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2022-23 PGA Tour Schedule: Complete Dates, Winners, Purses

• Author: SI Golf staff

Here is the complete schedule for the 2022-23 PGA Tour season, including every major championship and the season-ending FedEx Cup playoffs in August.

We'll update this article after every tournament with the winner of each event and the total prize money won.

Here's when each of the majors will be played in 2023:

2023 majors schedule

• The Masters : Week of April 3-9 at Augusta National, Augusta, Georgia
• The PGA Championship : Week of May 15-21 at Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, New York
• The U.S. Open : Week of June 12-18 at Los Angeles Country Club (North Course), Los Angeles, California
• The British Open : Week of July 17-23 at Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, England

Here is the schedule, which features 45 events from September 2022 through August 2023.

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The 2022-23 PGA Tour Schedule: Complete dates, winners and prize money

Date, Tournament, Course(s), Location, Champion and Purse

Sept. 12-18: Fortinet Championship, Silverado Resort and Spa (North Course), Napa, California.

Winner: Max Homa, $1,440,000 from purse of $8 million

Sept. 19-25: Presidents Cup, Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina

Winner: U.S., 17.5-12.5

Sept. 26- Oct. 2: Sanderson Farms Championship, The Country Club of Jackson, Jackson, Mississippi

Winner: Mackenzie Hughes, $1,422,000 from a purse of $7.9 million

Oct. 3-9: Shriners Children's Open TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada

Winner: Tom Kim, $1,440,000 from a purse of $8 million

Oct. 10-16: Zozo Championship, Narashino Country Club, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Winner: Keegan Bradley, $1,980,000 from a purse of $11 million

Oct. 17-23: The CJ Cup in South Carolina, Congaree Golf Club, Ridgeland, South Carolina

Winner: Rory McIlroy, $1,890,000 from a purse of $10.5 million

Oct. 24-30: Butterfield Bermuda Championship, Port Royal Golf Course, Southampton, Bermuda

Winner: Seamus Power, $1,170,000 from a purse of $6.5 million

Oct. 31-Nov. 6: World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba, El Camaleón Golf Course at Mayakoba, Riviera Maya, Mexico

Winner: Russell Henley, $1,476,000 from a purse of $8.2 million

Nov. 7-13: Cadence Bank Houston Open, Memorial Park Golf Course, Houston, Texas

Winner: Tony Finau, $1,512,000 from a purse of $8.4 million

Nov. 14-20: The RSM Classic, Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course, Plantation Course), St. Simons Island, Georgia

Winner: Adam Svensson, $1,458,000 from a purse of $8.1 million

Nov. 28-Dec. 4: Hero World Challenge, Albany, Bahamas.

Winner: Viktor Hovland, $1 million from a purse of $3.5 million

Dec. 5-11: QBE Shootout at Tiburon Golf Club at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort, Naples, Florida

Winners: Tom Hoge and Sahith Theegala, sharing $950,000 from a purse of $3.6 million

Jan. 2-8: Sentry Tournament of Champions, Kapalua Resort (The Plantation Course), Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii

Winner: Jon Rahm, $2.7 million from a purse of $15 million

Jan. 9-15: Sony Open in Hawaii, Waialae Country Club, Honolulu, Hawaii

Winner: Si Woo Kim, $1,422,000 from a purse of $7.9 million

Jan. 16-22: The American Express, PGA West (Stadium Course, Nicklaus Tournament Course), La Quinta Country Club, La Quinta, California

Winner: Jon Rahm, $1.44 million from a purse of $8 million

Jan. 23-29: Farmers Insurance Open (Saturday finish), Torrey Pines Golf Course (South Course, North Course), San Diego, California

Winner: Max Homa, $1.566 million from a purse of $8.7 million

Jan. 30-Feb. 5: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course, Monterey Peninsula Country Club (Shore Course), Pebble Beach, California

Winner: Justin Rose, $1.62 million from a purse of $9 million

Feb. 6-12: Waste Management Phoenix Open, TPC Scottsdale (Stadium Course), Scottsdale, Arizona

