00:00I think Copperhead and just the work that Tracy West, the director at Valspar Championship, getting a great crowd, all
00:13of the fan experiences as good as I've seen on the PGA Tour for what is not a signature event.
00:19It's the perfect model for PGA Tour events that aren't in the signature event model.
00:25You need somebody like her that is willing to go all in.
00:31There were multiple things on the property, whether it be food, sitting areas, things that you could do simulator-wise,
00:40great seating, hospitality.
00:42But also, there was a grilled cheese truck off the 14th hole that was just handing out free grilled cheeses.
00:50And I couldn't tell you how happy I was yesterday getting a toasted grilled cheese.
00:54Wasn't it just a standard grilled cheese having a little honey in it?
00:58No, it was just a little toasted bread with, obviously, some grilled cheese.
01:04And it was a little small thing, but they had just a little block of cheese underneath it.
01:09I think it was maybe a cheese sponsor, if you will.
01:13And they were handed up blocks of cheese if you want to just walk around with a block of cheese
01:17that you wanted to put in your fridge later.
01:19I personally didn't want to carry the big block of cheese, but I did think it would have been a
01:23great bit if I was carrying this big block of cheese.
01:26Yeah, I think I did.
01:29Oh, we have Jackson chiming in here.
01:31Yeah, Jackson.
01:32I did just say honey on a grilled cheese.
01:34Try it.
01:35It's unbelievable.
01:36What about honey on a PB&J?
01:39I sometimes I'm not even necessarily a jelly guy.
01:42An Uncrustables makes a peanut butter honey sandwich.
01:45That's unbelievable.
01:47Yeah, that that's a good one.
01:49But yeah, honey, honey on a grilled cheese.
01:51It's underrated.
01:52It's a little underage.
01:52It's a little bit.
01:53It's a little bit of honey.
01:54Yeah.
01:54Try sometimes.
01:55Yeah.
01:55Okay.
01:57Yeah.
01:57Just wanted to just to say that that that the Ballast Park Championship, they got a great field.
02:02The weather was phenomenal.
02:04But they also had a Saturday night concert.
02:07The crowds on Saturday were phenomenal.
02:09And really all week, they were great Sunday.
02:11I felt like there was the lowest day of the week.
02:13But I imagine, you know, everybody was out there all week and a lot of basketball on.
02:17But still, it was still a really good Sunday crowd.
02:19It just wasn't as good as Thursday to Saturday, which it's good to see great crowds on a Thursday.
02:25A lot of times people are just like, oh, yeah, we'll come out Saturday.
02:28It was it was really well done.
02:30Congrats to Ballast Park.
02:32A great week.
02:32I was watching Golf Channel earlier in the week.
02:34They had Rondé Barber on.
02:35He was talking, singing Tracy West's praise a number of different times.
02:39Just like she worked so hard to get this field, to get this thing built out.
02:43It seems like a really, really cool.
02:44And to your point, too.
02:45And and there are some reports out this week.
02:47Money in Sport did one analyzing just the existing set of events on the PGA Tour and their financials and
02:53seeing, you know, what the future of the tour could look like.
02:56And so there are, you know, there are only about seven events that currently, you know, look like they could
03:01be sustainable under the expanded signature event model.
03:03So you wonder what's going to happen to the rest of these events.
03:06But, you know, when you have one like Valspar that's well run, you know, you don't know if it ends
03:10up on track one or track two, but those are going to be a part of the tour's backbone, whatever
03:17that looks like under the new sort of format.
03:19I certainly hope they get it.
03:20Yeah, they've definitely passed passing flying colors to me.
03:24I felt like Cognizant didn't have near the investment as Valspar did into the to the fan experience on site.
03:30The build out wasn't quite the same as what we're accustomed to at Cognizant.
03:34So that that would be, you know, if you're having to decide between the two.
03:38Right.
03:38I love PGA National.
03:40I love that event.
03:40I love the venue.
03:42But if if we're trying to take.
03:45What looks good on TV from a, you know, just from watching the golf course in the in the drama
03:53come in on the stretch, well, I think it needs to be matched with also people there.
03:58And just and also looks got to look good from above on this drone shots, man, when it's when it's
04:03nice and green grass showing everywhere.
04:05That's that's a good thing.
04:06But also, like, kind of needs to people sit on this green grass, too.
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