Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Show Notes

Matt Cook and Buttsy kick off with a preview of the Fall Golf Season discussing emerging talent and veteran presence in the series. The branding of the Fall series is compared to the Korn Ferry tour, followed by a comprehensive Procore Championship preview, including Sahith Theegala's chances. They then shift to LIV Golf Chicago, exploring player dynamics, standings, and Anthony Kim's situation. The Swannies Style segment announces a major GIVEAWAY! Lastly the guys cover Bernhard Langer's anchoring controversy, leading to suggestions for new putter anchoring rules. The episode wraps up with a debate on rule 10.1b, Langer's technique, and acknowledgments.

(0:00) Welcome to the Pull Hook Golf podcast
(1:54) Fall Series Preview
(15:29) Branding of the Fall Series and Korn Ferry Tour comparison
(20:10) Comprehensive Procore Championship preview
(29:34) Sahith Theegala's chances at Procore Championship
(30:16) LIV Golf Chicago preview, player dynamics, and speculation
(39:58) LIV Golf Chicago standings and Anthony Kim's situation
(45:35) Swannies Style segment
(54:13) Golf's Anchorman: Bernhard Langer
(57:02) Champions Tour's stance and media's role in anchoring issue
(1:00:13) Clarifying rule 10.1b and Bernhard Langer's putting technique debate
(1:05:59) Recap of Episode Topics and Sponsor Acknowledgement

Show Transcript

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Welcome back, everybody, to Pull Hook Golf, the
podcast.

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I'm your host, Matt Cook.

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We've got our co-host back with us this week,
Mister Buttsy himself, the Buttsy on Instagram

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But tonight's episode, we've got the fall
series once again, folks.

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We talked a little bit about it last week.

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We got a little bit more of a preview this
week.

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We've also got the upcoming Fortinet
Championship.

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That is the that was, trying to think of the
technology company's name from last year that

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it was because I got into this whole thing as
to, like, the pronunciation of it.

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But this year, it's Fortinet.

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Pretty easy.

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But that's in Napa Valley, folks.

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So people are gonna be going to the French
Laundry, drinking their wines, having a great

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time.

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We've got the upcoming LIV Golf Chicago, which
seems like it's gonna be a little bit more

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stressful of an event.

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We're gonna talk about that.

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Then we've got the Swannies style segment.

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So, folks, make sure to hang on for us until
the Swannies style segment because we got a

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huge announcement that is going to be the
Swannies style segment.

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So this is gonna be different.

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I'll just give you a little hint right now.

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It might be a giveaway, and there might be some
details around that.

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And there might be a new promo code as well
that gets you even more money off at

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swannies.co.

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So make sure to hang on to there.

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And then we've got Trot Golfer segment.

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I am dedicating this one to you, my man.

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It is the Bernard Langer anchoring.

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Absolutely anchoring segment tonight.

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We're finally gonna dive into this.

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This has been a lifelong mission for Trot
Golfer, with Bernard Langer, and it was kinda

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cool.

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Trot was getting into it with Bob Estes, which
was pretty interesting on the X.

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You gotta put Bernard Langer's face on Will
Ferrell's for the movie cover for Anchorman,

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and, like, put that up for the promo.

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Oh my god.

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That's great.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You gotta put That's gonna be the cover
tomorrow.

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Oh, wait a second.

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I see that.

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That's gonna be great.

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Way to go, Buttsy.

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Yeah.

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That's what a start.

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Alright.

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Let's get into the fall series because this
whole thing, I've kind of as I've looked into

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this more and more and more, and I had an
interview that is gonna be coming out with

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Parker McLachlin, short game chef, PGA Tour
winner, so on and so forth.

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But now he's like a short game guru.

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But he was a guy that literally he wasn't one
of these top players.

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Right?

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So he's one of these guys that was hanging on
to his card just trying to make it to another

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year.

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You know, that one win was huge for him.

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But this fall series is kinda like, it's time.

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It's the proving ground for the new talent so
that they can actually get in an event or two

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and potentially win because a lot of the top
guys are not playing in these weeks.

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And, partially, I like the fact that and I'm
gonna give the tour some credit here.

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I like the fact that the tour has stopped the,
carryover season.

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So it's no longer the fall series counts
towards next year.

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Now the fall series is just in and of itself.

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And that part of it, I actually really like now
that this isn't part of the FedEx Cup points

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for next year.

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It does help with the, like, top ten for the
Aon Next.

