fundamental change of PGA Tour

It had been Gary McCord's idea to have a system where 125 players would be exempt each year, a strategy containing served the tour approximately the path of 30 years.

While 125 will continue the magic number as much as exempt status, the way a player achieves that status -- and how he gets on tour initially -- will undergo a radical change beginning late pick up when, the very first time, the PGA Tour will wrap its season around two calendars.

Not even visiting the FedEx Cup model in 2007 was as big of an change because this will probably be if it commences in 2013.

Commissioner Tim Finchem announced Tuesday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando the changes which have been on blackboards plus back rooms for most of history year. The PGA Tour's Mizuno MP-68 Irons policy board approved the modern plan that can significantly modify the annual PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament and produce a hardcore end on the golf season.

"I think i was persuaded that there were many strong benefits to move it down this road," Finchem said.

The new plan has lots of skeptics, even among players, who wonder if there were really anything that needed fixing.

The PGA Tour is good, almost fully sponsored, with record purses, a television deal signed for the following decade as well as an extension of the FedEx Cup deal through 2016.

If you have an optimistic development, it is that this tour season will conclude starting in 2013 with all the Tour Championship. Those that entitled to the FedEx Cup playoffs by finishing one of the top 125 points earners will likely be fully exempt for your 2014 season. There won't be any money-list push following the Tour Championship concludes, that is the format since 2007 -- as well as an awkward one at that.

Now players will know their fate following a Wyndham Championship in August. They are either in the playoffs or they are not.

This is when the PGA Tour is blowing up one of its mainstays, the annual Q-School, where players advanced through various stages using the final brutal six-day, 108-hole qualifier determining 25 players Mizuno MX-1000 irons who bring home their PGA Tour cards for the following season.

That system will not take place. As a way to propping in the Nationwide Tour -- that may don't have the insurance company as an underwriter after this year -- the tour has been evolving the device to ensure Q-School is only going to grant a gamer access to the developmental tour.

Instead, players who finished 126th to 200th around the PGA Tour money list, combined with the top 75 players on the Nationwide Tour money list, will probably be seeded in a very three-tournament number of events to own around the time from the FedEx Cup playoffs -- most likely during off weeks. The very best 50 players will earn tour cards for the following season. Q-School, meanwhile, only feeds the Nationwide Tour. Those that don't increase the risk for PGA Tour will fall back to the Nationwide Tour.

Players including Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler and 2012 tour rookies John Huh (who won in Mexico) and Sang-Moon discount golf clubs Bae (who just lost inside a playoff in the Transitions Championship) made their way on top of the tour through Q-School. Had the new plan visited place, they'd have spent per year around the Nationwide Tour or its equivalent.