Three changes the PGA Tour need to make immediately to ensure the Tour Championship is better next year

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Now that the Tour Championship is over, the PGA must get back to the drawing board and improve its dwindling FedEx Cup product in time for the 2025 edition.

Scottie Scheffler isn’t a fan of the FedEx Cup format, and the final event at East Lake has also been questioned.

Golf Channel commentator Brandel Chamblee believes the Tour will change the FedEx Cup format, and The Golfing Gazette has named three alterations that must be made immediately.

FedEx Cup Playoffs must be separate

The FedEx Cup points list is an excellent way of deciding the PGA Tour 125 and Signature Events for the following season. Still, it should end after the final event of the regular season, the Wyndham Championship.

Continuing the standings into the playoffs causes the successful players to grow frustrated when their season’s work doesn’t land golf’s most prestigious prize, as has happened previously.

An option that should be considered is to start the playoffs with a clean slate and offer a different level of prize money compared to the regular season.

Strokes advantage must go

The current format, which sees the number one player start with a two-shot advantage, must go. It is, to some extent, an insult to the player who leads heading into the Tour Championship.

With a match-play event currently absent from the PGA Tour schedule, potentially looking to incorporate an element of golf’s most entertaining format into the Tour Championship would liven up the event’s current guise.

What’s more, offering a more accessible route into the latter stages could be an option to appease those players who are near the top of the playoff standings.

Venue change

As much as East Lake is a fantastic venue and has been for several years, a change is needed.

Before its renovations, the Atlanta course looked tired and needed a facelift. Nevertheless, the golfing public would probably welcome a fresh venue for the season-ending finale.

Bringing the Tour Championship to New York, Boston, or Los Angeles would undoubtedly generate some interest in conditions that would be far more manageable than the searing Georgia August heat.