to get the victory of single figures under it, rather than 22 under? We will wait and see. Meanwhile, pray for the wind.