PGA Tour confirms 16 players on 2024 PAC as 2 pros bid to replace Jordan Spieth

The PGA Tour has confirmed 16 players on its Player Advisory Council (PAC) for 2024 as well as two players in the mix to replace Jordan Spieth as PAC chairman in 2025. 

The PAC advises and consults with the PGA Tour Policy Board of directors and PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan on issues affecting the Tour. 

Tiger Woods is on the board of directors this season alongside Spieth, Patrick Cantlay, Peter Malnati, Adam Scott and Webb Simpson.

Rory McIlroy was on the board but he chose to step down at the end of 2023 in order to better focus on his game and to spend more time with his family outside the ropes. 

Monahan recently sent an email to players stating the five remaining player directors had elected Spieth to serve the remainder of McIlroy’s term, which expires at the end of 2024.

Spieth, 30, previously served two years on the Tour’s Player Advisory Council in 2017 and 2018 and was PAC Chairman in 2018.

He was then a player director from 2019-2021.

In a press release sent out by the Tour on 28 January 2024, the circuit confirmed its 16 players on the PAC for 2024.

The standout names include Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa, Justin Thomas and Sam Burns. 

This season will likely prove the most important year to be apart of the PGA Tour PAC as a result of the pending framework agreement between the circuit and the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF). 

Here are the players in alphabetical order: 

• Sam Burns
• Lanto Griffin
• Nick Hardy
• Brian Harman
• Max Homa
• Mackenzie Hughes
• Keith Mitchell
• Grayson Murray
• Seamus Power
• Scottie Scheffler
• Adam Schenk
• Kevin Streelman
• Nick Taylor
• Josh Teater
• Justin Thomas
• Camilo Villegas

The PGA Tour confirmed both Kevin Streelman and Camilo Villegas have been selected by the player directors to run for 2025 PAC chairman via election.

Voting will end on 27 February and the winner will replace Spieth and serve for three years starting on 1 January 2025. 

PRESS RELEASE: PGA TOUR announces 2024 Player Advisory Council pic.twitter.com/Hpb4qDUrq7

— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) January 28, 2024

Streelman, 45, is a two-time winner, while Villegas, 42, has won five times. 

Villegas won on the PGA Tour for the first time in nine years last November following an emotional victory at the 2023 Butterfield Bermuda Championship. 

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