Seismic changes are coming to the PGA Tour with a completely revamped model and schedule set to be implemented beginning in 2028.

The introduction of relegation and promotion, two separate series, match play and courses the Tour has never paid a visit to are among the many exciting changes the golf world will see in the near future.

While there are still plenty of details to be fully ironed out, which will be announced at a later date, the information the Tour formally announced on Tuesday painted a rather clear picture of just how different — and exciting — the new-look structure will be from a fan perspective.

Brian Rolapp is pictured during a Press Conference with PGA TOUR CEO Brian Rolapp prior to the Travelers Championship 2026 at TPC River Highlands on June 23, 2026 in Cromwell, Connecticut. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images) (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Everything you need to know about the new-look PGA Tour

PGA Tour Championship Series

• This will be the new top-tier on the PGA Tour, consisting of 23 to 24 events including The Players, the four major championships and international team events. Purses will be at least $20 million.
• Ten of the expected 15 Championship Series regular events have been finalized, with the remaining five to be filled out in larger, new markets.
• The field size will be, on average, 120 players, and all events will feature a 36-hole cut with the top 65 players and ties playing the weekend.
• The Tour Championship, the finale of the playoffs, will rotate around to different golf courses, and match play will be integrated in some format.
• There will be no alternates or sponsor exemptions into events.

PGA Tour Challenger Series

• The new second-tier on Tour that will also be the primary pathway onto the Championship Series.
• At least 20 Challenger Series events will take place, with seven expected to be standalone tournaments that will not overlap with Championship Series events. All events will feature a 36-hole cut.
• Fields will feature approximately 144 players and carry purses of at least $4 million.

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Tiger Woods of the United States looks towards Brian Rolapp during a Press Conference with PGA TOUR CEO Brian Rolapp prior to the Travelers Championship 2026 at TPC River Highlands on June 23, 2026 in Cromwell, Connecticut. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images) (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

Relegation and promotion

The Championship Series will have a points structure, and the top 90 players on the points list will be retained and remain on the top-tier series. Players who finish outside the top 90 will face relegation to the Challenger Series.

A minimum of 20 players from the Challenger Series will be promoted each season, with remaining spots determined through multiple criteria including tournament winners, medical extensions, career milestones and a new “last chance” series.

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The last chance series, which will take place in the fall, will consist of four to six events to determine the final spots on the following season’s Challenger Series.

PGA Tour qualifying school will still take place, but prior to the last chance series offering players to earn their way onto the Challenger Series.

Key takeaways about the Tour’s sweeping changes

One could easily make the argument that there has long been a two-tiered system on the PGA Tour. By putting it in writing, it only adds intrigue and, most importantly, clarity.

Jay Monahan (commissioner of the PGA TOUR) shakes hands with Brian Rolapp as it is announced Rolapp will become the next commissioner of the PGA TOUR effective Jan. 1 2027 during a Press Conference with PGA TOUR CEO Brian Rolapp prior to the Travelers Championship 2026 at TPC River Highlands on June 23, 2026 in Cromwell, Connecticut. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images) (Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

You have a top-tier system and a second-tier system. Players who play well in the top-tier system remain there, play for huge purses and stay atop the best circuit in professional golf. The second-tier system rewards the best players with a shot at promotion, but also features tournaments with $4 million purses, where the ‘middling’ player, even on the Challenger Series, can comfortably make a living.

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On the topic of clarity, it’s something PGA Tour fans have not been accustomed to, ever, with the various iterations of the FedEx Cup Playoffs over the years. Not only will the introduction of match play make things as straightforward as possible, but it’s also the format that golf fans have been clamoring for since the WGC match-play event was taken off the schedule after the 2023 edition.

Many minute details still have to be put in place, but the vision has been presented, and it’s a complete revamp of the PGA Tour.

Hope they have Maalox and Pepto-Bismol on hand when President Donald Trump visits Capitol Hill to meet with Senate Republicans over lunch.

Senate GOP Steering Committee Chairman and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., invited Trump for the luncheon Wednesday. Some Senate Republicans may wonder if they’re the ones on the menu. Both Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, are out after the president refused to endorse them and they lost their primaries. Trump has also sparred with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., exasperated that he can’t execute his legislative agenda.

Scott is a close ally of the president. He lost to Thune and Cornyn in the race to become majority leader in late 2024. In fact, Scott didn’t even request a blessing from the top Senate GOP leadership team to invite the president.

