Thoughts on the Tour Championship

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

WIthin the past couple weeks, Scottie Scheffler capped an amazing season on the PGA Tour by winning the Tour Championship and with it, the Fedex Cup and its giant pool of bonus money. In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg discuss how the Tour structures its season-ending playoff, with the pros and cons of determining a season-long champion using a playoff. Can significance for an event be created simply with money? Is there another format that might work better? And what are Greg's chances of the winning the Stanley Cup? Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2	I want to chat today to Lou and Greg in the house. Welcome Lou and Greg. So we've just in this timeline, as whenever you listen to this, the Tour Championships
0:40.1	has just finished.
0:41.3	Well done, Scotty.
0:43.2	But just the feeling of this year on the PJ tour.
0:47.8	So the PJ Tour is still classed, I would say, as golf, as in TV golf pro golf. I would say it still holds very much
0:57.4	that mantle. As in what's happening there is what we're today shaping our opinions on,
1:03.0	are then affected by the other tours. And I just want to get your guys feel for how to year
1:09.0	when, certainly ending with the Tour Championship.
1:11.0	The Tour Championship felt relatively flat to me. I didn't really engage with it at all.
1:16.6	I kind of don't care for it. I couldn't even explain to you the format personally. I'm not the
1:21.4	average watcher. So I'm an outlier, which I understand. True golf fans, I'm sure, could tell me ins and outs of
1:26.8	all of it and I love in it. So I'm not judging that way. I'm more just say, I would put myself as a,
1:32.4	strangely in the PGA tour world, like a very casual watcher, you know, like I would say,
1:37.8	I am about tennis. I might watch US Open and the Open, but I'm not watching every ATP event
1:43.4	every week.
1:47.1	And I don't know.
1:50.0	The people I do know who do watch a bit more golf or into golf,
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