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So that is if anybody's not familiar with the
Aon Next 10, which that just sounds like a

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video game, that is how people It

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does.

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It's how players get into the Signature Series
events.

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It's like the top ten points winners or points
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points, right, for the FedEx Cup and so forth.

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But they'll gain points this fall.

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That's gonna help them heading into next season
Signature Series events.

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So that's the only thing it's gonna help with.

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Doesn't help towards the FedEx Cup rankings or
anything like that for 2025.

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So I've kind of relooked at this where, you
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like Kevin Streelman, for instance, look at the
Signature Series events very negatively.

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It's not something that's gonna help the
broader PGA Tour.

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It's only going to help the top seventy
players, let's say, or seventy-two is the

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minimum for next year.

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So my question to you, Buttsy, with all of that
being said, what's your take on this little

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fall series?

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Do you like this that it's almost like the new
talent or the guys towards the bottom of the

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PGA Tour rankings?

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This is like their season now.

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You know, I liken it to baseball.

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Right?

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Baseball has three tiers.

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They have well, they have four tiers.

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Yeah.

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Single A, Double A, Triple A.

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And then you get called up and, like and then
and then even after you get called up, you

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gotta you gotta really earn your spot to stay
in the fucking big leagues.

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Yeah.

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You can go back and forth.

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You can get DFA'd as well.

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And I'm not saying I agree with what they're
doing, but if you look at it through that

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optic, I don't know.

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Like, why is that such a big fucking deal?

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You have Korn Ferry, how many guys that
graduate from Korn Ferry Tour every year, this

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would be a good stat to look up, keep their
card the following year?

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What percentage of them?

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Because I know when it used to be when you used
to just go get your PGA Tour card and you were,

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like, on tour when you got through Q School, it
was, like, some stupid percentage, like, 95%

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didn't keep their card.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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I wonder what percentage of Korn Ferry
graduates that get a card, keep it the next

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year.

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And if that's a high number, maybe it's not
such a bad idea to then have another

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intermediary spot for them, like, on the PGA
Tour.

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They're on tour, but now you gotta earn your
way into the real big leagues, which is those

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signature series events.

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Makes sense.

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And here's the thing though.

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Like, Harrison Endycott won the Q School last
year.

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Right?

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Now I'm getting away from a little bit from the
Korn Ferry side, but from Q School and couldn't

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get like, couldn't play in a lot of these
events to start off the year.

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So, like, for somebody like him, it really
takes a long time, like, to get to the point to

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where you can play in some of these
tournaments.

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And that's,

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how do you get into the top 70 quickly?

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You gotta win.

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But, I mean, that's the problem with being a
new player on tour now is that all these

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signature series events and a lot of the other
events are kinda stacked in where a lot of the

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players can't get in that are from Q School,
from Korn Ferry, that are graduates and so

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forth.

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So it is tough for these guys to be able to go
and get into a signature series event,

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especially in the beginning of the year.

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So it kinda pushes them now towards those
secondary events, kinda like what you're

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saying, the tiers.

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You know, when there's a signature series event
sometime, there is a corresponding event that's

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happening down, gosh, in the Dominican Republic
or some of these other more exotic areas, I'll

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say, while those tournaments are going on.

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Right?

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That's for the lower, like, the lower-tier
players that are towards the bottom of the

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rankings.

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Now in addition to that, they also have this
fall series that they get to play in and kinda,

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you know, a lot of the top talent isn't playing
in these, so it really becomes more so for

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them.

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And I think the tour could brand it as such.

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Like, I just feel like there's so much
opportunity

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for them to something else.

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Yeah.

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Like, I mean, I just think of WWE.

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It's like WWE Next.

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It's like PGA Tour's future

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Proving Grounds or whatever you wanna call it.

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Like, I don't know.

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Yeah.

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I'm with you 100% on that.

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It just doesn't really feel like it's being
promoted properly or but when I looked at it,

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that's what it is.

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Like, that's what these next weeks are really
going to be about.

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And how many events do we have, like, where
they're trying to basically put their name in

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the sand to get into a signature event?

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Like, how many we got?

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For the fall series, no.

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There's more than just four.

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I mean, it pretty much runs through until
December, basically.

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So you got Procore, that's this week, then
you've got a week off for the Presidents Cup,

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then you've got, let's see, Sanderson Farms.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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Sanderson Farms in October, that first week of
October.

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Then we've got that new event in Black Desert
in Utah.

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That thing

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looks

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sick.

