Pebble Beach Pro-Am: 'Diminished' PGA Tour could scale back number of events says Rory McIlroy


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Published 29 January 2025 Rory McIlroy believes that golf fans could become "fatigued" by the wealth of options now available to them and suggested there are "definitely too many" events on the current PGA Tour schedule. The Northern Irish golfer, 35, has been a vocal critic of the breakaway LIV Golf circuit in the past, while he is a co-founder of the technology-led Tomorrow's Golf League (TGL) which is in its first season. With YouTube golf content also on the rise, the world number three admitted that the PGA Tour's more traditional offering has been "diminished" by the volume of competition from elsewhere and suggested following the lead of American football's NFL, which plays a 17-game regular season. "I can see when the golf consumer might get a little fatigued of everything that's available to them," McIlroy said. "So to scale it back a little bit and maybe have a little more scarcity in some of the stuff that we do, like the NFL, I think might not be a bad thing. "I think 47 or 50 tournaments a year is definitely too many."