Sources: Phoenix, 3 more in $20M PGA Tour tier

RIDGELAND, S.C. -- The PGA Tour is acceptable to denote this week that the WM Phoenix Open, RBC Heritage, Wells Fargo Championship and Travelers Championship volition beryllium among 13 elevated events with astatine slightest $20 cardinal purses successful 2023, sources confirmed to ESPN connected Tuesday.

They volition articulation 9 different elevated events successful which the PGA Tour's apical players person committed to play successful to beef up those fields, arsenic the Tour continues to conflict the upstart LIV Golf circuit for the champion players successful the world.

Golfweek archetypal reported details of the 4 caller elevated events.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan previously announced that the Sentry Tournament of Champions, Players Championship, 3 Invitationals (Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational and Memorial), WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and the 3 FedEx Cup playoff events (FedEx St. Jude Championship, BMW Championship and Tour Championship) would beryllium among the elevated events.

The different 4 elevated tournaments are expected to rotate connected an yearly ground to bring stronger fields astatine further events erstwhile the PGA Tour returns to a calendar-based docket successful 2024.

The docket changes were portion of recommendations made by players aft a gathering led by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy earlier the BMW Championship successful Wilmington, Delaware, successful August. Top Tour players person committed to playing successful each of the 13 elevated events, 4 large championships (if they're eligible) and 3 different Tour events each season.

Two of the caller elevated events successful 2023 volition beryllium played the week aft a major. The RBC Heritage, scheduled for April 13-16 astatine Harbour Town Golf Links successful Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, is the week aft the Masters. The Travelers Championship, scheduled for June 22-25 astatine TPC River Highlands successful Cromwell, Connecticut, is the week aft the U.S. Open, which volition beryllium played astatine Los Angeles Country Club.

"You're elevating large events," Spain's Jon Rahm said. "They're each astonishing play courses, each astonishing events, a batch of history, each of them. So they're worthy of it. Hilton Head and Travelers aft majors? I'm not keen connected playing aft a major, but I've seen radical bash it and I've seen radical bash well, truthful there's nary crushed wherefore you can't."