PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan is hopeful for players to attend fall events

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The PGA Tour season ends on Aug. 27. The Ryder Cup starts a month later. And then the top 50 players in the FedEx Cup will not have to play again until the start of 2024 unless they want to add to their trophy case or bank account.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan doesn't see many top players staying home.

"I don't think it's realistic a player is going to the finish the Ryder Cup or the Presidents Cup and not play golf until January," Monahan said last week at the Wells Fargo Championship.

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Jay Monahan the Commissioner of The PGA Tour speaks to the media as a preview for THE PLAYERS Championship on THE PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. (David Cannon/Getty Images)

The idea of a real offseason sounds good on paper. Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were among those who lobbied for a shorter regular season. Woods in 2005 was lobbying for a condensed schedule that would bring the best players together more often.

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The FedEx Cup arrived in 2007 and Woods was true to his word. He didn't play for 10 weeks, returning at his Target World Challenge in December. He won, prompting Colin Montgomerie to say, "If he took a bloody year off, it would help — never mind 10 weeks."

Mickelson had a stretch of playing post-Tour Championship in Singapore, China and the California event his management company ran. All were tied with corporate and business deals. Woods wound up going to Australia and Asia until back problems slowed him.

Now the PGA Tour will get a sense of how this generation of stars