Winner: Scottie Scheffler, $3.6 million from a purse of $20 million

Feb. 13-19: The Genesis Invitational, The Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, California

Winner: Jon Rahm, $3.6 million from a purse of $20 million

Feb. 20-26: The Honda Classic, PGA National Resort and Spa (The Champion), Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Winner: Chris Kirk, $1.512 million from a purse of $8.4 million

Feb. 27-March 5: Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Orlando, Florida

Winner: Kurt Kitayama, $3.6 million from a purse of $20 million

Feb. 27-March 5: Puerto Rico Open, Grand Reserve Country Club, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico

Winner: Nico Echavarria, $684,000 from a purse of $3.8 million

March 6-12: The Players Championship, TPC Sawgrass (The Players Stadium Course), Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

Winner: Scottie Scheffler, $4,500,000 from a purse of $25 million

March 13-19: Valspar Championship, Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead Course), Palm Harbor, Florida

Winner: Taylor Moore, $1,458,000 from a purse of $8.1 million

March 20-26: World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play, Austin Country Club, Austin, Texas

Winner: Sam Burns, $3,500,000 from a purse of $20 million

March 20-26: Corales Puntacana Championship, Puntacana Resort and Club (Corales Golf Course), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

Winner: Matt Wallace, $684,000 from a purse of $3.8 million

March 27-April 2: Valero Texas Open, TPC San Antonio (The Oaks Course), San Antonio, Texas

Winner: Corey Conners, $1,602,000 from a purse of $8.9 million

April 3-9: Masters Tournament, Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia

Winner: Jon Rahm, $3,240,000 from a purse of $18 million

April 10-16: RBC Heritage, Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Winner: Matt Fitzpatrick, $3,600,000 from a purse of $20 million

April 17-23: Zurich Classic of New Orleans, TPC Louisiana, Avondale, Louisiana

Winners: Nick Hardy and Davis Riley share $2,485,400 from a purse of $8.6 million

April 24-30: Mexico Open, Vidanta Vallarta, Vallarta, Mexico

Winner: Tony Finau, $1,386,000 from a purse of $7.7 million

May 1-7: Quail Hollow Club, Charlotte, North Carolina

Winner: Wyndham Clark, $3,600,000 from a purse of $20 million

May 8-14: AT&T Byron Nelson, TPC Craig Ranch, McKinney, Texas

Winner: Jason Day, $1,710,000 from a purse of $9.5 million

May 15-21: PGA Championship, Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, New York

Winner: Brooks Koepka, $3,150,000 from a purse of $17.5 million

May 22-28: Charles Schwab Challenge, Colonial Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas

Winner: Emiliano Grillo, $1,566,000 from a purse of $8.7 million

May 29-June 4: the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio

Winner: Viktor Hovland, $3,600,000 from a purse of $20 million

June 5-11: RBC Canadian Open, Oakdale Golf and Country Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Winner: Nick Taylor, $1,620,000 from a purse of $9 million

June 13-19: U.S. Open, Los Angeles Country Club (North Course), Los Angeles, California

June 26-29: Travelers Championship, TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut

Winner: Keegan Bradley, $3,600,000 million from a purse of $20 million

June 26-July 2: Rocket Mortgage Classic, Detroit Golf Club, Detroit, Michigan

Winner: Rickie Fowler, $1,584,000 from a purse of $8.8 million

July 3-9: John Deere Classic, TPC Deere Run, Silvis, Illinois

Winner: Sepp Straka, $1,332,000 from a purse of $7.4 million

July 10-16: Genesis Scottish Open, Renaissance Club, North Berwick Scotland

Winner: Rory McIlroy, $1,575,000 from a purse of $9 million

July 10-16: Barbasol Championship, Keene Trace Golf Club (Champions Course), Nicholasville, Kentucky

Winner: Vincent Norrman, $684,000 from a purse of $3.8 million

July 17-23: The British Open, Royal Liverpool, Hoylake, England

Winner: Brian Harman, $3,000,000 from a purse of $16.5 million

July 17-23: Barracuda Championship, Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood), Truckee, California

