From the PGA Tour's standpoint, McIlroy believes less is more may be the way forward, urging the circuit's chiefs to "scale back" the tournament schedule. With nearly 50 PGA Tour-sanctioned events scheduled for 2025, the world No. 3 feels that it's simply too many to maintain viewer interest in the product.

Rory McIlroy will make his first PGA Tour appearance of the season this week at Pebble Beach and ahead of the event has called on the PGA Tour to scale back its schedule

Rory McIlroy will make his first PGA Tour appearance of the season at this week's AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am - and the superstar has called for a big change to the schedule

Rory McIlroy believes the PGA Tour has a schedule problem with the product being diminished and he has called on bosses to scale back the number of tournaments per season

Rory McIlroy said Tuesday he understands how the golf consumer might be fatigued with all the different forms of the game that now exist and even suggested lessening the number of events on the PGA Tour could help.

Rory McIlroy believes that golf fans could become "fatigued" by the wealth of options available to them and suggests there are "definitely too many" events on the current PGA Tour schedule.

Rory McIlroy said there’s space for different golf products but expressed concern for the game becoming overexposed.

Rory McIlroy has announced he will play significantly less golf this year - with the majority of the cuts set to be made on the PGA Tour in a blow for the organisation