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First Look: 2026 St. Jude | Who Wins at TPC Southwind?

Episode Summary

The Betsperts Golf crew breaks down the full St. Jude Championship field, covering the early favorites, the value names worth targeting, and what TPC Southwind demands from a player's game. We go through course fit, key stats to target, and where the market may be getting it wrong heading into the week. Whether you're playing a tournament winner bet, building a DFS lineup, or just want to know who to watch, this is your first look at everything that matters for the St. Jude Championship.

Episode Notes

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0:00 - Michael Brennan wins, young Americans

 

4:12 - TPC Southwind course breakdown

 

9:17 - Rebet offer, promo code BSG

 

10:22 - Odds board and tournament cheat sheet

 

15:22 - Rabbit Hole filters and field strength

 

19:14 - Floor, ceiling, and consistency

 

22:40 - Finish position and lead-in form

 

27:47 - Par four scoring and birdie looks

 

31:56 - Comp courses and the wrap

Episode Transcription

First Look: 2026 FedEx St. Jude Championship, Who Wins at TPC Southwind?

 

Hey everyone, welcome in. Betsperts Golf here for our first look at the twenty twenty-six FedEx St. Jude Championship, the first leg of the playoffs, coming off another youngin winning at Sedgefield, Michael Brennan. Kids are winning. Ron, how are we doing today?

 

Yeah, doing well. Good to be here. What can you say? I will admit it, I was one hundred percent wrong about Michael Brennan. I write the Golf Digest article every week. He was one of my big faves of the week. I followed him in Detroit, so I am well aware of how dominant he is off the tee. His approach game is very underrated. My thinking was that Sedgefield is a completely different course, and he has had a little bit of trouble on positional type courses where you have to have a strong short game, which has been his biggest weakness. And then he just goes out, and he still lost strokes around the green, but his putting was really good. So all credit to him. It is an exciting time. We have got a lot of youth here. I know that was his second one already, but yeah, it was a fun watch, and I love Sedgefield.

 

There is a lot of talk about it. I think it is going to be a tier one event starting in twenty twenty-eight, and I am a hundred percent behind that, because when you look at the round to round play here, you will see guys who are plus eight and minus eight in the same round. It is the ability to see good shots being rewarded and bad shots punished. You would not think of it as an old school track, but it plays that way every year, and I think it is a great choice to make it a tier one event.

 

Yeah, I am excited about that too. I have talked about how I love Sedgefield. There are a lot of different tee boxes you can stand on there and think, where do I want to go? It is the way they use the terrain. There are a lot of little things that make it a fun positional track. I think you highlighted it great too, because there are sixty ones and sixty twos out there for someone who is painting fairways, throwing darts, and running hot with the putter. But it is very easy to throw up a big number and play yourself out, considering how the field can post those sixty ones and sixty twos. I think that is it. Shot quality test. Good play is rewarded. If you are a little bit off, you are going to get punished.

 

And I would love to see a great tier one field here every single year, because of its natural place in the schedule. You are just never going to see Scottie and Rory here, right? We probably would not see Cam Young if he did not have some local ties and had not won this event last year. So it was this natural spot on the schedule where we would not see a great field, and I am excited that that could be the case.

 

Yeah, the Brennan thing was a couple weeks ago, and we have it again this week here as we go to Southwind. The Brennan case is actually the reason I probably missed pre-flop on Thor too. If you look at the data, they really benefit from the par fives, right? They are kind of middle of the pack on par four scores. You really benefit from the par fives, and then you have these longer par fours and these par seventies, and that is two birdie holes essentially going away for those guys. So it is really impressive for back-to-back Thor and Brennan to win on these par seventies that have not really suited their game per se all year, where they have really made their hay on spots where they can pick on the par fives. So impressive. Really, if you look at the best par four scores on tour, those are just your best golfers on tour typically, right? If you are winning on the par fours, you are doing something right. So it is just really impressive.

 

We open up the can of Presidents Cup discussion every year around this time, and now I think there are really interesting discussions with these three in particular, all getting in the playoffs, all winning events, playing well at the right time. I know we are still a month away from that, but it is an interesting discussion, getting these younger sub-twenty-five-year-old Americans that are winning golf tournaments. It is pretty cool to see.