Winner: Akshay Bhatia, $684,000 from a purse of $3.8 million

July 24-30: 3M Open, TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, Minnesota

Winner: Lee Hodges, $1,404,000 from a purse of $7.8 million

July 31-Aug. 6: Wyndham Championship, Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, North Carolina

Winner: Lucas Glover, $1,368,000 from a purse of $7.6 million

2023 FedEx Cup Playoffs

Aug. 7-13: FedEx St. Jude Championship, TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee

Winner: Lucas Glover, $3.6 million from a purse of $20 million

Aug. 14-20: BMW Championship, Olympia Fields Country Club (North Course), Olympia Fields, Illinois

Winner: Viktor Hovland, $3.6 million from a purse of $20 million

Aug. 21-27: Tour Championship, East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia

Winner: Viktor Hovland, $18 million from a purse of $75 million

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PGA Tour releases 2022-23 schedule, including major changes to the FedEx Cup

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The PGA Tour released its full 47-event schedule for the 2022-23 season, the last wraparound campaign before the tour switches back to a calendar-year-based schedule beginning in 2024.

Notable changes include the BMW Championship moving from Wilmington Country Club in Delaware back to the Chicago area, with Olympia Fields playing host to the second of three FedEx Cup playoff events after staging a fan-less BMW in 2020. Just 70 players will qualify for the first playoff event next season, the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind in Memphis, down from the 125 that have made it to the postseason since the FedEx Cup began in 2007 . These 70 will be fully exempt for the following season, while players outside the top 70 will compete for FedEx Cup points and additional status in a series of fall events.

Fifty players will advance from the FedEx St. Jude to the BMW, with the top 30 qualifying for the season-ending Tour Championship, which wraps on Aug. 27.

The top-50 finishers in the FedEx Cup playoffs—so, those who qualify for the BMW Championship—will be eligible to compete in a series of international events. Details of this international series are expected to be released later this year, but the tour’s release says the limited-field, no-cut events also will be open to the top performers in the fall series.

MORE: The PGA Tour's new plan for keeping its stars

Both of the first two FedEx Cup playoff events will see their purse increase from $15 million to $20 million, part of widespread increases in prize money payouts for events throughout the upcoming season. The Sentry Tournament of Champions will have a purse of $15 million, up from $8.2 million, and the three player-hosted invitationals—the Genesis Invitational, the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard and the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday—as well as the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play will offer $20 million in prize money, all up from $12 million. The FedEx Cup will once again feature a $75 million prize pool, while the Comcast Business top 10 will pay $20 million to the top 10 finishers in the FedEx Cup regular-season standings. The Player Impact Program will include $50 million in total bonuses.

The match play is the only World Golf Championship event on the schedule after the cancellation of the WGC-HSBC Champions event in China.

MORE: The latest FedEx Cup points standings heading into the 2021-22 regular-season finale

The season once again begins at the Fortinet Championship (Sept. 15-18) in Napa, which will take place the week before the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow in Charlotte. The CJ Cup, which was held in South Korea from 2017-19 before moving to Las Vegas for 2020 and 2021, moves to Congaree Golf Club in South Carolina. The RSM Classic (Nov. 17-20) will be the last PGA Tour event of 2022, with the season picking up again at the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii after New Year's. After two events in Hawaii the tour heads to the west coast for The American Express and the Farmers Insurance Open, which will finish on a Saturday for the second-consecutive year. The following week will see Phoenix play host to both the WM Phoenix Open and the Super Bowl.

The rest of the schedule looks almost identical to that of 2021-22, with notable exceptions including the Rocket Mortgage Classic moving to late June and the 3M Open sliding one week later and serving as the penultimate event of the FedEx Cup regular season.

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The next PGA Tour Golf tournament will be the Hero World Challenge, which will be held from the 30th of November to the 3rd of December 2023.

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The next major will be the Masters in Augusta, Georgia which will be held from the 8th to the 14th of April 2024.

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PGA Tour Schedule 2023: Events, dates and prize money

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan announced huge changes to the 2023 schedule before last week's Tour Championship in reaction to the emergence of LIV Golf.

