Smylie Kaufman Talks Impact of Adding 30 Rookies to FedEx Cup

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00:00The churn that you're talking about.

00:02This is where I always wanted to do some digging because I wanted to see, okay, if we add 30

00:08corn ferry tour rookies, which is a huge number, 30 is a big, big number to add to the FedEx

00:14Cup fall.

00:16Is that dipping too much into the churn of what we may say that, you know what, you probably

00:22didn't play well enough this season to deem yourself worthy of, you know, those additional

00:28starts to try to make that top 125.

00:31But the argument is, this is what the whole fall is about is for those players to have

00:36that second opportunity to still try to make it in the top 125 and keep their card.

00:43So looking at it, if you added 30 guys to the deal, it would go if at the Shriners open,

00:51the last guy in that would be 211 in the FedEx Cup, which it's, it's not a quite a perfect

00:57math system.

00:58It would just go minus 30 because certain guys are not playing.

01:01It actually goes down to 150.

01:04So 150 on the FedEx Cup, which I feel that that's just a clear that for people to understand

01:10that's 30 up for the last player in the field is 211 and that's 30 up from there.

01:15So that's equivalently where you'd be entering these corn ferry tour guys where this is kind

01:20of where I've settled in on this argument, which I think that if you had going into the

01:26corn ferry tour season, these players knowing what they're playing for, right?

01:30Like, so the first spot, you have all these exemptions that give the players championship

01:34now the U S open, but let's say that going into the year, they had one extra thing to

01:38play for, which is if you get into the top 10 of the corn ferry tour lists that will

01:44exempt you into the FedEx Cup fall.

01:47Now you will not be able to accumulate any points, but it'll give you an opportunity

01:52to be playing for more money and status.

01:55So what did we just see this week, Matt McCarty wins the golf tournament and get status made

02:00a whole bunch of money.

02:01Now we all knew who he is.

02:02So it's a win, win, win.

02:03So we're starting to introduce some of the top players that came off of the corn ferry

02:07tour.

02:08And the one way in which now, Hey, how do we get, you know, these players into the signature

02:13events because they're not eligible to compete in the next 10, because they're not accumulating

02:17FedEx Cup points.

02:18Like these players did all season, make it a straight battle for these 10 guys.

02:25And one spot gets in to maybe the first two signature events.

02:30You got a totally different storyline.

02:32Now to follow, you got 10 new guys playing the entire fall and then, and then they're

02:36also battling for what would be signature events being, whether it's after the century

02:41and it'd be Riviera and pebble.

02:43I think that would be really cool.

02:45You get to get the top 10 players.

02:47We're introduced to their storylines.

02:49I think 30 is a lot.

02:50I mean, one 50, you know, that's, that used to be the addition, the conditional status

02:55one 26, one 50.

02:56So that, that was also a number that meant something to a PGA tour member like myself.

03:02So one 50 and beyond that was always the spot that you kind of knew it's like, you know,

03:08I didn't play well enough and you kind of are subject to definitely other guys getting,

03:14getting more opportunities.

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