The PGA Tour will limit field sizes and reduce the number of fully exempt members in 2026, and several players had opinions about it at the RSM Classic.
On Monday, the Tour’s policy board agreed to cut field sizes and reduce the number of fully exempt members from 125 to 100 in 2026.
“There's a lot of different thoughts about these changes,” Griffin said. “As a player, I don't necessarily have the authority without being on the or the board to vote on these decisions. For me, my goal is just to play as well as possible. I think as a result of some of these changes, what we're going to see next year is going to be extremely competitive.
“I understand the reasoning, for sure,” the six-time winner said. “I don't really know if I like it or not and I don't really know if that matters ... I feel like, as a whole, the PGA Tour has done an amazing job of running this organization from the time that I first made it out here. “Seems like with the field size thing, the guys that tee off late usually never finish because of daylight, so I would like to think that would be a positive thing,” he said. “Going from 125 to 100, I don't know yet. It seems like there are a lot of really good players on the PGA Tour that finish from 100 to 125. It just makes it harder, but that's just the challenge of being out here. You're playing against the best of the best and sometimes you've just got to do it.
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