McIlroy wants majors spaced out 'like tennis'

Fresh off his second career FedEx Cup title, Rory McIlroy is already looking ahead to next season, when he'll try to erase his five-year winless drought in major championships. He argues that a drastic change to the PGA Tour schedule would help the sport in general.

"If the narrative becomes that the majors are the only important thing in golf, then that's dangerous, because are fans not going to care for the other 48 weeks of the year?" McIlroy said, according to James Corrigan of The Telegraph.

He suggested adopting a major schedule similar to the Grand Slams in tennis.

"If they are spaced so closely together, will fans only care from the second week of April to the third week in July?" he told the BBC. "I'd like to see them spaced out like tennis does. With the Australian Open in January and the US Open going on now, (they have) a nice nine-month window of relevancy."

The PGA Tour revised its schedule last season to ensure the FedEx Cup playoffs finished before the start of the NFL season. That meant playing a major championship in each month from April to July, a stretch that other top players have said is too condensed.

McIlroy expressed confidence that, even without a schedule adjustment, he'll eventually win another major.

"I feel that if I keep doing the things I'm doing," he told Corrigan, "sooner or later I'll get another (major) and all this noise will then go away."

The Northern Irishman, who claimed all four of his majors prior to 2015, will make his sixth attempt at completing the career grand slam at the 2020 Masters.