PGA Tour releases revamped 2021/22 schedule

In heralding news of the Scottish Open will be now be co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour, golf’s biggest tour also released their 2021-22 PGA Tour schedule.

The new season sees several significant enhancements and features a total of 48 official events – 45 during the FedExCup Regular Season along with three 2022 FedExCup Playoffs events.

Jay Monahan and Keith Pelley

There is also some losses including three WGC events – the WorkDay Championship, the Dell Match-Play and the FedEx St. Jude Invitational along with the Northern Trust withdrawing from the Tour as a sponsor.

In one of the first signs coming out of the Strategic Alliance between the world’s biggest golf tours, next year’s 50th anniversary Scottish Open is set to deliver more of the world’s superstar golfers with an historic decision to co-sanction Scotland’s premier golfing event with the ultra-lucrative PGA Tour.

It will be the first-time ever, since the-then fledgling European Tour was founded in 1972, a ‘regular’ Tour event will be jointly hosted by golf’s two biggest tours.

The decision also, as European Tour CEO Keith Pelley cited, is ‘a first step in many more to come’.

The renamed Genesis 2022 Scottish Open will feature 73 of the European Tour’s best and an equal number of PGA Tour members.

Both tours agreed to co-sanction three events – the Genesis Scottish Open and the Barbasol Championship and Barracuda Championship on the PGA Tour.

As well, the agreement to ‘connect the ecosystem of men’s professional golf through a number of areas’ also results in the PGA Tour’s Monahan joining the Board of the European Tour.

The 2022 portion of the schedule will kick off the PGA Tour’s new, nine-year domestic media rights agreements with ViacomCBS, Comcast/NBC and ESPN. As part of the agreement, all three 2022 FedExCup Playoffs events will be broadcast domestically on NBC network television, beginning a rotation that continues with CBS hosting all three events in 2023.

Headline news includes the change in location and venue for the kickoff of the FedExCup Playoffs to TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, starting in 2022, replacing the Regular Season event that has been held in Memphis since 1958.

FedEx will serve as the title sponsor of the event, to be known as the FedEx St. Jude Championship (August 8-14), replacing existing title sponsor Northern Trust after this year’s final playing of the Northern Trust in New Jersey.

“Since the inception of the FedExCup in 2007, we have made a number of changes to enhance the quality of the FedExCup Playoffs for our players, fans and partners,” said Monahan.

“In totality, the 2021-22 PGA Tour Schedule, combined with the momentum we have with our now-entrenched partnership with the European Tour, puts the PGA Tour in a position of strength within professional golf like never before. We’re confident this schedule will give the world’s best players the opportunity to do what they do best.”

The 2022 FedExCup Playoffs will continue to include the BMW Championship (August 15-21), which rotates next year to Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware, and the FedExCup Playoffs finale, the TOUR Championship (August 22-28), once again slated for East Lake Golf Club.

The PGA Tour’s flagship event, the Players Championship (March 7-13), will anchor a true Florida Swing in 2022, which features four consecutive events through The Sunshine State in the spring, including the Valspar Championship, which was played in April/May this past year.

The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday (May 30-June 5) enters the first year of a 10-year agreement in 2022 with new presenting sponsor, Workday.

After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the RBC Canadian Open (June 6-12) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, returns to the schedule in 2022 at St. George’s Golf and Country Club. Rory McIlroy won the last RBC Canadian Open, played in 2019.

FULL PGA TOUR 2021-22 SCHEDULE