 

So we will move now to TPC Southwind in Memphis, the first leg of the playoffs. All seventy golfers are here. Rory is in the field, which is cool. It seemed like he was definitely not playing, and I was worried that would be a trend for some of these other guys, just because with them changing the way things start when you get to Atlanta, there is less incentive to jockey for position in the top thirty, because you are not getting the starting strokes. But it is cool that we got everyone here. Another par seventy, mostly Bermuda track here down in the southeast. We have the Zoysia grass fairways, but tell everyone what they need to know about TPC Southwind.

 

Yeah, another par seventy, right around seventy three hundred yards. This course has not changed a ton, but there was a renovation a couple of years ago, actually before last year's tournament, where they redid a lot of things, completely new greens. So we did see the course approach get tougher. Greens in reg dropped from sixty two percent to fifty eight percent.

 

We can get into that when we get into the Rabbit Hole a little more. But yeah, it is a tree lined layout, narrow, kind of undulating Zoysia fairways, twenty eight yards wide only. So very narrow fairways this week. Three inch Bermuda rough, Bermuda greens. So definitely targeting players similar to last week too, guys who grew up in the South and are familiar with the chipping and putting on Bermuda. Over the last five years this course has played to about an average of one stroke under par. I am putting it slightly on the easier side when looking at tour difficulty. And we had, of course, Justin Rose last year winning at sixteen under.

 

But water is one of the main defining features here, so it gets a lot of comparisons to PGA National. Lakes, streams, and ponds are directly in play on eleven different holes. More water balls here actually than any other tour venue. I know Twin Cities is up there, PGA National, but this actually has the most overall. So it is a course where, like you said, with only two par fives, easy scoring opportunities are limited compared to a lot of other tour courses.

 

And again, like I said, the Bermuda rough is the defining factor as well. You get a lot of flyer lies here. One of the biggest things for me is when I am looking at approach play, and I will say it is a ball striker's course. When we get into around the green, putting is much easier than average, and what you really want to focus on here when looking at the data, especially in the Rabbit Hole, is off the tee and approach. One of the stats that stands out is that you do not have many courses like this where the importance of finding fairways is this big. You are hitting the green at a seventy three percent rate when you are on the fairway. When you are in the rough, it is thirty three percent. So you are literally dropping forty percentage points if you miss the fairway. Like last week, you heard the players talk about Sedgefield. If you are going to score, you have got to find the fairway, probably even more so here. So that is going to be my main focus, fairway finders, and then guys on small greens, forty five hundred square feet. That is the game plan this week.

 

And what is interesting is we have seen the trend of the approach numbers here on our course stats page for TPC Southwind. We have seen the driver usage tick up the last couple of years, after being kind of flat for a little bit. Now we have really spiked to more driver heavy usage, which is interesting when those are pretty insane splits relative to what we typically see. Greens in reg from the fairway is kind of in line with the PGA Tour average, but greens in reg from the rough, that is penal. Penal rough, penal miss fairway penalty. That is significant. So you have got to be dialed this week. It is a ball striker's test, like you said.

 

You look at past leaderboards, past winners here. It is guys that have, I mean, Hideki, ball striker. Lucas Glover, right? We know where Lucas can bleed strokes. It is not usually ball striking. He is going to be in the fairway and the approach game can be dialed in. The Zalatoris breakout finally, against Sepp Straka, another great ball striker. That was Abe Ancer's calling card. JT, Brooks, Dustin. It is a test where we have seen good winners, mostly guys coming in with really good ball striking form. If we go back the wrong way we are getting Justin Leonard and Jeff Maggert. But yeah, historic ball strikers. Love to see that.

 

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So yeah, you have these smaller green complexes, and typically you think that naturally we need to lean on some of the around the green stuff a little bit more, and it just does not show itself out there, partially because it is a little bit easier. So it is something I am going to continue to look at, the ball strikers here this week and guys playing from the fairway. These smaller greens too can typically lend themselves to better, easier putting numbers, because it is easier to not have those long, laggy putts. But you can see you have got to make hay on the par fives. Tough stretch to finish on seventeen and eighteen, but sixteen is kind of a gift. Same thing on the front. You start with a nice stretch where there are some scoreable holes to start. Then you get into some of the stuff back and forth in the middle of the test.

