When the PGA Tour introduced the wraparound schedule for the 2013-14 season it always had the feel of the lesser of various evils.
Essentially, the new schedule allowed the Tour Championship to be the big finish the circuit so desperately needed and wanted, and it also allowed the fall events, which had been relegated to an inconsequential wasteland, to create an ever-improving niche on the schedule.
There was an issue with timing, however.
Because there would be virtually no offseason between the Tour Championship and the new season, the circuit’s qualifying system had to be streamlined with the creation of the Web.