Brandel Chamblee and Mark Rolfing go back and forth debating the benefits and drawbacks of the PGA Tour designated events getting rid of cuts in 2024. #GolfChannel #GolfCentral #PGTTour
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Are PGA Tour designated events better with no cut? | Golf Central | Golf Channel
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Great, just shovel more money at already rich players. Boring.
My ideas; 1. Don't touch the 4 majors, keep up the current systems. 2. Make prelim rounds for Thursday
and Friday to get first 35 golfers qualified to play the weekends together with the top 35-ranked players.
3. No one should work for free. Minimum money set for all players including those fail to advance to the weekends.
I'm still confused. Do the new designated events also award FedEx Cup Points? Seems like if they do then the players in ranks 60 or 70 (whatever the bottom end is for entry) to 150 or so get screwed. Fewer events to "earn" points while those in the top positions (as of whatever date 2024) will get automatic points doesn't seem very equitable. I've seen a lot of players in the top 50 talking about how great this is- but how about the guys in positions 100+? I'm guessing they aren't as excited.
The idea of no cut being a boon for sponsorship makes sense from a purely corporate viewpoint but from the spectator perspective is there really any need to watch a player hack it around on the weekend at +9? As a spectator you just know that player has no interest in being there and therefore it seems like a waste of time.
Surprise 😅
Arnie would be suck and puking up.
Destroying one of the best traditions. Time to start putting more *'s in the record books.
Special waiver,affirmative action and privilege for the CHEETAH.
Brandle Chamblee is a bigger hypocrite than Rory .. and that’s saying something
Rich Learner is still an idiot
I can’t believe Golf channel sucking up to Monahan. This is what Greg Norman wanted 30 years ago. An all excerpt tour. Exclusive to only the people at the top. A Giant country Club . Guys like Brandel didn’t like this back then, because he would have been left out. But now he likes it? He is saying this to keep his job. What about the Latino tour? Or the Asian tour? You going to give spots to them on the BIG tour now? Or are you trying to exclude them now because they won’t sell your product? Golf Channel and the PGA tour are just greedy executives. But they are no different than the Saudis, who they condemn. Throwing money at something doesn’t make it better. Just ask all the great golfers who came up through the ranks.
BC's next suggestion will be shotgun starts..
Look the talking heads praising the very thing they were bashing LIV for. They continue to run out of arguments against LIV.
Riviera is not Augusta. Brandel and his spin about things that he railed against last season. So now cuts, which were integral to golf when LIV came out and now they are outdated. So LIV has70 players and no cut. Brandel is bought and paid for by the PGA Tour. Now it is 8 soon it will be 12 and it will end up with an elite tour for the top 75 and then a B tour
Let the backpeddling begin 🤣🤡🤡
Brandel is such a hypocritical clown
The PGA Tour needs to have TWO tournaments a month and that's it. There are too many Tier III tournaments in the rotation where Players balk and fail to show up. 50% of their tournaments are meaningless.
Short pants will be next
Definitely beg to differ here. But I’m tired of having to explain.
The pga tour did not need to change its most traditional events aside from what they are doing this year which is find a way to get the top 125 to the biggest events. And this should include players from outside the Tour for these best traditional events. The genesis is the La open, if anything that event should be having more qualifiers to go with the top 100 or so on tour.
Again, the genesis, memorial, Bay Hill, it’s almost sacrilegious what they are doing. It’s nonsense. And this is coming from someone saying for years the pga tour needs more no cut, limited field events; both for the top and for the rank.
But not this destruction of the true tradition events. No. No. No.
I’m done here.
There should not be any "designated events" in the first place. It's a bad idea which will only hurt the TOUR in the long run.
We will see an essentially two-tiered tour where almost no one will watch or pay attention to events like the Byron Nelson, Houston, American Express, etc. Those lesser events will look and feel like Korn Ferry Tour events.
I can see the PGA TOUR chopping off several tournaments from the schedule in the next few years, which might actually be a good thing.
Brandel eating crow
Shamblee's hypocrisy is EPIC….he bashed LIV for months for Ltd fields and no cut….its just BS propaganda…GC is the FOX news of golf…
Time for the the corrupt OWGR board to give LIV ranking points….or be replaced with a new system that includes all tours..