Comparing a Potential PGA Season Format to European Soccer

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00:00If you were a fan of, you know, international like soccer, I'm really soccer at any level,

00:10but it's particularly like, let's, let's just use the English football structure as a reference

00:14point, both the premier league and the cup competitions that happen outside of it. There

00:18is the premier league that is played over the course of the entire season. That's 38 matches.

00:23And the, the, the team with the most points at the end of that is schedule is your premier

00:30league champion. It doesn't matter how many points they are ahead of second place and

00:34how anticlimactic that finishes you're rewarding that team for season long excellence in the same

00:39way that, you know, you should reward Scotty Shuffler, even if he's a zillion points up in

00:44the FedEx cup, like he was heading in the playoffs, he should be rewarded for being the best player

00:48over the course of this season, which he kind of essentially that's what he's alluding to in

00:53his remarks before the tour championship, separate of that, you can have what in that

00:58English, you know, or other European soccer structure or cup competitions in, in, in England,

01:03it's, you know, obviously you have the FA cup and then at a larger European scale, you have

01:08the champions league, the Europa league. So those things obviously are higher variance.

01:13A team can get hot and go and win that thing. And, and, you know, but you're, you're winning

01:18hardware, but it's just, it's, and there, you can argue about which is more important to win,

01:22whether you'd rather win a premier league or a champions league, whatever it is, you're,

01:25you're rewarding two different types of competition excellence. And that's what I

01:30feel like the tour could do with their sort of structure. And you really wouldn't have to go

01:35too far to create something out of thin air. Like I look at the Comcast business,

01:39top 10. And I, in some ways, it's weird to say this out loud. Like I feel bad for Comcast because

01:45they had this thing that rewards season long excellence, yet we hardly ever talk about it

01:49because it's like, we already had the FedEx cup structure in place and we're playing it forward

01:53towards the playoffs. Like let's increase the size of whatever the Comcast business tour thing is

01:59make that a big deal for this, for the, you know, maybe even even those purses out,

02:03you're getting just as much to win that as you are to win the FedEx cup playoffs.

02:07You know, whatever you want to end that after Wyndham, after Memphis, make that a big deal.

02:12And then you go into this sort of cup competition type deal where you're, you're, you're seeding

02:17into match play or you're going right into match play. And, and, and that's, and that's your,

02:22your playoff champion. And if someone comes out of nowhere and be Scotty Shuffler wins it.

02:26Okay. That's, that's cool. That's wild. There's some variance there. It's probably intriguing.

02:30It's probably compelling television product, but it's not like Scotty Shuffler isn't earning his due

02:35for playing the best over the course of the season.