The PGA Tour is considering a major shakeup for its Tour Championship. A new match-play format could create a 'win-or-go-home' finale. Jordan Spieth, however, sees one big problem with the plan, especially for TV audiences.

Talking to Kay Adams on Up & Adams Show, Spieth admitted that he doesn’t know about the whole story or whether Rolapp was talking about the whole playoffs. However, he knew that the match play was under consideration for the Tour Championship around the end of the season, and he had one idea to make it interesting.

“If you’re going to have that big of a pot for the win and you’ve earned a lot of it throughout the season, trying to get the best players there on the biggest day, the last day. If you could control the best players in the world be playing on your Super Bowl Sunday, your Tour Championship Sunday, it’s probably best. Match play doesn’t quite allow that to happen. But it is super exciting.” 

What Spieth referred to was the television side of things. While match play has been common at the Ryder Cup, in the PGA Championship till about 1958 and throughout the NCAA, it's not popular with TV partners. The guarantee of viewers watching a Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler showdown is much higher than two lesser-known golfers.

At the same time, watching an underdog go for millions of dollars as they work their way through the bracket could work well for the Tour Championship, which is in desperate need of a shakeup.

Now, the question is whether the PGA Tour CEO would acknowledge Spieth’s feedback or not. 

Brian Rolapp Accepts Jordan Spieth and Others’ Feedback

Acknowledging the multiple opinions of the PGA Tour golfers during the presser at TPC Sawgrass a day ago, Rolapp said, “I'm a big believer in transparency and feedback. I'm also a big believer in making sure you know what you don't know. Humility and knowing what you don't know is a completely underrated leadership attribute in my view.”

As a fairly new leader in the world of golf, there are still many things that he needs to learn. And he cannot miss out on receiving feedback from the players who regularly stand over the putt. 

Rolapp highlighted the golfers’ smartness and care for the tour. He said, “I find that they're progressive in their thinking, despite what I think some people might say. I think it is a strength of our TOUR.”

But will the PGA Tour CEO work on Spieth’s idea? That’s something that only time can tell. 

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Krushna Pattnaik