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00:00So, Brintley, to kind of shift back to the tour side of things and looking at, you know,
00:07the two categories in which we can see guys come out of PGA, the regular PGA tour year
00:12standings and of course, PGA tour, you accelerated, you know, Gordon Sargent already has his card
00:17locked up.
00:18And actually, that's another question I want to get to a little further down the line is
00:21just the makeup of the Walker Cup team and the way those standings and those cards will
00:24impact that sort of team, especially as they've just had their first practice session.
00:28But starting with the regular PGA tour year standings, the three that are near the top
00:34of those standings, shout out to the heels, my guy, David Ford.
00:38He's up there.
00:39And then, of course, USM champion Bias there and Auburn's Brendan Valdez as well.
00:45Fall season's over.
00:46What sort of, you know, if you had to make a prediction right now, who do you think shakes
00:49out as the number one at the top of that list at the end of this next season?
00:55I do like the way that David Ford has played this fall when you look at the two wins, especially
01:02coming off a summer where he didn't play that well, he had some issues with his lower back
01:06and his hip.
01:07And I think he was contemplating surgery there for a little bit.
01:10And I'm kind of similar to what we saw with Austin Greaser in the wrist a year ago, things
01:15just kind of miraculously got better for him.
01:18And I think he's learned a little bit more about his body and how to manage those things.
01:22So incredible fall for him.
01:24But he's also one and two against Bias there in the fall, Bias there missed a tournament.
01:29Otherwise, he could have two wins as well, hasn't finished outside the top five.
01:33I think when you look at the race for PGA Tour, you it's probably the number one is
01:39probably going to end up being the player of the year in in college golf.
01:42You know, I think that's there's going to be a lot of overlap with some of those awards
01:45and that's unique to really like that.
01:48That's hasn't been the case lately.
01:50Yeah.
01:51And, you know, especially because last year, Jackson Coven just had such a great year.
01:54Like you've always had some other classmen, yeah, Clanton.
01:58But now you have two seniors here who have kind of ran away from the pack a little bit.
02:03And we have a lot of golf left.
02:04I mean, teams are playing what, five, six times before their conference championships
02:08in the spring.
02:09Like someone could come out of nowhere, you know, maybe a guy that's been a little bit
02:13sleepy this fall like Clinton or Jackson Coven or even Brendan Valdez, who's in the running
02:19for that number one as well.
02:20I do think it's speaking of rarities, Smiley, by the time we get to San Diego here in late
02:27May, like we're going to have a PGA Tour, you race, that's not going to be already over
02:31like the first few years.
02:33It's been kind of a formality for Michael Thorpe-Jorgensen, for John Pak, like those
02:39guys it's already been over mathematically.
02:41So I think it's going to be a lot, lot closer.
02:45But I do think that the player of the year is probably going to be Jose Ballester from
02:52Arizona State.
02:53I think he's just at a different level.
02:56Like what we saw at Hazeltine when in the USA and how he's been able to translate and
03:03kind of come into college and then actually fly like to Spain and play a DP World Tour
03:07event and then come back and not miss a beat at the Williams Cup and finish top five.
03:12He just does things I think across the board that a lot of guys in college golf right now
03:17can't really say.