PGA Tour Insights: A Discussion on Event Sizes and Purses

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00:00But I also want to ask you that you're finished at the Wells Fargo finishing sixth.

00:07Do you feel like because you beat a higher quality field, do you think you deserve to

00:13be paid what you were paid?

00:15And do you think the signature events moving forward should have more guys?

00:19Or do you think it's a reward for playing really well the year before?

00:23And then if you go out and play against the best players in the world and play well, hey,

00:28like this is, this is me.

00:29This is what I get because I beat the best guys.

00:33I think the, um, the intent of those events was good.

00:38I just think they've, they've kind of missed a little bit, I think.

00:42So back to your point, like the field sizes last year were actually like at Wells Fargo

00:49last year was one 56.

00:51It was one 56.

00:52Okay.

00:53I, I was just thinking, and I believe travelers as well was a big field, like one 56 as well.

01:00Like full field.

01:01Um, cause once you get to the summertime, you can, you can go one 56.

01:04And so, and I don't think one 56 is the answer, but I think like if you went, let's say to

01:12a hundred or 120 man field, it's like, I think 120 still feels elite to me.

01:17Like when you go to play Memorial, there's 120 guys to Bay Hill was always that way,

01:23you know?

01:24So I think that to me, again, I just think that the PGA tour is kind of pride itself

01:33on like, you kind of, you know, eat what you kill, right.

01:37And you have to go out there and earn it.

01:39And I think that Thursday, Friday and going out there and playing well to make the cut

01:44is part of professional golf.

01:46And so I kind of, I kind of like a blend of what we have right now and last year.

01:52So like maybe the fields aren't quite as big as last year, but they're not as small

01:56as they are now.

01:57Like, I don't think 70 players is the right answer.

02:00Like this weekend in Connecticut, you know, 70 players with no cut to me, you know, it'd

02:08be a better feel that one 20.

02:10I mean, there's, there's no doubt if you add the next 50 players, which would include guys

02:15like, you know, Mark Hubbard and some of these guys I've played great this year.

02:19You know, you have those guys, you have those guys to this field and the field becomes way,

02:24way better.

02:25And to win becomes a way bigger accomplishment.

02:28And, you know, to your point about like me at the Wells Fargo, like, I don't think that

02:34like, yeah, I played really well on a really tough golf course against great players, but

02:39did I earn all of that, all those points and that money by finishing that and that high

02:45in that tournament?

02:46I mean, it's probably a little bit inflated.

02:49I think the points are overdone.

02:53So much, right?

02:54Yeah.

02:55Like, I think they just, they had the right intent for those points and they, I know what

02:59they were trying to do, but they just, they, they'd missed the mark and went way too high

03:02to me.

03:03Like you finish 20, if you get a hundred, a hundred points, you're just like, that doesn't

03:08seem like I earned a hundred points, which is like, you know, going and finishing fifth

03:12that like, I don't know, Val spar.

03:17To me, like you finished fifth at Val spar or 20th at, you know, the Wells Fargo.

03:21I mean, they're not even close to the same thing.

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