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Are Golfers Starting to Care About Winning the Summer Olympics?
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8/6/2024
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It's so strange to sit here and have so many conversations about live events with 48 plus
00:09
players or whatever, wherever that now 52 and talk about how, you know, these signature
00:15
events they're, they're, they're too small.
00:17
We want them to go like a hundred players and then to look at a field like this this
00:20
week, which I think was like 60 to enter the week.
00:23
And I think maybe two guys withdrew.
00:24
I might have the numbers a little bit off there, but you know, not a huge field at all
00:28
and say, yes, give that more points.
00:30
Again, I think it's to a certain degree, like I'll put my hand up and say, I'm a little
00:35
bit of a prisoner of the moment because all the cream rose to the top and the best guy
00:41
showed up.
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And so winning today's event was a massive, massive achievement.
00:47
I think there's gotta be a happy medium there.
00:49
It's gotta be more than 50 points to the winner.
00:51
I don't know how many points it is and I don't know if it's like where it lands against a,
00:57
you know, against a major, against a signature event.
01:00
It's tough to say, but it definitely, if you have more, and I think what's going to happen
01:05
to is they're going to, they're going to kind of springboard off of what we just saw today
01:11
and really kind of make some changes and adjustments as we kind of, you know, head to the next
01:15
summer Olympics.
01:16
Because I think that, you know, this thing started what, you know, in Brazil in 2016
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was the first iteration of this thing that you had, Tokyo was supposed to be in 2020.
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They ended up being in 2021.
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So this is like the third time in, if I remember correctly, back in Brazil, the same guy, Rory,
01:33
who was, you know, talking after this event about what an amazing experience this was,
01:37
was like poo-pooing the idea of playing in Brazil.
01:39
It's like, this is a fabricated thing.
01:41
Well, I think it was the Zika virus.
01:43
You remember that?
01:44
Exactly.
01:45
Yeah.
01:46
All the, all the guys that were like thinking about having kids were like worried.
01:48
Totally.
01:49
It's, it's, you know, and I don't, I don't blame him for it at all.
01:53
It was funny.
01:54
I was sitting, watching the final round today with my wife and Amanda was like, so do guys
01:58
care about this?
01:59
Like what, like what's, what's the significance of this event?
02:02
And it's so strange because it doesn't really have any history.
02:07
And I also want to get into the venue itself, like golf national, but different than any
02:11
other golf event we watch.
02:13
It's not like venue selection is a huge part of it.
02:15
It's basically like, Hey, this is the host nation.
02:18
look in the greater area and try to find the best course we can find that area.
02:22
A lot of times you get good options.
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I think this was a very good one, but it's not like the venue is this key central piece.
02:28
It's like, we're just, we're going to Paris regardless.
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We're going to Tokyo regardless.
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Let's find something there.
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And Brazil, they had to have Gil Hans come down and build a bunch of courses.
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So like, like to me, it's like, it's not history.
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It's not venue.
02:40
I think the, the, the thing about it that probably makes it cool is a lot of these kids
02:43
grew up and they were athletes and they played a lot of different sports and they undoubtedly
02:47
were at home watching the Olympics every year and seeing how cool it was for those athletes
02:52
in those sports to win a medal and represent their country.
02:54
And so for these guys, now they're getting, they're more and more coming around to the
02:57
idea of man, it'd be so cool to stand up wearing USA colors on that podium with a gold medal
03:03
around my neck.
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And boy, do we see that today with Scottie Scheffler?
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You know, and that's, you make a great point to talking about Brazil and just the start
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that it got because the golf course, like you mentioned, Gil Hans comes out and build
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some courses and it didn't look good on TV.
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You know, the fans weren't out there supporting it quite as much.
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And then fast forward, we already talked about Tokyo, you know, it's a year after the doesn't
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have the same buzz.
03:26
It's a limited type of fan experience.
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I'm sure it was a great golf course, but now this year you finally had venue fans and then
03:34
buy in from players.
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And that's why it was, I think, so successful.
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