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Comparing PGA Tour Rookie Classes: Insights and Highlights
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10/17/2024
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I want you to kind of sum up this, this class. I don't know why I want to call it a draft
00:09
class. This isn't a draft. These guys earned their way out here, but what, you know, just
00:14
describing this class versus maybe last year's or just something that has stuck out about
00:20
these 30 guys. Um, anything that come to mind, look, I thought last year was going to be
00:26
incredible. I think I picked five winners coming from, you know, the corn free to our
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last year's graduates. We've we're at three. So there's still a couple of events left to
00:35
get to that five. Um, but I thought, look, it's so difficult. You know, you know how
00:40
it is Smiley and getting onto the PGA tour. Now, if you're not in those signature events,
00:44
it's I think what only seven guys that didn't play in the signature events made it into
00:49
the FedEx cup playoff. So it's like, it's, it's such a leg up. And for these guys coming
00:54
in off the corn free tour where they kind of slot in, I think Rafa Campos have finished
00:59
30th and got the last card last year. He's only played 20 events this year or 21 events.
01:04
So it's, uh, and he's first event came at the farmers. So it's really, it's hard making
01:09
up ground quickly. So you do need to do what a Jake Knapp or a Goddard does and go out
01:13
and win early. But I think the difference between the two classes, um, it felt to me
01:19
this year that there was just a lot more experience, even though we're going to have a lot of rookies,
01:24
um, there was a lot of two-time winners. So a lot of the points were sucked up into
01:28
the top of the points list. So there wasn't as much, there was, there was a lot of separation
01:32
around that 30 number. So I felt like, like you said before, and it's so important in
01:37
professional golf is security turns you into a different golfer. So if you have that security,
01:44
then you could be, it's, you could have a guy that could live on the cut line or win
01:48
PGA tour events. It's that, it's that like valuable to have in your back pocket, knowing
01:53
you've got a full season. So I think like guys like Harry Higgs heading back, look,
01:58
I think he, he talked about it himself. I think he needs to be a little nicer to himself
02:03
when he's competing, but Tim Vitting, Swedish kid, he won back to back in the middle of
02:07
the season. Frankie Sappen, he's a kid that shot 58 this year at the Vertex bank championship.
02:14
He just got his first win. And he's, he's a guy that I think, even though he's going
02:19
to be a rookie, he just feels like he's been on tour for a couple of years. And, and yeah,
02:25
Frankie Sappen. And like, when he, he's a kid that just won, he's had a little success
02:29
on the PGA tour of some sponsors invitation, but he just won at Ohio at the Scarlet course,
02:34
which I hate, by the way, it's brutal. It's not fun. And I mean, he hit, I think he had
02:39
one green in regulation over the last eight holes and still extended his lead. So he's,
02:46
he didn't play his best, but it looked like he won very easily and he was never stressed.
02:51
He was, he had the swagger, he was club dwelling, even though he was missing greens, but the
02:56
short game under that pressure, when he hadn't won on the corn free tour before, I thought
02:59
that was pretty impressive. So look, there's, as I said, multiple winners, there's guys
03:04
that are coming to the PGA tour that already know how to win. And look, I could go down
03:09
the top 30, but if there's some other guys that I've touched on.
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