The PGA Tour’s Participant Advisory Committee could have a number of the recreation’s greatest stars on it in 2025.
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The PGA Tour’s Participant Advisory Council could have some acquainted (and a few recent) faces on it for the 2025 season.
The Tour introduced the 16 gamers who will make up the PAC on Tuesday. The checklist, which attracts from execs in several sections of the earlier yr’s FedEx Cup standings, contains some top-level gamers who’re returning for one more season on the PAC in addition to 4 first-timers. The PAC advises the PGA Tour Coverage Board and commissioner Jay Monahan on points affecting the Tour. Final yr, the PAC made a number of suggestions that included optimizing discipline sizes, adjusting the allocation of FedEx Cup factors, and altering the eligibility system for the PGA Tour.
Listed here are the golfers on this yr’s PAC:
- Scottie Scheffler
- Justin Thomas
- Rickie Fowler
- Max Homa
- Sam Burns
- Brian Harman
- Gary Woodland
- Brandt Snedeker
- Kevin Kisner
- Charley Hoffman
- Maverick McNealy
- Keith Mitchell
- Seamus Energy
- Max McGreavy
- Eric Cole
- Trevor Cone
Cone, Cole, McGreavy, and Woodland are serving on the PAC for the primary time of their careers. Scheffler, Thomas, Burns, Homa, Harman, Energy, McNealy, and Mitchell return from final yr’s PAC.
Nick Hardy, Mackenzie Hughes, Lanto Griffin, Adam Schenk, Nick Taylor, Kevin Streelman, Josh Teater, and Camilo Villegas didn’t return after serving on it final yr. Villegas is now a participant director on the coverage board.
The PAC will elect a boss at a later date.
The information comes on the identical day that Thomas despatched a letter to fellow gamers asking them to be extra open to serving to the media by giving extra entry and perception. That features mid-round interviews, being mic’d up for a spherical, and many others.
“The extra I’ve watched documentaries and specials on streaming companies on different sports activities, the extra I’ve come to appreciate the primary motive I like them a lot is the entry they supply and the perception the gamers are giving me; a fan of them and their craft,” Thomas wrote. “I had no real interest in rooting for sure gamers, groups, coaches earlier than watching a handful of reveals and video games. However the best way a few of them present their playing cards and the way they go about the whole lot makes me a fair greater fan.
“I’m positive many people really feel the telecasts will be higher so let’s assist them try this.”
Thomas has beforehand been against being mic’d up throughout a spherical however has modified his tune on that. He wore an earpiece in the course of the second spherical of the 2023 Masters and has executed walk-and-talks heading in the right direction in the course of the Hero World Problem and Sentry in current months.
After being elected to the PAC for the second straight yr, Thomas could have one other alternative to assist form how the Tour appears to be like sooner or later.
