Exploring the Unique Format of the Team Championship

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00:00This is the team championship.

00:05It is a much different event and you really need to dive in and take a look at the format

00:11for this because it is a little crazy.

00:14Obviously there's 13 teams in live golf.

00:17The top three have buys into Saturday.

00:21They are not playing on Friday.

00:22That's ROM's team, region 12, Bryson's team, and I believe what's the third team with the

00:28buy, Brady, off the top of my head?

00:30The third team is Ripper Golf Club, which is Cam Smith's team.

00:34It's the Australian team.

00:36Mark Leishman, Matt Jones.

00:41They have the buy into Saturday.

00:42But basically, they're going to match these teams up starting Friday, Brady.

00:47I like the schoolyard pick.

00:49The top seed, which I think is Brooks' team, they're the five, they get to pick what team

00:53they want to face and it goes down the line.

00:55The teams with the buy are going to do the same thing Saturday.

00:59This is a little confusing on the surface maybe at first, Brady, but if you sit down

01:03and dive into it, this could be a lot of fun this weekend for this.

01:07I totally agree and the PGA Tour might want to take notice.

01:11Not that they have teams and that type of thing, but maybe they can garner some sort

01:15of format off of this, certainly implementing a buy and match play.

01:20You know, you mentioned the 13 teams.

01:22Every one of them is going to have a shot to win this thing.

01:24It's not the staggered scoring or what have you, you know, like we see at the Tour Championship.

01:29There is a buy for the top three teams, like you mentioned, Bryson's team, the Crushers,

01:33they are number one, Legion 13, Legion 12, whatever it is, Rahm and Hatton, their team

01:38number two, Ripper Golf Club, Cam Smith, number three, and then the rest of them go head-to-head

01:43on Friday.

01:44And out of the two teams, you got eight players, right?

01:48You'll have two guys will play singles, mono-e-mono, and then the rest of the remaining four players

01:57will play two-on-two, and that's alternate shot.

02:01So a lot of this handicap is similar to, like, say, the Zurich Classic, where you have team

02:05play and they're playing best ball and alternate shot, and that's really, really hard.

02:11You know how hard it is just to figure out how one guy's going to play, Mike, and now

02:16you have to pit two guys against another two guys, two different skill sets, complementary

02:22skill sets.

02:24That's really confusing.

02:25I tried to dumb it down.

02:27There's obviously only 13 choices here, and I went with teams where I felt there was very

02:34good Ryder Cup match-play experience, and who's the hottest right now?

02:39This golf course is supposed to be a real beast, too, so, yeah, I think the whole thing's

02:44going to be fun.

02:46You know, similar to the Tour Championship, however, maybe the most difficult live event

02:51to bet so far.

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