Smylie Kaufman Proposes a Change from Stroke Play to Match Play

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00:00If I'm against the stroke play free-for-all tour championship, how can I be for match play?

00:07You know, that would make sense in that, you know, match play, you know, a guy can get hot on you.

00:13You know, you judge an entire season on stroke play, and all of a sudden, you know,

00:18Scotty Sheffer's going up against the 16 seed who's had a good year, but goes out and he loses.

00:27But what is so different about match play and stroke play, from my perspective, is I think that it's easier to follow.

00:36I think that you can always tell where it stands within the two players that are playing each other.

00:43And then you also get, I think, more energy and reactions from the players and just an overall sense of urgency right from the get-go,

00:51where a tour championship, it's just going to be like every other tournament.

00:55They're going to tiptoe their way along and just treat it, you know, where I want to get too high, I want to get too low.

01:01Or with match play, it's, you know, it's part of the game and ship of fist pumping and getting the momentum.

01:06And that's where I think the crowd definitely could play a factor in whether it's an underdog or, you know,

01:14bringing home Scotty Sheffler's three down.

01:16That's the aspect I think that the players have totally missed in this is that, of course,

01:21the players are part of the reason why match play hasn't worked, but I couldn't agree more.

01:26Like, you go to a big city with energy and then players that have a sense of urgency and match play to not want to go home.

01:35We just talked about it.

01:36There's plenty of money going out early enough in all this for the guys who play good throughout the season.

01:40So let's make this thing fun.