00:00I think that special temporary membership isn't a real thing, and you kind of went through this, I guess, back in 2023 when you Monday qualified and up getting special temporary status.
00:15Do you think it should be a thing, whatever they call special temporary status, and do you think you should get all your points that you earn during those things, although you're not a PGA Tour member?
00:25Because I think you played the event, right? Like, help me out here. Are we on the same page?
00:30Yeah, I mean, it's definitely what I found to be the most difficult way to get and retain a PGA Tour card, because you can earn your way.
00:44Because you've got to double the work.
00:45You've got to earn your way into the event, right, and then make points.
00:51And then once you get equivalent to 150th on the points list from the year prior, they give you what's called special temporary membership, which basically means you can reshuffle into, I believe it's, now it's the 126 through 150 category.
01:09But it used to be the 150 and beyond category, and accept unlimited sponsor exemptions.
01:18So, like, you're getting in John Deere, and I think I was, like, second alternate for Rocket Mortgage and got in on, like, Tuesday.
01:29Actually, Jason Langwell, he's at TGL now, he gave me a sponsor exemption, and then I ended up not needing it because I got in on, like, Monday.
01:39But, like, you're getting into events last minute, you're sitting there, like, writing everyone, like, hey, can I please get a sponsor exemption?
01:49Like, I'd love to, like, play any pro-am, like, I'll do anything.
01:54And it's honestly, you know, probably pretty good because I know all of the tournament tractors now, basically, strictly because I wrote them a letter at some point.
02:04But it is, yeah, it's really difficult.
02:08And then if you finish, I finished 138 on the FedEx Cup equivalent points list, and I got four corn fairy starts out of it.
02:16So, it's tough.
02:20Yeah, and, like, you played better than that, it feels like, right?
02:22Like, you just added up those points, like, it would have been much more than that.
02:25It would have been, if it wasn't 138, what would it have been?
02:28It would have been maybe...
02:30I think mine was actually 138.
02:33I think it was Akshay won and didn't get points for it.
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