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I wanna play golf out there so bad, dude.

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Exactly.

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So that's gonna be interesting, of a golf
tournament.

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You know, Tony Finau's gotta play in that one.

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The Shriners Children's Open, a lot of guys
like to play in that.

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Then you've got Zozo.

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So Zozo is gonna be the first one that isn't
necessarily for those guys.

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So but that first group of tournaments,
Procore, 1, 2, 3, 4.

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I mean, you called it four.

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But then you get down to the Worldwide
Technology Championship.

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That's another one that's gonna be easier to
get into down in Cabo.

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That's at Tiger's course at Diamante.

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Then you got the Butterfield Bermuda
Championship.

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Once again, lot of guys can get into that.

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Then you've got the RSM Classic, with that one
in Sea Island.

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Now I know a lot of guys playing that, but then
you've got the Hero World Challenge.

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So, basically through November, you've got a
lot of opportunities.

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So let's count it up.

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

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So you got 7 tournaments for these

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young guys.

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Is there a bar?

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Like, is there a defined bar?

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If I am in the top 20, like, if I average in
the top 20 for, let's say, I start in all those

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events, am I gonna get into the signature
series?

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Where's the where's the metric at?

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Right?

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Like, that's what I'm saying.

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So, like, it would be cool to know, that there
is kind of a benchmark that you need to hit

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being a lower-tier player to kinda get the
call-up, so to speak, and get into Signature

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events if you play well enough.

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Now I know that could be a win and then, you
know, 31st and then a you know what I mean?

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But the average, where do you need to be
sitting after all those starts to get into

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Signature Series?

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Yeah.

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So that's

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what it should be like.

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I totally agree with you.

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The one thing that I will say in addition to
that is when it comes to, and Trot Golfer

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mentions it here, a lot of veterans are playing
this week.

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Well, a lot of veterans play in this fall
series that are lower in the rankings.

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So I guess it's not technically just young
future talent.

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Right?

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It's also guys that are trying to get their
game back up in the rankings or get themselves

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back up in the rankings that have played well
in the past and are veterans on the PGA Tour

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like a Kevin Streelman, like a Camilo Villegas
last year.

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Because I was looking at some of the winners of
these events.

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Right?

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So

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Yeah.

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One, you've got Sahith Theegala won the
Fortinet Championship last year.

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That's where they're playing this week.

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That was his very first victory.

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So boom.

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Right there.

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Young talent gave him an opportunity to win.

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Then you've got Sanderson Farms.

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Luke List ends up winning that one.

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So a little bit of a veteran, I would say, out
of Luke List.

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Not maybe that that's probably not the best
example.

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Then you've got the Shriners, where Tom Kim
won.

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Okay?

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So that was somebody who's won previously.

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Then I'm gonna skip over the Zozo.

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The Worldwide Technology Championship, Erik van
Rooyen won.

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Then you've got Butterfield Bermuda
Championship, and this is where, once again,

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you kinda see that veteran player, Camilo
Villegas, wins after years of not winning on

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tour.

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So that was a great opportunity for him to
kinda get back into the fold, keep his PGA Tour

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card.

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And then at the RSM Classic, you had rookie
Ludvig Åberg win there.

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So it's kinda this mix between these old guys
as well as these young players.

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So there's gotta be something branding-wise.

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I haven't thought about it enough heading into
this conversation to be like, hey.

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This is what the PGA Tour should be promoting
this as.

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And I don't know.

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I guess I guess I like it.

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I just wonder at the end of the year, like, in
the signature events, are you really enhancing

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the product?

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Like, are those events really now showcasing
the players that are playing their absolute

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best, the best in the world?

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No.

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And that's who should be playing in those.

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Like, is that a good representation of that?

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I don't know.

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You know what?

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That goes back to the branding of this whole
thing, that it's the PGA Tour, but they could

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have it branded as something slightly
different.

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I think fall series doesn't it obviously, it's
seasonality, but as Run PMC says, it's silly

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season, which was Fall.

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Something I called it years back on the
podcast.

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I was like, silly season is upon us, and this
is what this fall series really is.

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And that was when it was carrying over into the
next year for FedEx Cup points, standings, and

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all that.

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That's why we had a Justin Thomas appearance
last year, and now he's, I don't, I believe, is

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he playing in it this week?

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I'm not quite sure.

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I'll have to double check.

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I mean, maybe they were super tricky about it.

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Maybe it's called the fall series, not only
because it's fall, but because it's for the

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players that fell off.

