Keegan Bradley is seemingly delighted at one specific change the PGA Tour have made in the 2025 season.
Bradley has enjoyed a magnificent 2025 season on the PGA Tour, and as a result, he has a real chance of playing on the Ryder Cup team at Bethpage Black next month.
Numerous American PGA Tour players want Bradley on the Ryder Cup team, and that says a lot about how good he has been this season.
However, Bradley’s form has dipped on the PGA Tour over the past two months, with zero top-25s to his name in the last four events that he has played.
He will be desperate to finish the season strongly with good showings at Caves Valley this week and East Lake next week.
Bradley seems to be in a very good mood in Baltimore this week, and has opened up on how happy he is with one specific change made by the PGA Tour.
Keegan Bradley praises the PGA Tour for making a change in 2025
Earlier this year, it was announced that there would be a big change to the FedEx Cup Playoff format.
The Tour Championship at East Lake will now begin on an even playing field, with no starting strokes, as the points get reset after the BMW Championship.
As a result, Scheffler earned a $10 million bonus from leading the regular season FedEx Cup points list, as well as an $8 million bonus for leading the Comcast Business TOUR TOP 10.
Meanwhile, whoever is leading the points race after the BMW Championship will be handed a $5 million bonus – one that will most likely be headed Scheffler’s way again!
The winner of the Tour Championship as a standalone tournament will then be given a $10 million bonus.
And Bradley thinks the new format is ‘great’.
He said: “I think it’s great. I really like rewarding the regular season because it’s such a big sample size. Scottie Scheffler should be No. 1 and make more than all of us, it’s because he played the best, and I think this system here really shows that.
“The TOUR Championship has changed so much since I’ve been on TOUR, and this is certainly going to be pretty wild because someone is going to go in there and win the FedExCup in one week. I was talking to my caddie, this is the last week we’re going to talk about FedExCup because we’re truly going there at zero.
“It’s really interesting. I don’t know how it’s going to go, but I think it will be really exciting. Chances are the best players always seem to pop up in the biggest events. My guess is you’ll see those guys again.“
PGA Tour have a big problem they need to address urgently
Despite Bradley’s delight with the new format, the PGA Tour do have one big problem they need to address, after Rory McIlroy skipped the FedEx St. Jude Championship.
The only way of guaranteeing that the best players in the world compete in all of the Playoff events is to ensure that the points leader heading into the Tour Championship has some kind of advantage at East Lake.
It just doesn’t seem like that will happen, given the fact that the PGA Tour have just moved away from that system.
Perhaps a match-play format is the way to go, with the top 32 players seeded heading into the Tour Championship.
Something has to change, because the point of the FedEx Playoffs is surely for the PGA Tour to show off their very best players and show off their product.
It would be interesting to know what the players really think about the format behind the scenes.
Bradley is obviously a big fan of what the PGA Tour have done, but that doesn’t mean they can’t improve their product even further still.
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