The PGA Tour schedule for 2023 was fairly straightforward before commissioner Jay Monahan announced a series of bombshells ahead of last week's Tour Championship.

The dates of each event remained the same, but now, the top 20 players from the Player Impact Program will be required to play in 20 events next year. 

Securing the future of the Tour's best players was the main aim of these new innovations which were discussed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy and a number of other players two weeks ago in a special meeting.

This will include 12 Elevated Events, four major championships, The Players Championship and three other tournaments of the players' choice. Four Elevated Events are still yet to be decided.

The Sentry Tournament of Champions, the Genesis Invitational, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Memorial Tournament, the WGC Match Play and the three FedExCup Playoffs events constitute the first eight confirmed Elevated Events.

The four new Elevated Events will have prize purses of $20 million. The Tour Championship and FedEx Cup bonus pool in 2023 will be $75 million.

70 players will start the first FedEx Cup Playoff event at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. 50 will make it to the BMW Championship and as usual, 30 will play in the finale. 

The PIP has also been expanded to a $100 million prize pool for the top 20 players who excel in Internet Searches, General Awareness, Golf Fan Awareness, Media Mentions and Broadcast Exposure.

These changes to the schedule which begin next month have been brought forward in a rapid fashion due to the development of the LIV Golf Tour .

In 2023, there will be 44 events and here is the full PGA Tour 2023 schedule below:

FedEx Cup Playoffs:

- August 7-13: FedEx St. Jude Championship, TPC Southwind, Tennessee

- August 14-20: BMW Championship, Olympia Fields Country Club, Illinois

- August 21-27: Tour Championship, East Lake Golf Club, Georgia

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The wraparound season is gone, but that doesn’t mean there will be a shortage of PGA Tour events this fall.

The seven-event slate tees it up next month in Napa, California, at the Fortinet Championship, and concludes in December at the silly season’s PNC Championship in Orlando. In between are the Ryder Cup and a new stop in Mexico.

Tour pros will get two weeks off before it all starts up again. And there’s much more on the line in the fall for players looking to shore up their eligibility for the 2024 season, which begins in January at the Sentry .

Those ranked No. 51 and beyond in the FedEx Cup standings from 2023 will carry their FedEx Cup points from the regular season and first playoff event into the FedEx Cup Fall and continue to accumulate points to finalize eligibility for the 2024 season.

The FedEx Cup Fall will finalize the priority ranking entering the 2024 season, including the top 125 category for those who finished outside the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings. Standard FedEx Cup points will be issued in the seven events, including 500 points awarded to the winner.

Ten players, not previously eligible, with the most season-long FedEx Cup points through the FedEx Cup Fall, will earn exemptions into the first two signature events that follow the Sentry.

A win during the fall will earn a two-year Tour exemption, 500 FedEx Cup points, entry to the season-opening Sentry and the Players Championship as well as eligibility into majors that have invited Tour winners in the past.

Here’s a look at the PGA Tour’s 2023 fall schedule, including purses for each event.

The RSM Classic is the last chance for golfers to earn their 2024 Tour cards.

The 2023 calendar year ends with three silly season events: Tiger’s Hero World Challenge, a new mixed at Tiburon in Florida and the increasingly popular PNC Championship.

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2023 PGA Tour schedule: The LIV money question, majors, key dates and changes

The 2023 PGA Tour schedule features 44 regular-season events and $428.6 million in official prize money, the PGA announced Monday. Another $145 million is available in bonuses.

The schedule includes six out of eight invitationals (the Sentry Tournament of Champions, Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational, Memorial Tournament, Players Championship and WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play) with significantly increased prize money.

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As previously announced, the FedExCup Playoffs will include a smaller field than in years past. For the first round, 70 players will earn a start at the St. Jude Championship, then 50 players will advance to the BMW Championship and 30 to the TOUR Championship.

The 2023 schedule marks the last before the Tour transitions to a calendar-year season beginning in 2024.

View the full schedule and prize money changes here.

The changes come shortly about LIV Golf announced an expansion to 14 tournaments, with $405 million available in prize money, for 2023.

