Rory McIlroy will have a lot of support this week as he defends the Truist Championship title. Having already bagged three big titles this season, fans expect the in-form Irishman to demonstrate another masterclass a week before he visits one of his favorite courses for the PGA Championship. While McIlroy will face a tough challenge against the best golfers in the PGA Tour, he will still be competing in a far less diverse field at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. All thanks to the likes of Jay Monahan & Co.

The 2025 Truist Championship is a limited-field Signature event that only features the most elite golfers on the PGA Tour. Only 72 golfers. What’s more? The tournament doesn’t even have a cutline after 36 holes. World-beaters like McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg, Xander Schauffele, and Justin Thomas hold an advantage in such fields. However, the less prominent golfers who struggle to win consistently (we’re not talking about Collin Morikawa) face difficulties qualifying for such Signature events because of how Jay Monahan & the PGA Tour have set them up.

Lucas Glover shed light on his thoughts when Golf Channel’s Damon Hack asked Glover if he also wants Signature events to have deeper fields. To this, he 45-year-old golfer admitted, “Yeah. I’ve been on record saying I was not a fan of these when they hatched the idea of them. I didn’t like them then, and I have been in most of them since they started. And I still don’t like them.”  

Back in 2024, he had mentioned that since LIV Golf’s inception, golf hasn’t progressed as far as many assume it has. Instead, the conflict between PIF and the PGA Tour has only caused more hurdles for golfers, whether it be legitimacy for LIV Golf pros or struggles in qualifying for Signature events for their peers.

Coming back to the interview, the veteran golfer added, “I’ve been on the record saying I don’t like cutting to 100 cards, and I still don’t. I think it’s getting too exclusive, and we’re not giving enough opportunities. I’ve been pretty outspoken about that. I think the majority would agree with that. But, unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like the majority matters. It is what it is at this point, and we’re just dealing with it.” The runner-up to Scottie Scheffler a few days ago, Erik van Rooyen, shared his opinion about teeing off in such events.

Having qualified for this week’s Signature event, he mentioned how lower-ranked golfers like him are forced to push harder when receiving such opportunities. However, qualifying for such events is quite challenging for them as compared to “the Scotties of the world” and “the Rorys of the world.” He believes that having deeper fields in such big events allows everyone to get the opportunity to play with McIlroy and co.

Having said that, what else has Lucas Glover said in the past about Jay Monahan’s plans to improve the PGA Tour?

Lucas Glover’s strong criticism of Jay Monahan & Co. over the years

According to Lucas Glover, Jay Monahan & Co.’s idea to counter LIV Golf by introducing Signature events is “selfish” and a “money grab.” Speaking to GolfWeek, the veteran pro stated, “Nothing that has happened in the last two years in golf, in my opinion, that will help the game. I’ve yet to figure out what’s so bad out here that we had to do all the things we’ve done. [They] eliminated a lot of playing opportunities for some really good players.” Such limited fields discourage golfers who are sitting just outside the qualification criteria from pushing forward after each passing tournament. It won’t come as a surprise if fans start seeing the same set of 80 or so players playing in every Signature event for all year long.

Reflecting on how unfair it is for everyone else, the 45-year-old added that the Tour will “end up with 12-16 events around the world with the top players for the most money and wherever that money comes from — who knows whether it’s private equity or PIF — clearly, that’s where it is headed.” That sounds familiar, doesn’t it? It’s very similar to what PGA Tour’s rivals, LIV Golf, are doing with their 13-event-a-season format. Looking at the bigger picture, Jay Monahan & Co. are slowly following the same route as LIV Golf in order to beat them. So, who will really win at the end of the day if the PGA Tour itself becomes what it is trying to get rid of?