00:00I'm curious if you talk to players, you know, what's their general opinion of going from 25 to 20?
00:05I can't imagine that they're quite in love with it.
00:08But when you do get a card, at least you're guaranteed a little bit more starts now, right?
00:14Regular season was top 25.
00:17And then they went to, obviously, they went to the weird where it was a regular season, 25 and then 25 in the playoffs, in the finals.
00:26Then they went to 30 for a couple of years, and then they just dropped to 20.
00:31And like we said before, you've got...
00:33Golly, I didn't realize that.
00:35Charlie, were you aware of that?
00:37Golly, 30 is too much.
00:38I don't know if you saw the list of 30 guys the last two years, and we were talking to James previewing the...
00:44Well, look, 30 is too much.
00:47But because they cut out the finals where, you know, effectively, there was 50 cards on offer out of the Corn Furry Tour.
00:54So, that's how a lot of those guys that would lose their PGA Tour card would drop back, play that full series Corn Furry.
01:00You know, all they had to do was get inside the top 25, which was one good event.
01:04Well, really, a fourth.
01:05You get your PGA Tour card back.
01:08So, they went to 30 because then they brought in the five at Q School and then, obviously, the DP 10.
01:14And so, you know, they've got your 55 cards there.
01:17And then now you've gone to the 20.
01:19And look, the players, I mean, they don't like it at all, but they understand it.
01:25You know, they know why.
01:27And it's because...
01:28And look, I'm a Corn Furry Tour homer, of course.
01:31I've worked it for five years now.
01:33And I think Corn Furry Tour is the second best tour in the world.
01:37And everyone's like, well, you're crazy.
01:40And I'm like, well, okay, we've got...
01:42We had the top 10 of DP in 2025.
01:44How many victories did the top 10 of the DP guys have on the PGA Tour?
01:49That's a big zero.
01:51How many victories did the top 30 on the Corn Furry Tour have?
01:55And it's seven wins.
01:57So, you know, I could easily be like, all right, we've got guys here that have won on the PGA Tour.
02:02And, you know, I've always wanted the DP cards to weave into the top 10 on the Corn Furry.
02:09So I thought it was a little...
02:11Instead of the category going behind the DP World Tour cards, now I get it.
02:15I get it why the Tour has to do that.
02:17And I know why, you know, we've got so many awesome players coming from the...
02:23You know, we're definitely getting more wins in than that this year
02:26than we did last year out of the top 10 in DP World Tour, I think.
02:29But it just shows how good the talent is on the Corn Furry Tour,
02:32how hard it is to compete on the Corn Furry Tour with those 20 cards.
02:36And now that the PGA Tour has gone down to a top 100,
02:40I mean, you're going to get some entertaining players dropping down
02:42to play Corn Furry Tour this year in 2026.
02:46So the Corn Furry Tour is going to feel like PGA Tour 1B, I would assume,
02:53with the amount of guys that are going to come down and play some events,
02:56even if they're playing one or two here or there,
02:58it's going to feel pretty important.
03:01And that's just going to make it so much more difficult
03:04for when those guys that might have finished 120 on the PGA Tour last year,
03:10which is still going to get a fair few amount of starts by what I've heard.
03:15But when one of those guys play well in one of the first Corn Furry Tour events,
03:18they're going to be like, OK, well, maybe I'm going to stick down here for a little longer.
03:22So it's just going to turn week in, week out of playing on the Corn Furry Tour
03:26into high-quality stuff, which is great for us, great for the broadcast.
03:30But it's also going to make it so much more difficult to get one of those 20 cards.
03:34And, you know, when you talk about, as I said, Mitchell Meisner finished 21st,
03:40the kid that just missed his Corn Furry Tour card, he had seven top 10s.
03:44So the guy, and then he went on to Q School.
03:47Actually, we haven't talked about the five guys from Q School.
03:50He was another one of those stories that he was inside the top five at Q School
03:54to get his PGA Tour card with three holes to play.
03:57So it was heartbreaking where he didn't get it by one on the Corn Furry Tour for the season
04:01and then missed by one at Q School for five cards.
04:07So, yeah, it's professional golf.
04:10So, look, it's a great place to play right now.
04:13If you're playing decent, you're printing money.
04:15But as far as getting a look in and just getting status on any tour,
04:21the line's so tight.
04:22I'm glad I'm on this side of the camera these days.
04:25I'm glad I'm getting a look in and teach you guys.
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