Here’s what you need to know about the 2023 PGA Tour schedule.

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Did any tournaments get a bad draw.

Organizers for the Travelers Championships, Rocket Mortgage Classic and John Deere Classic might be chasing player commitments in Hunger Games-style campaigns next spring. Those three events, in order from late June through early July, follow a stretch of play beginning in early May going from the Wells Fargo Championship to the Byron Nelson to the PGA Championship (Oak Hill) to the Charles Schwab to the Memorial to the Canadian Open to the U.S. Open (Los Angeles Country Club). All those are desirable starts and, in theory, more highly regarded than the Travelers, Rocket Mortgage or John Deere.

And immediately followed that Travelers-RMC-John Deere stretch? It’s the Scottish Open and and the Open Championship (Royal Liverpool).

How many events of those three squeezed-in tournament starts are high-profile players reasonably make? It’s easy to imagine some guys skipping two of them.

Of the three, though, the Rocket Mortgage faces an entirely separate issue. The tournament drew the Fourth of July slot on the calendar. As any Michigander will tell you, the southeast quadrant of the state often looks like an empty parking lot on the holiday weekend. The Rocket Mortgage previously landed on the Fourth of July in both 2020 and 2021. In 2020, no spectators were permitted, so it was moot. (But even still, that field included only 20 of the top 100 players in the world .) In 2021, attendance numbers dropped off from the inaugural event in 2019 (June 27-30). So, now, in 2023, the Rocket Mortgage will not only have to navigate a crowded window for players, but also a tough calendar for its locals.

Why did the money increase so much?

The gut reaction is, “Oh, LIV Golf arrived and suddenly the PGA Tour is opening up the purse strings. Hypocrisy!!”

Well, yeah, it’s not remotely that simple. Was the PGA Tour forced to bulk up prize money in response to LIV? Absolutely. No choice.

The fact is, though, purse increases were coming regardless. Would they have been to this extent? Would the eight invitationals increase their purses to range from $15 to $25 million? We don’t know. However, when the tour signed its new nine-year, $7 billion media rights agreement with CBS Sports, NBC Sports and ESPN back in March 2020, it wasn’t scheduled to go into effect until 2022 and wouldn’t have been reflected in 2021-22 season numbers. Now that the tour has arrived at the 2022-23 slate, the numbers are spiking. This was coming, LIV or no LIV.

The 2022-23 PGA TOUR schedule is here. • Condensed #FedExCup Playoffs fields (From 125/70/30 to 70/50/30) • Elevated purses for invitationals ($15 to $25 million) • Bonus pools increase to $145 million overall More details below ⬇️ — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 1, 2022

As far as the bonus pool goes, $145 million is available in 2022-23. The breakdown: $75 million for the FedEx Cup, $20 million for the Comcast Business Tour Top 10 and $50 million for the Player Impact Program.

All told, the purses money available for non-majors in 2022-23 comes to a total pot of $428.6 million, not including bonus money. That’s an increase of $68.3 million in non-major purses from 2022 to 2023.

Is extra money actually going to make a difference?

Good question. Probably not.

LIV Golf’s money cannon still dwarfs what the PGA Tour is offering. Even more, if the Saudi Public Investment Fund wants to put up another $2 billion into this asset to throw more outrageous figures at players — hey, would Rory McIlroy or Jordan Spieth or Justin Thomas or Jon Rahm turn down $500 million? How about $750 million? A billion? Point is, if the PIF wants to make that kind of money available and LIV organizers want to put forth those kind of offers, they can do it and there’s nothing the PGA Tour can do to compete with those sums.

Does more tour money makes it easier for those who say no to LIV to feel reasonably sensible? Maybe. But at the end of the day, the only reason anyone is staying on the PGA Tour instead of defecting to LIV is because they’re already wealthy and that’s where they want to play.

Why did the number of players who make the postseason shrink?

A few reasons, but most interesting to me is this 1) adds some drama of more established players potentially falling outside the top 70 and having to compete to retain their tour status and 2) adds some legitimate meaning to those events in the fall series for fans. Whereas there was little reason to flip over from football in previous years, now there’s at least a reason to check in.

