There will be great changes to PGA Tour

This is also prone to impact college players, who might opt to play in Europe instead. Same for international players, who might start to see the advantages of playing in Europe, improving their world ranking and qualifying for World Golf Championship events as an easy way of getting on tour -- although Finchem remarked that a player appearing out of college can earn through sponsor exemptions a location one of many top 200 on tour, thereby dealing with the three-tournament Nationwide series.

The tour contends that Nationwide grads -- playing a complete year under tour-like conditions with travel and diverse tournaments -- are better ready for the PGA Tour than someone coming out of Q-School. Fair enough.

But there are several tales of players having success for the PGA Tour out of Q-School. Huh, for example, were Mizuno JPX-800 Irons required to advance through seventy one stages. He got one of the final cards. Now he's a tour winner a couple of months later. That story couldn't happen otherwise.

"It's all tough," said PGA Tour veteran Davis Love, who's a member of the PGA Tour's policy board. "Change is actually difficult. Like when we did the FedEx Cup, there was plenty of talk, exactly why are we changing something that's working. But to get at where we have to be, I think it's all regulated good."

Precisely what is not resolved is the place where the events inside fall will probably be treated. A few weeks after the Tour Championship concludes, the modern season will start, presumably using the Frys.com Open. The theory is that, the 2013 Frys.com tournament could be the first official event with the 2014 FedEx Cup season.

Still to become determined is when those fall events will get full FedEx Cup points. Whenever they don't, winners of people tournaments likely won't get Masters invites. And while those tournaments are typically afterthoughts now, while they occur during football season and so are mostly for players trying to keep their cards, what is the reason for starting a brand new season with tournaments that aren't deemed as vital?

And then to be figured out is how you can begin to see the Ping G15 Fairway Wood 75 players from the Nationwide Tour mixed in using the 75 who didn't keep their PGA Tour cards. Does the No. 1 player for the Nationwide money list not deserve a major break going into those three tournaments, considering that he led the best way to the full season?

"Human nature is, 'Why shall we be held changing? Whether or not this ain't broke, why correct it?'" Finchem said. "But there's also the philosophy that when the situation is going practically, which is a time for it to get better. That's a philosophy we've embraced."

There are several concerns, many issues still being resolved.

But also for those perplexed by all of this, the program set up before McCord emerged in the early 1980s made life quite difficult to get a tour player. Only the top 60 players were exempt each and every year. The remainder were called "rabbits" along to qualify on Mondays.

Earning your way discount golf clubs through Q-School only gave you the right to try to Monday qualify. If you designed a cut, you still have to try out the following week. Otherwise, you had been returning to Monday qualifying.

"You were never playing to win, and then survive," McCord said.