Report: PGA Tour to loosen player social media restrictions

The PGA Tour is preparing an updated social media policy that will loosen player restrictions, Front Office Sports reported on Friday.

The rule changes reportedly will expand the content that golfers are allowed to post across their personal channels while they are on site for PGA Tour events. The FOS report cited three specific changes:

--Players can distribute three minutes of content created on-site during competition days, up from two minutes under the old rules.

--Players can post broadcast footage of up to six shots per round (for a total of one minute of highlights) after a tournament round's TV coverage ends, up from one shot previously.

--Players can post more extensive TV highlights 72 hours after an event ends: eight minutes allowed per video (up from five) and 120 total minutes on a YouTube channel (up from 60).

The report said the updated rules were shared Tuesday with a Player Advisory Council fans subcommittee meeting in Charlotte, home of this week's Truist Championship at Quail Hollow.

The new policy also address YouTube monetization at a time when LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau said he would consider turning his YouTube side hustle into a full-time gig if his league folds.

At this week's LIV Golf Virginia event, DeChambeau said he believed the content on his popular YouTube channel would violate PGA Tour policies.

"If I was to film a video during the week of one of their events with a content creator or a celebrity, that would be in violation, to my knowledge," he said, per Skratch. "... It's their policy, they didn't let me do it when I was on there."

--Field Level Media