 

I think it is also another interesting corollary course week here. You touched on whether it is positional tracks, places with water, some of these southeast courses. I think it is an interesting corollary course week too, which we typically like to get into a little bit.

 

So let's take a look at the odds board. Obviously a loaded field. Odds board courtesy of SharpStack, our friends over at 4for4. Scottie is here. Played well here, has not won. Played well, and that has kind of been twenty twenty-six. He has played well every week and is not winning, which is tricky. It feels inevitable for that to break at some point. But you see he is around five or so there on Kalshi, and I think that is more than a fair price. Tough click though. Rory here at twelve or so. Xander now third on the odds board. Xander felt like he was drifting a little bit in these fields, but Xander is back up to third on the odds board, around nineteen or so. Tommy, nice history here. Again, nice history, has not won. Tommy right around twenty. Sam Burns playing really good golf, twenty, twenty-two. Cam, twenty-two. Matty Fitz around twenty-two. Collin the same, although there is a twenty-six on DraftKings. Ludvig, last one short of thirty. Then you drop down into this pretty large tier that is right around thirty to forty, with Hideki, Gotterup, Si Woo, Cantlay, Hovland, Wyndham Clark, Bobby Mac, Henley, and Koivun right around forty depending on where you are shopping.

 

So again, all seventy are here. A super duper strong field. You are going to see some big numbers on some guys that you have probably been betting on in the thirties and forties that are going to be close to triple digits, if not more, and that is kind of what we get here in the playoffs. So shop around here early on a Monday morning.

 

All right, let's look at the cheat sheet here. This is another tool that we have if you want to get a sense of rolling form for the players in the field, get a sense of how they have played as of late, obviously the Wyndham stuff in here as well, and if you want to get a sense of who has played well at TPC, excuse me, you get all that in here as well. Are you leaning on course history much here, or are you looking more at southeast recent form and corollary courses?

 

Yeah, this is one, so this is a playoff event. They have played here a good deal going back, so even before it was a regular tour event. It is kind of in the middle of the pack, but there is a lot of variance on this course with all the water. So not as much as I would be otherwise. I think recent form is a thing. I think someone like Hideki, who is just top of the leaderboard every week the past few weeks, playing a lot, and Hideki, just looking back at the data, he is a guy who, the more he plays, he does not really get tired. And he has got the best course history here when you look at total strokes gained. So yeah, that is something I will look at. But like you said, Bermuda for sure. And Sam Burns finally getting some respect in the odds, right up there in the top tier. He is a guy who definitely fits here as well. So that is kind of a look at it, but not too closely.

 

Yeah. Look at Cam last year. He had not had any course history really to speak of here, and then Cam comes in last year, T5. That speaks to it more for me than anything. But yeah, Hideki's recent form, playing very well. And then it did not come in twenty twenty-two, but he has finished inside the top twenty in five straight appearances here. And I was on him here in twenty twenty-four for the win, which was nice. So yeah, this is a ball striker's test, and that pans itself out here if you look at the tournament cheat sheet.

 

So let's jump into the Rabbit Hole. What do we want to look at? Is there anything in the high-level stuff that we typically look at, scoring conditions, course length, field strength, or where do you want to start this week?

 

Yeah, so this is very similar to the signature events that we have had throughout the year, a similar structure, seventy man field. So we had a lot of options in that filter condition box. If you want to look at no cut events, something I like to look at too is to take out large fields and look at intermediate and small fields. That, to me, is just who plays well. Obviously a lot of these are going to be no cut events as well. There are different ways you can go about looking at how guys perform in these types of events.

 

I will definitely look at the strong field strength. Another way is to look at strong and very strong field strength. Everyone is here. Daniel Berger, I do not know what is going on with him, hopefully he is not injured again, but he is about the only guy who did not come this week. So when you look at the scoring conditions, it is kind of in the middle. Course length, it is not short, the average par seventy. So I am not going to look at that this week as much as who plays well in strong fields. And again, you have the signature event option as well, so I will mix and match that in. But again, these are the best players in the world this week. So for me it is more focused on the data. And like we talked about, and like you talk about all the time, par four scoring is going to be huge this week. Putting and chipping on Bermuda greens, and obviously ball striking is a big one. Big, big time ball striking.

