Padraig Harrington questions ‘strangest’ PGA Tour ‘Monday Q’ decision ahead of Waste Management Phoenix Open [Video]

GOLF legend Padraig Harrington has questioned the PGA Tour’s decision to scrap Monday qualifying for seven of its tournaments on the 2025 schedule.

PGA Tour brass have scaled by the size of their fields by no longer have Monday qualifiers for certain events.

Monday qualifying (often called a ‘Monday Q’) is an official process on the PGA Tour.

It is a structured pathway for non-exempt players to earn a spot in the field for select PGA Tour events.

One of those events happens to be this week’s Waste Management Phoenix Open.

The event which attracts hundreds of thousand through its gates had ‘Monday Q’ for the past 70 years, but now that is a thing of the past with the tour’s latest eligibility criteria …