PGA Tour Player Advisory Council voting is underway

Ballots for the PGA Tour Participant Advisory Council had been despatched to all exempt members on Wednesday.

Eight members of the PGA Tour might be elected by the membership, with a further eight members to be appointed by the participant administrators to serve on the PAC.

The PAC advises and consults with the PGA Tour Coverage Board (Board of Administrators) and Commissioner Jay Monahan on points affecting the Tour. The PAC additionally serves as a feeder system for future board members, with the PAC Chairman being elected to fill future openings on the board as participant administrators full their time period.

Golfweek reviewed a replica of the poll, which explains that PGA Tour members have been positioned into 5 teams primarily based on the order of their end on the 2022-23 FedEx Cup Fall Level Listing. The highest 10 gamers from the 2022-23 DP World Tour rating and the highest 30 from the Korn Ferry Tour factors checklist, together with the highest 5 from 2023 PGA Tour Qualifying College have been positioned within the closing two teams. As well as, any exempt participant not qualifying below considered one of these classes has been randomly distributed among the many first 5 teams.

A PGA Tour spokesperson confirmed that voting ends on Jan. 12 at 5 p.m. ET. The Tour mentioned it can announce outcomes and people gamers (usually three) who might be working for PAC Chairman the next week.

Listed below are the gamers who served on the PAC in 2023 (in alphabetical order):

Ryan Armour
Sam Burns
Corey Conners
Rickie Fowler
Brice Garnett
Brian Harman
Max Homa
Mackenzie Hughes
Shane Lowry
Maverick McNealy
Keith Mitchell
Henrik Norlander
Scottie Scheffler
Adam Scott (elected chairman)
Kevin Streelman
Will Zalatoris

Scott will substitute Charley Hoffman on January 1, 2024, as a participant director on the Coverage Board, serving a three-year time period (2024-26). The opposite participant administrators are Peter Malnati (2023-25), Webb Simpson (2023-25), Jordan Spieth (2024), Patrick Cantlay and Tiger Woods.