Major Pandemonium: 2021 Will Have Six Majors
Six majors in one year? It’s actually six majors in one “season”, and it will be fantastic.
With the discombobulation of COVID19, and there’s a name we hope to never hear again, we are losing three majors: the Masters, the British Open and the U.S. Open for this “year.” But guess what? Two of those aren’t really “lost.”
What it really does is to give us Major Pandemonium. In 2021 we will have six majors.
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The PGA will be played in what was the week for Olympic golf, in August. It’s going to be the sole major of the 2020 PGA Tour season. The others get pushed forward.
The U.S. Open will be, supposedly, the week after the Tour Championship, and the Masters will be two weeks before Thanksgiving. That puts them almost at the beginning and almost at the end of the fall season of the 2021 PGA Tour calendar. Never has a fall schedule looked so enticing.
Assuming that the PGA Tour events go off as planned beginning in June, and no one knows that for sure yet, the PGA Tour schedule will finish with just 36 events instead of 40-something as originally planned. The FedExCup will finish on Labor Day, and the 2021 season will start the next week with the Safeway Open.
But all this schedule shuffling has had an upside that no one has even considered yet:
It gives us six majors instead of four for the 2021 season.
It also dramatically changes the FedEx points for 2021.
It’s going to be major pandemonium.
In addition, in 2021, according a PGA Tour source, there will be two sets of FedExCup points for the Masters – the 2020 and the 2021 – and two sets of FedExCup points for the U.S. Open — the 2020 and the 2021. Confused? Sure, why not.
Don’t get out your calculators or white boards yet, but it’s going to definitely make a difference in 15 months. That’s because the Masters and U.S. Open account for 600 FedEx points each. It means the math of who is at the top of the standings of the FedEx Cup by Thanksgiving, by spring and by the start of the 2021 FedEx Playoffs is going to be dramatically changed. It’s going to make us care about it more.
Now there are other things that could happen, including more changes to the recently announced, modified schedule.
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For instance, if the PGA can’t be played in August as planned — you never know about California — it could slide into another berth weeks later in the 2021 schedule, giving us seven majors and 1800 extra FedEx points in 2021. That would really make the coming season one for the record books. Who wants to miss that? Talk about major overload. It’s going to be fantastic!