Scott’s teamed up with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, advocating that the Senate approve the SAVE America Act. It requires proof of citizenship to vote. This advocacy is driving Thune and other members of the GOP brass batty since the bill failed twice. Scott and Lee want the Senate to get onto the SAVE America Act and stay on it until the measure passes. But few understand how exhaustion somehow conjures a majority of senators to suddenly support the bill.

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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on June 10, 2026. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)

Moreover, the president demands that they eliminate the filibuster. If the SAVE America Act doesn’t have the necessary votes to pass, there’s no way it commands 60 yeas to break a filibuster.

Simple solution, right?

Not really. Thune has said repeatedly that there aren’t the votes to alter the filibuster, either.

It’s about the math.

So expect some intense discussions Wednesday over what the president wants the Senate to do. Thune has tried to tell the president repeatedly what the Senate is capable of, based on the various parliamentary equations.

And there’s fear among Republicans that the president may attempt to sow discord about the midterm election outcomes if Democrats flip the House and/or Senate — and Republicans never passed the SAVE America Act.

Trump sports plenty of supporters in the Senate, but he’s frustrated Senate Republicans by repeatedly yanking the legislative rug out from under his own party for weeks now. 

The Senate was on the precipice of beginning a “vote-a-rama” to finally pass funding for ICE and Border Patrol in May. Then the administration announced its weaponization fund. A meeting between Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and GOP senators devolved into pointed conversations. Blanche continued to defend the fund. Some Republicans threatened their own amendments during the vote-a-rama to either block the fund or shield themselves from political fallout.

Thune pulled the bill from the floor and sent everyone home for more than a week.

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Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks next to Jessica S. Tisch, New York Police Department commissioner, during a press conference at NYPD headquarters in New York City on March 9, 2026. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

Then there was a carefully crafted bipartisan agreement to renew FISA Section 702, the nation’s most effective program to track terrorists. Its authorization ran out after the president sidetracked the nomination of Jay Clayton, his own pick to become Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

Republicans couldn’t pass the FISA authorization on their own, so they engineered a bipartisan compromise with Democrats. But Democrats withdrew their support for the bill once the president announced that housing czar Bill Pulte would take over as acting DNI for former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned. Democrats viewed Pulte as a partisan who had no experience in intelligence. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., quickly scheduled a confirmation hearing for Jay Clayton once  Trump tapped him as the nominee.

It was believed that the Senate may be able to confirm Clayton within a matter of days after his confirmation hearing. That would limit time on the job by Pulte. So, once Clayton was in place, the Senate could prospectively return to the bipartisan FISA deal and pass it.

But Trump detonated all of that last week. He insisted that Senate Republicans cancel Clayton’s confirmation hearing and not advance his nomination until it has confirmed Jamie McDonald as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. That’s the position Clayton held. The president made those demands at 3:59 a.m. ET Wednesday — all without consulting Thune.

He then made his signature on the FISA renewal conditional on passage of the SAVE America Act. 

“That tells me he’s not very serious about FISA or intelligence,” said one senior congressional Republican about Trump. “And Pulte is a big middle finger to the intelligence community.”

So Senate Republicans aren’t enamored with all of these demands. Some began to lose faith in the president once he ditched support for Cassidy and Cornyn. Now they believe he’s being unreasonable, jerking around Thune, moving the goalposts for critical national security legislation and expecting the impossible on the SAVE America Act and the filibuster.

For his part, Scott believes he and the president can change minds.

Trump has criticized Senate Republican leaders generally of late. But he’s tiptoed around potentially calling out Thune by name. Thune is well-liked by his GOP colleagues and, like most congressional leaders, has an impossible job. That is why former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., likened the job to that of “herding cats.”

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Republican senators speak at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2026. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

It’s clear that the president has better relations right now with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., compared to Thune. But turning on Thune by name would truly infuriate many of the president’s best allies in the Senate.

Trump routinely excoriated former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for not ditching the filibuster. But it was McConnell who delivered Trump three of the most lasting legacies: Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

McConnell established a new Senate precedent for the method he used to confirm Gorsuch. Gorsuch would have faced an unprecedented filibuster for an associate justice on the High Court and never scored confirmation.

McConnell stuck by Kavanaugh during the raucous confirmation process to confirm Kavanaugh in the fall of 2018. And he rammed through Coney Barrett’s confirmation days before the 2020 election. Yet McConnell refused to hold a confirmation hearing for President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee and future Attorney General Merrick Garland for nearly 11 months — because it was an election year. Blocking confirmation of Garland held the seat open for Gorsuch. Yet Trump railed against McConnell at every turn.

