While many on the PGA Tour have raised eyebrows this week following Rory McIlroy's decision to skip the first leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs at the St. Jude Championship, one player director on the Tour board isn't sounding the alarm on protocol changes.

This was not an unexpected move from McIlroy ahead of the tournament in Memphis, Tennessee. He's sitting out in an effort to reduce his overall workload on the season and said last year he planned to follow a previous script since playoff standings likely would not be critically impacted.

"I think it's too hard of a thing to make guys have to play," Webb Simpson said during an interview with GolfWeek . "We're still a sport where you can play when you want to play."

Simpson's one of several players who has passed on FedEx Cup Pla

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