00:00i do like that players that are playing well and having success that tour season have an
00:06opportunity to get into these events but now i think you can make the argument it's all right
00:10how many christopher ratings are there um that could potentially win a signature event i think
00:15i had argued that that there weren't many it's like how deep did you need to make the field to
00:20see who could beat rory mcclory scotty sheffler at a signature friend of scotty wasn't playing this
00:25week but the argument still stands of you know how deep does it need to go 120 seems to be
00:30the
00:30rumor right now of what the signature events uh are going to look like next year if and that number
00:36uh is going to be a better number because first off i hate the the whole no no cut thing
00:42i can't
00:43stand it cuts is a part of the pga tour it needs to be there but then i and then
00:48i was like is it
00:48you know without the live guys um was it going to be deep enough to just add guys
00:55who had no capability of beating elite players not to say that any person that isn't in a pga tour
01:02120 man field isn't elite but do they have the capability of of of winning that event i don't
01:09know uh that that would be the the question the argument that you would have to make um i'm all
01:14for more players having more opportunities but at the same uh note in this i'm like how deep are you
01:20going to make this to where it's just gosh you know i i was i've kind of battled with that
01:26a little
01:26bit it's interesting a lot of a lot of really good points in there and and i'd also be curious
01:32to hear
01:32what people in the comments feel about i know there are a couple of recurring commenters that
01:37hey did you like raid winning like was that good for signature events so i'm looking at these two
01:42back-to-back weeks especially in in the context of field size where we have been where we're going
01:47i think the no cut thing is huge because first for like let's take the cadillac for example
01:53cam young starts running away with it so you're you're losing interest at the top of the leaderboard
01:58sure there is no like friday afternoon friday evening cut sweat you know what's that line gonna
02:03it's just it if you get started to where the storyline you're lacking compelling storylines
02:10it's just sort of a meh experience you know just as as a viewer which is it's hard i mean
02:15i think there's obviously something if you enjoy watching good golf and you want to you know watch
02:21a guy like cam young go out there and just boat race field that's very cool to watch but in
02:24terms
02:25of the excitement of a viewing experience and then we fast forward to this week and i think they get
02:30lucky a little bit with a crowd of leaderboard where all of a sudden ricky fowler's in the mix
02:35that was the story right yeah and we got to talk about ricky too but you know ricky or alex
02:40were the
02:40were the two names that i think if you ever one of those guys when it was i think the
02:45crowd would
02:45have probably been a little bit more into it on 18 it just felt kind of muted to me um
02:49with with a
02:50fairly big crowd at 18 and they were probably like a majority of these people uh maybe 10 to 15
02:57percent
02:57knew who chris for rate was going into that into that day there were a couple out there with it
03:02with
03:02norwegian flags and scarves and stuff which i which i enjoyed but i mean i think but for me it's
03:07it's
03:07you know and we compare this to we talked about this last week after cam one is that the the
03:12the
03:12other tournament like this in the signature event era that i harken back to was at quail hollow it was
03:18the the uh i think was the wells fargo at the time where rory boat raced the field xander was
03:23to the
03:23second place finisher and at the time we talked about that we said this is the problem with these 80
03:28player fields it's like if one guy pulls away you you just don't really have a chance to create
03:34compelling storylines going into the weekend so this week it just so happened there was a bunch
03:38of leaderboard and they kind of get lucky there but i mean i'm even going down like tommy fleet
03:42was in the mix for a little bit um you know going into the jt had a look like there
03:47were a lot of guys
03:47that were not necessarily on the weekend but i see what you're saying yeah like it was a it was
03:52a mix
03:52of blended blended names of top like cam young made his move right it felt like it was cam
03:57young's uh tournament to lose uh well after saturday if you know what i mean
04:01you
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