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You know?

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You ever think about that?

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I love it.

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Like, they could call this, like I think what
we labeled this segment kinda as, and I don't

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even know if I mentioned that at the beginning
of introducing this segment, but the proving

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grounds of what you said as well.

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And maybe it's a proving grounds, young versus
old.

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Yeah.

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Some sort of zest to it to let people know that
this is very much these guys battling it out to

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get back to the top or to have their first
chance at being, you know, one of the best.

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Yeah.

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For sure.

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And Kyle over at Carpal and Kai's, this isn't
the presidential debate.

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Goddamn right, it's not.

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He said presidential debate.

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This isn't the presidential debate.

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And then Tri Golfer throws in there Sean
O'Hair.

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What a journeyman.

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Like, these are some of the guys that you see
end up getting their careers back on track,

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being able to keep their cards.

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And I just I kinda endear this side to the
season because of the potential that's there.

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I'm with you that it's not the absolute best
teeing it up against each other.

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But is that I mean, we saw it funny.

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And I keep going back to this in my head.

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I'm like, the first part of the year, that
really was the golf year.

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Right?

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Kinda ended in June.

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Now all of a sudden, we're like, alright.

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Now we've got the rest of the guys that are on
tour.

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What do you think?

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You seem perplexed.

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I said, with the with the signature series
events, basically, by the time we get to June,

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golf season's pretty much over.

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Yeah.

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For, like, having the absolute top talent going
against each other.

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And I and I guess that's kinda by design, but
then from there, now we head into a season to

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where a lot of the top guys aren't gonna be
playing.

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No.

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We got the shitters.

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We got the shitters battling it out in the
coliseum, you know, trying to get back to the

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big leagues.

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That's what it is.

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That's what they're trying to make of it.

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Right?

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Like, there's no other explanation for it.

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No.

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And that's why I think they're doing it a
disservice by calling it the fall series on the

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PGA Tour.

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Yeah.

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You you I don't know.

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The PGA Tour is so nice.

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Right?

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They're not gonna I don't know.

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Everybody's feelings are hurt.

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Hey, shitters.

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Get over here.

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You're playing these events.

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You don't belong with the big boys.

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Here comes the bottom bucket.

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It's the bottom bottom bucket season.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There's gotta be a better word for that.

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Yeah.

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We can work on that.

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I mean, proving grounds is pretty good.

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You know, that's what you're doing.

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You're Yeah.

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That is yourself.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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These are the proving grounds.

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Well

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Welcome to PGA Tour proving grounds.

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Yeah.

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Proving grounds event coming up.

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Oh, it's a proving grounds event?

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Okay.

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Cool.

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Who's, who's on the bubble?

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Right?

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Who needs to play well this week to secure a
spot in the signature event?

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Potentially change their lives playing for all.

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And the cash is like, what is a what is a win
in the fall series versus a signature event

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money wise?

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Big difference.

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Big.

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Like yeah.

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They're like I I mean, they're decent purses.

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I mean, the guys are still winning a mil, like,
in a mil and a half depending on the event.

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They're, like, between, I just saw one for $6
million.

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So this one this week is $6 million.

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Then you got $7.6 million at Sanderson Farms.

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Then at Black Desert, you got $7.5 million.

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Shriners is $7 million.

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Zozo is $8.5 million, but that's gonna be more
of your top guys on tour.

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$7.2 million for the Worldwide Technology, $6.9
million for Bermuda, and then it ends with the

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RSM at $8 million.

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So it's not like, that's pretty good purses,
but it's not Yep.

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The Signature Series events.

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You know what I mean?

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Or what do you and what do you win on Korn
Ferry?

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Like, $400,000, something like that?

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Yeah.

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Probably.

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I think around that.

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So so so they've created, you know, a gap
wedge, so to speak, in professional golf.

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Korn Ferry, you made it.

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You're playing with the big boys, but you're
not quite there.

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Like, you're not yeah.

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And you gotta stay you gotta stay up there to
play for all that money.

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I don't know.

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I like it.

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I kinda I kinda like just what we've talked
about, Proving Grounds.

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Yeah.

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Proving Grounds.

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It's the season Proving Grounds.

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Yeah.

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It's the season for guys to prove themselves.

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Yeah.

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And I think that's how it should be bring I
think you could actually build up something big

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around that.

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You could.

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You could create a whole lot of drama.

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You could cover journeymen.

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Oh, that's they're like