PGAT to change the TOUR Championship format for the 2025 season (Image via Imagn)
The format for the PGA Tour Championship has been criticized lately, and it could change as soon as this season. Thanks to Scottie Scheffler's impressive season, he started round one at -10. Others were staggered with slightly worse starting points, but the ones at the top started off with a significant advantage.
Scheffler ended up shooting -30 (-20 not counting his starting point) and won by four strokes. He defeated Collin Morikawa, but the latter had started at four-under. Scheffler was up by six to start, so Morikawa actually played slightly better, but the world number one won anyway.
That system could reportedly be replaced with a bracket-style system. Per The Athletic, the Tour is mulling making it a bracket with head-to-head matches. Instead of starting out with strokes lost, the top players would have byes.