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The 2023 schedule will see the Waste Management and the Super Bowl played on the same weekend in the same city. Send bail.

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A year later, no PGA Tour-PIF deal. Was it ever close? Is it coming soon?

Never has a year felt so long and yet so short than the last 12 months in pro golf. 

In the spring of 2022, LIV Golf launched. By the spring of '23, the PGA Tour was convinced it needed to reach a deal with the Saudi PIF. That all happened pretty quickly! But since then? Stagnancy. A grindingly slow churn of modest updates and a musical chairs of board seats . Golf fans are right to wonder what the future looks like, and free to be disgruntled by the lack of progress.

Who is to blame?

The blanket answer is … everyone . The first wave of players who left for LIV Golf, and the others who trickled behind, chasing money over anything else. The Tour executives who used unilateral power to reach an initial agreement without, say, Tiger Woods having the slightest idea. But also Woods himself, among other players, for plodding along, wresting control of decision-making on the policy board, and showing a general distaste for team golf not played in a Palm Beach Gardens dome. 

Plenty of blame can go to the PIF for throwing good money after bad, and for thinking its chief, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, could be granted an Augusta National membership with the snap of a finger. These things happened. They're baked into background conversations and also in documents shared by a U.S. Senate investigation. Some of them were small and others were meaningful, but cumulatively they have led to a sluggish 12 months. 

Golf fans who stayed loyal to the product through this period - through senate hearings, late-night demands from top players, sponsor angst, new investment! - would be right to wonder a few things, namely (1) How close was a deal in 2023?, and (2) Is a deal coming soon? 

As for the first question, the slowed pace can largely be attributed to Tour players wanting to hit pause last summer. Professional athletes don't like surprises. Neither do their managers and families. To many pros, the June 6 announcement was a surprise bordering on a slap in the face. As independent contractors, Tour pros are accustomed to signing up for only what they want. Not everyone wanted a deal. Not everyone was comfortable with the idea of LIV golfers returning without sanctions. Players were as vocal as ever, calling for management changes, demanding repercussions, etc. The Tour had to get its house in order before it could proceed.

Even if the details were not perfectly ironed out, the two sides were engaged. They hadn't reached wedding week and certainly hadn't walked down the aisle together but proposals were agreed to. Litigation was dropped. And it took just five weeks to put a ring on it. The initial rough layout of a future pro golf schedule that involves both LIV and the PGA Tour was brokered by Keith Pelley and sent to Jimmy Dunne on April 14, 2023. By May 16, the two sides had met in Venice and hammered out the first draft of an agreement. Five weeks! It doesn't have to be slow, but it has been. 

Was the deal close? Close enough that both sides were planning new directors for LIV Golf. Close enough that both sides were envisioning a global schedule without conflict. Close enough that Dunne wanted the sides to reach a definitive agreement before Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan would make an announcement together, broadcasting to the world their new partnership. But … is anything close without Tiger Woods' blessing?

Which brings us to the second question: Is a deal nearing? There is cause for optimism. But only of the slightest degree. 

The two sides recently swapped term sheets, according to the New York Times - essentially an exchanging of information, intentions, etc. - presenting their own view of their offerings. Rest assured, the same sort of swapping took place in secretive meetings a year ago. There should be little surprise about what the PIF wanted then and what its leaders continue to want now: a foot in the golf door, a defined future for team golf, room for PIF companies (Aramaco, new airline Riyadh Air, etc.) to sponsor pro golf in much the same way they do with other sports. But when Adam Scott, a member of the Policy Board, suggested last week that he doesn't know the PIF's vision, it tells you something important: It hasn't fully been explained to him. 

So, it’s a good thing that Scott will learn about it this week. He’s a board member of PGA Tour Enterprises - the new for-profit company which would presumably receive any investment from the PIF - and a member of the new transaction sub-committee within the board. That sub-committee is set to meet with PIF representatives in New York this week, according to the Times . That’s Tiger Woods and John Henry (and a few other non-players), with Rory McIlroy calling in from the Memorial Tournament. The heaviest of hitters gathering around the table. It may have taken us 12 months to arrive here, but it’s starting to feel like progress.

