Friday 30 December 2016 07:03, UK
From new tournaments on the schedule to new formats to enjoy, we look at five golf highlights to look forward to in 2017.
New major venues
After four familiar courses on the major circuit in 2016, there are two venues hosting one of golf's "big four" for the first time over the next 12 months.
The US Open heads to Erin Hill from June 15-18, a public golf course in Wisconsin which has never previously hosted a PGA Tour event but did hold the 2011 US Amateur Championship.
The PGA Championship then makes a maiden visit to the Quail Hollow Club, the North Carolina venue of the Wells Fargo Championship and home to the infamous "Green Mile" - dubbed one of the toughest closing stretches on the PGA Tour.
New destination for the WGC
For the first time since 2007, the opening World Golf Championship of the year will be played away from the Donald Trump-owned Doral Golf Resort.
Instead of a trip to Florida, the new-look WGC-Mexico Championship will be hosted by the Club de Golf Chapultepec in Mexico City.
Mexico is the seventh country to have hosted a World Golf Championship event since they were introduced in 1999 - following on from Spain, England, Ireland, the USA, Australia and China.
New money-spinning series
The European Tour has introduced a new look to their 2017 schedule, with the Rolex Series offering a minimum of seven tournaments with at least $7m in prize money.
Replacing the old Final Series used as the season-ending finale in recent seasons, the tournaments have received the financial boost in the hope of enticing stronger fields to take part.
Beginning at the BMW PGA Championship in May, the series will head back to the UK in July for the Irish Open and the Scottish Open before the Italian Open in October.
The stretch of tournaments will also include closing events in Turkey, South Africa and Dubai, with chief executive Keith Pelley confident of more events being added in the future.
New team format on the PGA Tour
The Zurich Classic of New Orleans will receive a drastic change in format from 2017, with the traditional individual event changing to a new two-man team event containing 160 players.
Henrik Stenson and Justin Rose will play alongside one another in the event, with Rickie Fowler already confirmed to team up with world No 1 Jason Day and more star names set to feature.
The first and third rounds will consist of foursomes, with the fourball format used for the other two days and a midway cut of the best 35 teams and ties.
New event for Europe
The European Tour has joined forces with its Australasia counterpart to promote a new-style tournament that will combine both strokeplay and matchplay formats.
Next February's World Super 6 Perth tournament will consist of three rounds of stroke-play, followed by a final matchplay phase that will include the leading 24 golfers after 54 holes.
Those left after the third round will then play in six-hole matchplay matches on Sunday, with a special knock-out hole for any matches finishing in a tie.
Pelley has said he hopes the new event will "encourage competitors to play aggressive and attacking golf."
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