Shane Bacon and Andrew Putnam are back to recap last week’s Barracuda Championship and look ahead to the rest of the PGA Tour season. The two start by talking through Xander Schauffele’s win at the Open Championship before moving to Andrew’s top-25 finish in Tahoe. Shane and Andrew hit on the pros of having a stableford scoring event on tour and how that can impact how players attack holes. After breaking down why the Barracuda is Andrew’s favorite week on the calendar, the conversation shifts to Andrew’s push towards this year’s FedEx Cup Playoffs as the regular season hits the final stretch. This episode wraps with some questions from Andrew about Shane’s broadcasting career and the golf content industry.
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Theoretical Topic for you guys to mull about in the future as I have been thinking about this for a couple years and am kinda surprised that nobody ever broaches the topic.
Starting Strokes is a dumb idea and makes the TOUR Championship kind of a bore to watch when you know 20-25 players are out of the mix before it starts.
My proposal is as such, they call it the Playoffs, so why not make it a real playoff? Turn the TOUR Championship into a Match Play Event, you can add 2 players to the field to make it a full 32 player bracket or stick with the traditional 30 players and the Top 2 in Points get a 1st Round Bye.
Thursday – Round of 30/32
Friday – Round of 16
Moving Day – Quarters in the Morning and Semis in the Afternoon
Sunday – 7th place, 5th place, 3rd place and Finals Matches
With this you're not only playing the entire season to make it to the TOUR Championship, you're playing for seeding, Sunday at the BMW becomes all about who is going to make it into the field, who they're going up against and setting the stage for the playoffs, win or go home if you want the FedEx Cup.
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