It looks like the PGA Tour won’t be catching a breather anytime soon. Every few weeks, something comes up, igniting fresh debates. Last week, it was the Ryder Cup uniform; this week, it’s the addition of a new signature event. Agreed that there is a push to keep pace with LIV Golf, but constant changes can end up acting as obstacles for the very players they’re meant to empower.

If you were not following up with the news, the PGA Tour has announced the addition of a new Signature Series event at Trump National Doral, called the Miami Championship. The event is scheduled for April 30 to May 3, 2026, and will be part of the 2026 FedExCup season. “Inspired by our players and fans, we’re accelerating the Tour’s evolution and ushering in a new era of innovation on and off the course,” said Tour chief executive Brian Rolapp.

Recently, the PGA Tour has been emphasizing on adapting its formats and overall operations to stay relevant and exciting. Part of such an initiative is the formation of a Future Competition Committee led by Tiger Woods. But what Rolapp does not understand is that introducing another Signature event will add to an already hectic schedule. This is exactly what Gary Williams warned about.

“What the PGA Tour has done by inserting another signature series event at the end of the month of April, before the Truist Championship, makes me think what’s on the mind of Truist this morning…If you don’t think that there will not be some attrition to participation of the best players in the world during that stretch…you haven’t been paying attention,” said the famous host on 5 Clubs.

And he is completely right. April is symbolic in golf. The Masters tournament at Augusta signals the start of the golf season in full swing across the US. But if the Tour adds on another Signature event, the entire schedule will be jampacked. Because it will be smushed between The Masters, The RBC Heritage, Zurich Classic, Truist Championship, and the PGA Championship. In simpler words, two majors and three signature events will be scheduled in a six-week period! And due to this, the many big names may likely skip some of these events, leading to attrition.

“We saw this year that one of the true real stars on the PGA Tour made choices to not play in multiple signature series events, Rory McIlroy. Here’s one thing I would say about Quail Hollow in the truest. A couple things they have going for him. Rory’s relationship, his level of success here, and then Scottie [Scheffler] having won the PGA Championship here. You would think that he would play. And those are the two most important,” added Williams.

Here’s the thing: Truist is already investing $200 million in the PGA Tour, so it will face severe fallout if the players don’t show at Quail Hollow Club. But as per Williams, that is less likely to happen. McIlroy earlier this week said, “I might skip less next year. I might skip the same amount, I don’t know,” but still there are chances of him playing in Truist because he has a high level of success at that course, having won there four times (2010, 2015, 2021, and 2024). And then there is Scottie Scheffler, who did miss Truist this year but also won this year’s PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, so there’s a slight reason to expect him back. The event, on the other hand, that might suffer will be the Zurich Classic, as it is a team event.

The Miami Championship is bound to draw plenty of attention — whether positive or negative — given that the course is owned by U.S. President Donald Trump. Adding to the intrigue, the event marks the PGA Tour’s return to Miami after a decade, a stretch during which the venue hosted LIV Golf Miami for the past four years. The famed Blue Monster course hosted PGA Tour events from 1962 to 2016 before being dropped from the schedule when title sponsor Cadillac declined to renew and a replacement couldn’t be found.

Whatever the motive of the PGA Tour may be, golfers have mixed reactions about playing in Signature events.

Players debate workload vs. opportunity

Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas have both acknowledged the heavy toll of stacking another signature event onto the Tour’s already dense spring schedule. “It’s quite a bit of a workload for the players to play that much golf in that stretch,” he said. He admitted the workload could be overwhelming, but softened the concern by pointing out that most of the tournaments are clustered on the East Coast, making travel less of a burden. Thomas, meanwhile, wrestled with the larger purpose of these events.

“I’m a believer in the sense of all of us playing in all these events is kind of the purpose of them.” He said that ideally every top player would show up at all of them, but in reality, certain courses simply don’t suit everyone’s game. Thomas recalled skipping the WGC in China for that reason. Tommy Fleetwood, however, offered a more optimistic angle. He framed the run of events not as a grind but as an opportunity: a hot streak across this stretch could redefine a player’s season. “I think we all have an option to play or not play whatever we want, so you can schedule it however you want,” Fleetwood said.

The Miami Championship’s addition highlights the fine line between opportunity and overload. Who knows if it will be a blessing or a burden? What do you think? Let us know in the comments below.