The PGA Tour has often come under fire over the years for not adapting and changing but for the 2026 season, they are finally doing something that Johnny Miller called for over a decade ago.
Changes to the PGA Tour can be debated until the cows come home as things like the amount of exemptions, cards, the divot rule and player media responsibilities all come into focus, among other things.
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Of course, the players, as well as the general public, have plenty of opinions on what needs to change.
But looking back at what two-time major winner Johnny Miller asked for in 2014, it looks like the PGA Tour have finally listened.
Johnny Miller’s PGA Tour wish to come true in 2026
The older generation of golfer can often have big opinions on the way the game should go.
Over the years, we’ve seen the likes of Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus, for example, be more than open in their suggestions for the PGA Tour.
However, when it comes to a change that two-time major winner Johnny Miller wanted implementing back in 2014, it looks like the TOUR have finally acted.
“I would keep the tour going a lot of the ways it has been going in the 90 percentile but one thing that would probably rattle the guys who hang on in the last places in the top 125, my theory is give the young guys and the guys coming up a better chance to get on TOUR,” Miller explained.
“Make it 100 exempt players every year and then fill it in with of course qualifying through the Dot Com tour and maybe other ways. And maybe also go back to the PGA Tour school which I really liked but we’d have to think about that one.
“But I would like to see more fresh blood and see more guys have a chance to get on TOUR and not stuck on all the mini tours because there’s no opportunity to break in.”
With the 100 card agenda firmly in place, it has seen an exciting finish to the end of the PGA Tour season as Miller also got his wish with 20 Korn Ferry Tour players sealing a card, while 10 DP World Tour performers, including Marco Penge, have also secured status.
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With the TOUR finally implementing this step and going for the top 100 as being guaranteed rather than the top 125, it does seem they are making things tougher for those who just do enough to hang around.
As Miller stated, this gives younger players and players from other tours a clearer pathway into the big leagues.
Indeed, Miller’s stance and what the tour have done now also resonates with Rory McIlroy, who suggested things be a touch more ‘cut throat’.
“I guess I haven’t thought about it that hard,” McIlroy said in 2024..
“I guess my thing is, I’m all for more cutthroat and more competitive and trying to give pathways to the younger generation. So, through Korn Ferry Tour, through PGA Tour U, I just feel like there’s a lot of categories on Tour that people are sort of still benefiting off what they did like five or 10 years ago.
“I feel like the most competitive professional golf tour in the world, you should have to come out and prove yourself year after year after year.”
With McIlroy and Miller’s wishes now sorted, it will be interesting to see what impact the younger players and DP World players have in 2026.
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