Rory McIlroy Questions Golf’s Major Schedule
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2019-09-03
By ELLIOTT HEATH, Golf Monthly
Rory McIlroy wants to see golf’s Major calendar stretched out in a similar way to tennis.
The four-time Major winner was speaking to Andrew Cotter for the BBC’s ‘The Cut Podcast’ where he explained his desire for golf to stay relevant for as long as possible.
Currently, all four golf Majors now take place between early April and mid-July with the new main PGA Tour schedule crammed into the March to August period.
It means that the Majors come around very quickly before a nine month wait from mid-July to April for them to start back up again.
“If the narrative becomes that the Majors are the only important thing in golf, then that’s dangerous narrative to run with because then are fans not going to care for the other 48 weeks of the year?,” McIlroy told the BBC.