Justin Thomas is one of the PGA Tour’s best and most popular players, so anything that he says should be listened to intently.
Thomas has enjoyed plenty of success on the PGA Tour throughout the years, with 16 wins to his name including two major championships.
The 32-year-old is a fierce supporter of the PGA Tour but that doesn’t mean that he wants everything to remain the same.
The American is pushing for numerous changes ahead of the 2026 season.
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Thomas has previously criticized the PGA Tour for not holding more events in big cities like New York, Boston and Chicago.
And now he’s reeled off some other suggestions for Brian Rolapp and his team to consider ahead of the new season.
Justin Thomas lists the changes he wants to the PGA Tour to make
Thomas clearly believes that the PGA Tour would benefit from making a few small changes moving forward.
During an appearance on the Trey Wingo Straight Facts Homie YouTube channel, Thomas responded when asked what specific changes he would like to see the PGA Tour make.
“That’s a good question,“ he said.
“I mean, in a perfect world, you would want to play in the locations with the most amount of fans. Obviously, the best golf courses.
“You know, I think that the field size thing, I think that there there’s a sweet spot there. I don’t know what it is. I think there’s something to be said for having cuts. I think it’s a huge part of our sport.
“But then again, I don’t think people understand how much better tournaments can flow with smaller fields in the flexibility of twosomes versus threesomes and twosomes being an hour faster per round than threesomes. There’s just a lot of factors that go into that.
“And, little things, like we play in California literally the only month of the year that it’s bad weather in California.
“There’s little things like that and, you know, I hate it because the beginning of the year is great and we love to do it but there’s something to be said about going against football.
“It’s the biggest sport in the world, and I mean, I freaking love golf, and I’m pretty sure if I could watch a day of football or a day at golf, I’m probably going to be predominantly football and switching back to the golf a little bit.
“It’s the biggest sport in the world, right? So I think finding a way to see how they cannot compete but coincide a little bit in the sense of just benefitting us, right?
“I think that there’s some version of that of just playing in the right places in the right times, going to Chicago, playing in Boston, New York, like some of the huge markets. The fans in the Chicago tournaments were always so big, and there’s some of the greatest golf courses that I know guys love going to.
“So I think some version of whatever that montage of stuff I just said put together would be great.“
What Brian Rolapp said about a potential 20-event PGA Tour schedule
Harris English let it slip last month that the PGA Tour are considering a new more condensed schedule in the future.
And in November, Brian Rolapp responded when asked whether he thinks a 20-event schedule could become reality.
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He said: “Nothing has been decided, and Harris’ comments have been getting a lot of attention, but Harris’ comments really reflect a lot of conversations that have been going on,“ Rolapp explained.
“If you dig deeper into what he said, it’s really not that complicated. If you are going to compete with Football in this country for media dollars and attention, it’s a really hard thing to do.
“The majority of golf is played in the summer and gets people’s attention, so looking at schedules to help optimize that calendar is certainly something we talk about.
The PGA Tour CEO continued: “If you go further upstream, what Harris is also referring to is, when I was on the job not too long, the first thing I decided to do was announce a new committee called the Future Competition Committee, which is chaired by Tiger Woods and is made up of a handful of players and some outside advisors, which is aimed at looking at the competitive product with the idea of how do we make it better for players and for fans and our partners?
“And these are the types of debates we’re having. How does the schedule look? How do you make bigger events? How do you actually stream them together in a season that you can understand?
“Part of professional golf’s issue is it has grown up as a series of events, that happened to be on television, as opposed to how do you actually take those events, making them meaningful in their own right, but cobble them together in a competitive model, including with a post-season that you would all understand whether you’re a golf fan or a sports fan.
“So, those are the questions we’re asking how to make bigger and better events, how to put them in the calendar where fans will watch more and how to put it in a competitive model that not only golf fans, but sports fans will embrace.
“Those are all the things we’re discussing. Nothing’s been decided, but that’s the committee’s job.“
Reading between the lines, it’s obvious to see that Rolapp and co. are keen to avoid a clash with the NFL season.
So don’t be surprised if the PGA Tour season starts after the Super Bowl from 2027 onwards, just like Justin Thomas suggested it should.
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