Thune passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year. But through no fault of his own, Thune hasn’t delivered any wins as enduring as the Supreme Court for Trump yet. However, the president has extended some grace to the South Dakota Republican — despite his criticism of the Republican Senate.

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We’ll see if that continues after Wednesday’s luncheon.

The legislative contretemps between the president and Senate Republicans over the past few weeks has just been an appetizer. Anguish and frustration are on the bill of fare Wednesday. And if the meeting doesn’t go well, some Republicans may yell “Check, please!” to get out of there as fast as they can.

At least Jazz Chisholm Jr. did not have chewing tobacco in his mouth.

The New York Yankees’ second baseman, however, was caught sucking on a lollipop while playing defense in Detroit on Tuesday.

As opposed to perhaps sunflower seeds or bubble gum, it was a rather striking sight, as the Yankees were trailing 4-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning against the Tigers amid a mini-skid.

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New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. fields the ball during the first inning against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan, on June 22, 2026. (Rick Osentoski/Imagn Images)

Chisholm is normally pretty nonchalant, and manager Aaron Boone is rather stoic and defends his players sometimes to a fault. But the lollipop is where the line was drawn.

“That p—-s me off,” Boone told “Talkin’ Yanks.” “I didn’t know about it until after the game. He and I talked about that. That won’t be going on. I’m not on that.”

Jazz Chisholm Jr. of the New York Yankees looks on during a game against the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, on April 28, 2026. (Kelcee Skoug/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

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Chisholm is certainly not one to hide away from, well, anything. He embraced boos in Kansas City after saying the Royals “got lucky” against the Yanks in Game 2 of the 2024 American League Division Series.

Before this season, he boldly claimed he would produce 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases (he is at 11 and 23 roughly halfway through the season), and earlier this month, he predicted the Yankees would win their 28th World Series title.

Chisholm is currently on pace for his worst season in the big leagues, as his .226 average, .406 slugging percentage and .716 OPS are all the worst marks of his career.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. of the New York Yankees celebrates as he rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run in the fourth inning during the game against the Houston Astros at Daikin Park in Houston, Texas, on April 24, 2026. (Michaela Schumacher/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

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He is set to hit free agency after this season, and before the season, he made it known he wanted a contract in the range of $350 million.

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The Washington Post boasted that the Justice Department planned to “force” reporters to testify before a federal grand jury but withdrew subpoenas after they were challenged by the paper. 

The Post published a Tuesday story citing “a Justice Department official familiar with the matter” that reporter Ellen Nakashima received a grand jury subpoena this spring “related to sensitive reporting about a national security matter.”

The Post reported that the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper “was fighting the demand in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia in sealed proceedings when the government rescinded Nakashima’s subpoena.” The newspaper also reported that the “scope of the investigations that triggered the subpoenas are not clear” aside from being related to national security.

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Washington Post reporter Ellen Nakashima.

“The unwarranted subpoena of our reporter Ellen Nakashima – a clear violation of constitutionally guaranteed press freedom – was another sign of the government seeking to compel journalists to become instruments of its investigations. We will continue to stand fully behind the journalism of The Washington Post and fight all efforts by any administration that violate our First Amendment rights,” a Washington Post spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

The Post described Nakashima as “a veteran national security reporter who, during the Trump administration, has reported on the country’s most powerful intelligence officials, the Iran conflict and deadly U.S. military strikes on boats that officials alleged carried illegal drugs.”

Executive Editor Matt Murray also addressed the ordeal with Post employees on Tuesday morning. 

“With the news out and the subpoena withdrawn, I want to reiterate our unwavering support for the First Amendment rights enshrined in our constitution, the legal protections afforded journalists, and our unblinking support of our journalists and press freedom.  I also want to thank our legal colleagues who have worked aggressively on behalf of Ellen and The Post,” Murray wrote in a memo obtained by Fox News Digital. 

 “This institution stands behind each of you. It is in The Washington Post’s DNA to question, investigate, uncover and report,” he continued. “That’s why we’re here and what we’ll keep doing.”

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The Washington Post headquarters. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg)

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

The Post reported that three Wall Street Journal journalists who also report on national security also received subpoenas. 

“The Justice Department also withdrew the Wall Street Journal subpoenas, which the news organization had challenged in the same federal court, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss proceedings that are not public. None of the journalists testified before the grand jury, the official said,” the Post reported. 

The WSJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

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