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Dunne resigns PGA's Tour policy board, effective immediately

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Jimmy Dunne, who last year helped negotiate the PGA Tour's controversial framework agreement with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, resigned from the tour's policy board on Monday.

In Dunne's resignation letter, a copy of which was obtained by ESPN, Dunne wrote that "no meaningful progress has been made towards a transaction with PIF" and that "my vote and my role is utterly superfluous" now that player directors outnumber independent directors on the policy board. Dunne's resignation was effective immediately.

"It is crucial for the Board to avoid letting yesterday's differences interfere with today's decisions, especially when they influence future opportunities for the tour," Dunne wrote. "Unifying professional golf is paramount to restoring fan interest and repairing wounds left from a fractured game. I have tried my best to move all minds in that direction."

Along with PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, Dunne and policy board chairman Ed Herlihy secretly negotiated the framework agreement with the PIF, which is financing the rival LIV Golf League. Monahan and PIF governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan announced the deal on June 6. Most PGA Tour players -- including some player directors -- were unaware of the deal until it was announced on TV.

The framework agreement expired Dec. 31, but the sides have continued to try to negotiate a deal. Monahan and player directors, including Tiger Woods , met with Al-Rumayyan in the Bahamas on March 18.

At the Masters in April, Woods said the meeting was productive.

"I don't know if we're closer, but certainly we're headed in the right direction," Woods said. "That was a very positive meeting, and I think both sides came away from the meeting feeling positive."

The PGA Tour did strike a deal with Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of billionaire American sports team owners and others, to invest up to $3 billion into PGA Tour Enterprises, a new for-profit entity.

In a memo, obtained by ESPN Monday night, sent to Tour golfers, Monahan addressed the developments, saying "I'd like to thank Jimmy for his steadfast service to this organization since he joined the Board in January 2023, not to mention his countless contributions to the game of golf that span decades."

Monahan, in the memo, also added "we continue to make meaningful progress behind the scenes in our negotiations toward a potential agreement with the PIF. Our goal remains to deliver the best possible outcome for the PGA Tour, our players, partners, tournaments and fans," before concluding that "out of respect for the PGA Championship, we will not be making any additional public comments on this matter."

Dunne, a Wall Street dealmaker, testified about the tour's potential deal with the Saudis in front of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on July 11. Monahan was taking a leave of absence for health reasons at the time of the hearing.

Dunne suggested in his resignation letter on Monday that he had been cut out of the negotiations with the Saudis. His resignation comes less than a week after PGA Tour star Rory McIlroy told reporters that certain people on the policy board were "uncomfortable" with him returning to the board .

McIlroy resigned from the policy board in November. Player director Webb Simpson was prepared to step down -- if McIlroy replaced him to help get a deal done with the Saudis.

Along with Woods and Simpson, the player directors are Patrick Cantlay , Jordan Spieth , Adam Scott and Peter Malnati . Former tour member Joe Ogilvie is a board liaison.

On Thursday, the tour announced that former Valero Energy Corp. CEO Joseph W. Gorder had been elected to serve as the inaugural chairman of PGA Tour Enterprises' board of directors and that McIlroy would be part of a transaction committee that would handle the tour's negotiations with the PIF.

Gorder, now executive chairman of Valero Energy's board, also will serve on the transaction committee, along with Fenway Sports Group founder and principal owner John W. Henry, Monahan, Scott, Woods, McIlroy and Ogilvie.

Dunne and Herlihy were left off the transaction committee.

"Players have lost trust in the board because of the backdoor deals and the governance," one PGA Tour member, not authorized to formally speak on the situation, told ESPN on Monday. "The more players are getting involved, the more they realize things aren't being run like they want -- from the top down. The players have told the rest of the board they want to run it and don't trust the board. When you lose faith in the head guy, none of the players are going to pay attention anymore."

Dunne did not respond to ESPN's request for comment.

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