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By Julio Cesar Valdera Morales
Contributing Sports Writer
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As the implementation of cuts to PGA Tour membership and event fields approaches, tensions are growing over the possibility of being left out. Lucas Glover has been among the leading opponents of this measure and has not held back every opportunity he has had to speak out on the issue.
That was exactly what happened this Wednesday during an interview with the show Golf Today.
Glover once again spoke out against the new rules, which go into effect in the 2026 season, and did so by lashing out at the PGA Tour's leadership:
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"Limiting access is not a way to grow the talent coming into the PGA Tour, in my opinion, and making fields smaller doesn't increase competition. That's impossible. It doesn't make any sense," he said.
"We're the only sports organization that's saying that less players means more competition and that's been my soapbox. Every other sport has widened their fields, broadened their playoffs, more games, more teams, expanding."
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One of the main objectives of the new measures is to mitigate the problem of slow play affecting the PGA Tour. Glover has been adamant that accelerating the pace of play is possible without reducing the number of members or events.
"We're using pace of play as a crutch to say we need less players and I just don't agree with that and I think that's short-sighted and honestly not the right way to go about it," he said.
Earlier this season, Glover proposed an eight-point plan to speed up the pace of play without going as far as the drastic measures adopted by the PGA Tour. The most controversial of his proposals was to ban the green-reading technique known as AimPoint, which was vehemently opposed by Collin Morikawa.
The truth is that the PGA Tour's new rules will officially go into effect at the start of the 2026 season, but their impacts are already being felt. Only the top 100 in the FedEx Cup rankings will retain their card for next season, 25 players less than the quota in place through 2024.
It's worth noting that Glover is currently ranked 31st in the FedEx Cup, so he has pretty much secured his job for next year, unless he has a complete meltdown over the next eight weeks.
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