- Ditch the year round schedule.
- Ditch the Fed Ex system
- Drastically increase the purses and points in whatever new system you come up with and prioritize the traditionally prominent Tour events like the former Crosby, former Hope, San Diego, LA, Phoenix, Colonial, Nelson, Hilton Head, Bay Hill, Memorial, Canadian and a few others and make them the backbone of the tour and the ones that 90% of the top players will play.
- Otherwise greatly reduce the number of events and make the tournaments that do survive but aren't part of the above rota low priority and low points.
- Reinvigorate the WGC tournaments that they have let die on the vine and make them true world tournaments. Have one in early January in Australia, have one in Asia in the fall and have one in Continental Europe. Incentivize players to play in them by having high purses and making it a requirement to play in a certain number of them.
- After the Memorial there really isn't an important non-major tournament for the rest of the year. Re-invigorate the Western Open and move it around the Midwest to prominent golf clubs.
- Move the match play tournament to early August and [play it at an architecturally interesting golf course.
- Since they are no longer the only game in town the Tour will need to set itself up so that the top players are facing off against each other much more often. That means fewer tournaments but more money on the line in the ones that survive.
This is probably the best list of recommendations posted, but I don't know how you square "prioritizing the traditionally prominent Tour events" with "reinvigorating the WGC events". The LIV tour is pulling off the majority of international players, many of whom have always resented that they had to live in America in order to compete at the highest level.
Where LIV will have a problem is if they start attracting Asian sponsors and insist on holding tournaments over there; that's much less attractive to most of the players. But that's where they might actually recoup some of their $.
The best thing that the PGA Tour can do is to defend home soil, because ultimately, the LIV tour isn't going to attract the best American players without holding half of its events in America. That's going to put a lot of pressure on the new relationship between the PGA Tour the European tour.
Reach a deal with the LIV to co exist.
Agree to about an 8 tournament LIV after the Open..as above nothing good after The Open on tour anyway.
Promote those 8 events going world wide to TRULY enhance growing the game.
A win win. Players get paid without this stupid suspension...which just looks petty and childish..avoid Court battles and more questions from the Monopolies commission.
There is NO REASON the two cannot run together, the Tour just needs to quit being the bully in the room, shorten its schedule and allow for the players to get their pay as well.
If they done, I can see prolonged court battles and an increase in players jumping over to the LIV.
Young upcoming talent without a direct route to the tour, will relish the guaranteed income and then the Tour loses its next generation of entertainers.
The Tour will have to make drastic changes long term, IF the LIV lasts any longer that 3/5 years., and they ignore the potential of the LIV
Start giving guaranteed income at all events...minimum of 15 k for missing the cut
Restart the Q school process
STOP being the big bully, which has already killed what used to be a good Australian Tour for example.
I for one am delighted to see the PGA Tour get a taste of what they have been doing to others for decades