Jason Day makes LIV Golf statement after sending clear message PGA Tour bosses over schedule

Jason Day is successful enactment astatine the Farmers Insurance Open astatine Torrey Pines and has fixed his thoughts connected the existent authorities of the PGA Tour docket connected the backmost of their LIV Golf rivalry

Jason Day has suggested that the PGA Tour schedule has present been divided into two, pursuing the instauration of the circuit's lucrative Signature Events.

Day is successful enactment astatine the Farmers Insurance Open astatine Torrey Pines, marking his 3rd lawsuit of the play aft playing successful The Sentry and past week's American Express. The commencement of the PGA Tour play has been dilatory 1 successful presumption of attracting their biggest names to vie alongside each other.

Two of the Tour's biggest stars, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, person yet to tee it up successful the States this year, with the erstwhile injured and the second starting his play on the DP World Tour successful Dubai last week.

Meanwhile, world No. 2 Xander Schauffele has lone played erstwhile astatine the season-opening Sentry, earlier withdrawing from the American Express and not competing astatine Torrey Pines this week. A fig of names connected the Farmers Insurance Open introduction database person besides withdrawn, with Will Zalatoris being the latest, pursuing Collin Morikawa and Akshay Bhatia.

However, 1 antheral who is competing is Day. Ahead of the tournament, the Australian expressed his content that the circuit has been divided into 2 pursuing the motorboat of the Signature Events, which are exclusively disposable to the PGA Tour's apical players. Day thinks this two-tiered strategy has emerged owed to the constitution of LIV Golf.

"Well, determination are 2 tours wrong a circuit present if you could recognize that," helium claimed. "I deliberation you person the apical guys playing the Signature Events and you person the different broadside of it, too. I deliberation that conscionable happened purely due to the fact that of the mode that erstwhile LIV came about, and it's unfortunate but that's what -- yet that's what we're dealing with now."

Much has been said astir the deficiency of competitory golf played betwixt the world's champion players week-in-week-out successful caller years. Day claimed that the solution would beryllium to trim the PGA Tour schedule, taking a leafage retired of the publication of their LIV rivals, who big conscionable 14 tournaments each season.

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"Yeah, it is tough. The 2 tours are difficult," helium added. "I mean, yet I deliberation astatine the extremity of the time you would probably, you know, if you wanted everyone to play successful a tournament, you person to shrink the docket down dramatically It utilized to beryllium 48 events connected the docket and you knew that it wasn't -- you weren't going to person the champion players successful the world."

"The lone mode you're going to get the champion players successful the satellite is to shrink the docket down dramatically, and I deliberation fundamentally that's benignant of what they're doing present wrong the Tour is that you person the Signature Events and you person the large championship."

"Then you person -- you propulsion successful your Memorials, your Bay Hills, your Tiger events, each that stuff, those bigger events wrong that connection three-year exemptions alternatively of the emblematic two-year exemptions. Then you mightiness sprinkle successful immoderate play tournaments that you really similar and play good in."

He continued: "Then the remainder of the guys that are not rather successful those Signature Events yet." Day is acceptable to commencement his quest for triumph successful Wednesday's opening round, alongside Hideki Matsuyama and Max Homa.