Top players can't be everywhere, and fulfilling new PGA Tour playing requirements may keep some from prominent events overseas. Viktor Hovland won't defend a title this week in Dubai, likely because he'll be very busy very soon on the PGA Tour. PGA Tour fields are deeper, even when they don’t have strength at the top, and it has served to lessen the power of the DP World Tour events. Call it some of the unintended consequences of the new PGA Tour system, made all the more interesting because of the strategic alliance between the tour tours. But could there be a day when these big Middle East events gain some sort of co-sanctioning with the PGA Tour to allow for more PGA Tour members to play them?
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