PGA Tour makes schedule changes in response to LIV Golf's rise, including more designated events with no cuts

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The PGA Tour is making major changes to its schedule and how several of its events are played as LIV Golf's second season gets underway.

The PGA Tour ratified a motion Tuesday that reduces fields for eight designated events in 2024 to between 70 and 80 golfers with no 36-hole cuts.

The tour has not announced which events will be affected, but the majors, the FedEx Cup Playoffs and the Players Championship will not be included in the changes.

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Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy walk to the 18th green during the first round of the Genesis Invitational Feb. 16, 2023, at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. (Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"Over the last year, we have spent a massive amount of time exploring how to better position the PGA Tour for continued growth," PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan wrote in a memo. "How to innovate and deliver a better product. How to further showcase our top performers, while staying true to the meritocracy and legacy that define the tour. How to create a season of consequence that deepens and expands fan interest. How to make every tournament better and deliver more value to sponsors, media partners and host organizations — to the benefit of the entire membership."

Monahan says the tour will "focus on ensuring purse size, elimination of a cut and FedEx Cup points distribution to sufficiently incentivize top performers to participate in the designated events."

The changes "will reward top performers, provide ample opportunity for play-in from season-long performance and different intervals throughout the season, retain an