Ryan Moore feels completely disillusioned with the way that the PGA Tour is being run right now.
A five-time PGA Tour winner, Ryan Moore has been a mainstay on the world’s best tour for two decades now.
However, the 43-year-old lost his fully exempt status after the 2024 season, when he finished 151st in the FedEx Cup standings.
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PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp has made sweeping changes since his appointment last year.
He has trimmed down field sizes and reduced the number of players who keep their card down to 100.
Rolapp hit the headlines by offering LIV players a route back to the PGA Tour last month as well.
However, Moore bemoaned another change he has noticed on the PGA Tour over the past year or so.
Seething Ryan Moore’s stunning PGA Tour rant
With five wins under his belt, Moore thought he would be getting more regular starts due to his past champion status.
The American was given entry to only four PGA Tour tournaments in 2025 and ended up playing in just one.
When speaking to Golfweek, Moore let rip at the PGA Tour for their lack of transparency.
“None of us know. Even the Tour doesn’t know at this point. They have no idea what they’re doing. They keep saying a lot of things that turn out to be very wrong,” Moore said.
“If you go back three or four years ago with the exact same status, I would have played in at least 12 tournaments, maybe as much as 14-15, with fall [events] and with opposites and all that kind of stuff. But certainly a solid 12 and I think I got in four last year.
“Everything they were telling us was that the past champions and those types of status should theoretically have been better this year because there’s less people with cards.
“I think missing through this whole process is they’ve taken away so many spots [in fields] that people that do have status have to play every tournament. There’s no like, ‘Well, I’ll just take the week off.’
“People just have to play way more because they’ve taken away so much.”
Is the PGA Tour really a meritocracy?
The PGA Tour have always prided themselves on being a meritocracy.
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However, there is a feeling that they are moving away from that by becoming more and more of a closed shop with every week that passes.
LIV have been ridiculed for taking the opposite route to the PGA Tour, by rewarding players with opportunities based on factors other than actual merit and skill.
Now the PGA Tour seems to be heading down a similar path, unfortunately.
Brooks Koepka being allowed back was an example of that and although he has won five major championships, why should he be allowed back on the PGA Tour immediately, having jumped ship to LIV just under four years ago?
Then there’s the added controversy of the PGA Tour offering special exemptions for players like Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler, purely because of their popularity with golf fans.
The PGA Tour are either a meritocracy or they aren’t, and Ryan Moore’s rant suggests that Rolapp and co. may have some big issues on their hands within the next couple of years.
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