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00:00So I just have a selection of quotes to read you here from several players on tour, former
00:09players on tour.
00:11So this is Justin Lauer, is actually a really emotional interview on Saturday, holding a
00:15share of the lead at the Worldwide Technology Championship, and kind of starts about how
00:21much a win would mean to him.
00:22But then in the back half of the response says, I hate all the changes they're making.
00:26That's a whole nother subject I could rant about for like an hour.
00:29Seems like anytime I do something good, they make a change, but yeah, it just means a lot
00:33to me.
00:34I just want to see how good I can do and prove to myself that I can actually do something
00:37in this game.
00:38Padraig Harrington, a friend of the show, Wednesday on Golf Today, was asked about it.
00:43He says, it's terrible.
00:44It really is.
00:45I can't think of how bad it is.
00:46At the end of the day, the people who are on the inside are voting to keep the thing
00:50tighter and more closed.
00:51Sure.
00:52Why don't we have 12 people involved if I'm included and everyone else can go home?
00:55The tour is running just fine.
00:56I know there is certain pressure on time to get fields finished when they go to 156 during
01:00certain times of year, but players will deal with that.
01:03This is one way to solve one of the biggest issues in golf pace of play, but you want
01:07to give everyone the opportunity.
01:09And then finally, Lucas Glover, I thought the proposed plan was as nine.
01:12Like most of our recent changes, limiting players doesn't help competition.
01:16We're the only sport that decreased the number of teams or players.
01:19Every other sport has expanded their playoffs or expanded their fields.
01:22We're doing the opposite.
01:24The tour's job description is to do what's right for the membership, not a few members.
01:31Your thoughts on that collection of quotes with regard to the proposed changes that we
01:34discussed and I think generally, we seem to like them.
01:38Well, yeah, we've debated it and I think we do like them.
01:46That's what's difficult about the PGA Tour, right?
01:48You got all these individual guys with a lot of opinions, 200 to 225 members you're
01:55trying to appease with fields that are tightening and a different world that we're in now in
02:05the professional golf landscape.
02:06So you have to imagine there are a lot of people that feel that way.
02:13From our perspective, as somebody that played the game professionally, was on the tour in
02:19media now, can see both sides of it.
02:23I for one, if I was still playing, would be 100% in the boat of I want every opportunity
02:29to play.
02:30Now, where I sit now, I don't really see it that way.
02:35So it's weird.
02:37If you go ask me, if I just got done after shooting 66 out of Estavia and I'm like, you
02:43know, maybe I could play again and you say, hey, hey, SK, what do you think about should
02:47there be a hundred?
02:48You should be extra 12 guys at every event.
02:51It's like, oh, you know, maybe, but that's it's such a fine line.
02:58And one of the main reasons they talked about was not being able to finish on Thursdays
03:05and Fridays.
03:06I don't think that's the end of the world.
03:08Right?
03:09I think guys don't, they just want to play.
03:12I don't, I don't think they really care about finishing that next morning.
03:15Sure.
03:16They would love to be first off and I have to go and finish in the mornings, but it doesn't
03:20take away from the tournament finishing on Sunday.
03:23So when it comes to like daylight, I get that you can use that as an excuse, but I think
03:30the players that are in the court area or wherever will be like, we don't care.
03:35Just give us a tea time.