There’s been a lot of change on the PGA Tour in recent years, and the biggest adjustments might go into place before the 2027 golf season kicks off.
New Tour CEO Brian Rolapp has promised significant change to various parts of the business and the sport itself. Thanks to PGA Tour veteran Harris English, we might have a much better idea of how those changes will be reflected in the 2027 schedule.
While the 2026 slate is set in stone, English revealed at the RSM Classic this week that a truncated schedule with a later start might be where the Tour lands in ’27.
According to English, the Tour schedule — which has typically started in mid-January — will be pushed back a month and begin after the NFL season ends.
“The talk of the Tour potentially starting after the Super Bowl I think is a pretty good thing because we can’t compete with football,” he told reporters at the RSM Classic, per Golfweek.com.
PGA Tour Schedule Might Look Drastically Different in 2027
In addition to the later start, English also let slip some pretty significant details. According to him, the Tour’s signature events might be going away — with a catch.
“I get that they want all the best players playing together more often, and I think that’s what they’re going to change down he road maybe in 2027 is have all the tournaments be equal and not have the eight elevated events. They’ll have 20, 22 events that are all the same. I think that’s a good model to have. That’s where you’ll see all the top players play every single event because you can’t really afford to take one off.”
What PGA Tour Schedule Change Could Look Like
It’s hard to overstate the sort of impact a shift like that might have. Take the PGA Tour 2026 schedule, for example. If the Tour started the week after the Super Bowl, that would mean opening with the WM Phoenix Open. That also means The Sony Open, The American Express and the Farmers Insurance Open (at Torrey Pines) — three Tour staples — would be gone. That doesn’t even include The Sentry, which was canceled due to course conditions at Kapalua in Hawaii.
To put it into more perspective, if you just played out the 22 tournaments from Phoenix on, you’d only get to the Travelers Championship, the week after the U.S. Open. Even if this new schedule doesn’t count the majors, it only gets to mid-summer. That means a lot of tournaments, including some longtime Tour stops, might be coming to an end.
Theoretically, the Tour could move some of those tournaments, depending on what it wants to do with the fall season or even the Korn Ferry Tour.
Regardless, this is very much in line with Rolapp’s promise from his first day on the job.
In creating the new Future Competition Committee, Rolapp promised “not incremental change (but) significant change,” pointing to three principles for success: competitive parity, scarcity and simplicity.
“(There will be a) focus on the tour’s top players to compete together more often in events that feel special for fans and feel special players,” he said in October.
This would certainly do that.
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