No decision has yet been taken on whether to increase the number of tournaments required to be a member of the European Tour.
Currently players must compete in a minimum of 11 events to be a tour member and therefore eligible for the likes of the Ryder Cup team and, from next season, the Ј5million season-ending Dubai World Championship which is open to the top 60 players on the Order of Merit - which will be renamed the Race to Dubai in 2009.
The possibility of increasing the requirement to 12 or 13 events was discussed by the tour's tournament committee during this week's Barclays Scottish Open, but a final decision will not be taken until the next meeting at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at the start of October.
Committee chairman Thomas Bjorn said: "We said from the beginning we weren't going to rush into any decisions, we are going to look at all the angles.
"There needs to be a commitment to the tour from our guys and in the past we've had that, but if we make it too easy to be a member of this tour then you have to look at in the long run are we shooting ourselves in the foot?
"That's what we have to look at and there are good arguments from both sides."
Tiger Woods has ruled out becoming a tour member but world number two Phil Mickelson said on Wednesday: "There are no plans in the immediate future but it's something I'm considering.
"I wouldn't say it's out of the realm of possibility."
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