 

You need a floor and a ceiling for sure. And the ball striking, we can look at that too. So no surprise, twenty twenty-six strong and very strong fields. Scottie is kind of lapping the field in terms of strokes gained total average. Rory, Cam Young, Collin Morikawa, Tom Kim. Kudos to Tom Kim, he is just playing really good golf. He kind of fell flat yesterday for a lot of people that were looking for him to chase and hunt down the top of that board, and he kind of stalled, but for the most part he is just playing good golf. It is cool to see, after him being kind of in the wilderness a little bit there for a bit. I think he was probably playing a lot of golf with Scottie and trying to chase distance and speed, and I think he got back to doing his thing. I think he hooked up with Sean Foley and he is playing really well.

 

Fitz, Ludvig only gets four hours of strong field. Tommy, Burns, as you highlighted, Burns deserves his spot on the odds board, playing great golf. My only concern is he just had a baby. You were not sure if he was even going to be in the Open, and then he goes home and he has this little lull of no events. How much has Sam been playing for the last three or four weeks? That makes me a little nervous. Sam Burns was a couple guys that I liked before I saw the odds board, and then I saw the odds board, and Burns is one of them that was tough. But we understand why anyone would go to him, especially since we are on Bermuda. A lot of things check the box there. He can play good golf. Henley, Xander, Akshay, Wyndham, all these guys are right around the stroke in these strong fields here. So it is a good foundational structure for the week in terms of starting your model. I like that quite a bit.

 

I am going to see who separated ball striking wise. Alex Fitzpatrick, not making putts or chipping very well, but the ball striking stuff is great. There is Rory, Scottie, Ludvig, and again this is where Tom Kim pops in. So just to get the ball striking stuff like we talked about, Kitayama jumped up there too, obviously. So that is good stuff.

 

Let's jump off of this and take a look at the over under. I really like it, I am using this more and more, and kudos to you, you pushed on this a little bit. I thought that the floor ceiling stuff was really fascinating and interesting, and I did not know where I would be modeling with it. Now it is really trying to pick winners. I think it is actually a really important piece to have in the model.

 

Good on you for pushing that, because now it is a foundational staple in my model every week. I want to capture floor. I am typically looking at two plus strokes in strokes gained total and ball striking almost every week in my model now. It is just one of those things that stays in there.

 

So we are still on the strong and very strong fields, on how frequently guys are gaining strokes. You can see consistency here for these players, and I like to see where guys can really start to separate, where you see Scottie and Tommy gaining two or more strokes in at least half their rounds. I think that is really telling. You like to see where guys can go out and start to separate.

 

When you look at the ball striking, where guys are doing this, Rory, Scottie, Alex, Collin, are around eighty percent. You see a guy like Jordan Smith consistently gaining ball striking. Is there a ceiling? Not as much, but he is not going to play himself out of it until he gets to the green. Then he will find a way to play himself out of it. But I think that is interesting to capture.

 

Ball striking wise here, Koivun, Rory, Brennan, Fitz, Scottie, Alex Fitz, Tom, these guys are all thirty percent or more of their rounds gaining ball striking, again against tough fields. So if you want to pull off the tough fields you could do that. You see how frequently guys are gaining strokes ball striking. This is where Rory really separates, again on a smaller sample than most of his peers. Brennan, Scottie, the Fitzpatrick brothers, Si Woo, Collin.

 

I think these are really important pieces when you are trying to think. It depends on what you are trying to do with the model. Andy and I have talked about this a lot on Tuesday. I think the model that you are building is probably designed to be a little bit flatter than the model that I am building, because I am not building a model to give me a hundred and fifty lineups for DFS or to highlight any names. I am trying to build a model to pick a winner. You are also betting more matchups, you are betting more finishing positions than I am. Whereas I will sprinkle that, but mostly I am betting outrights. So I am really trying to find ceiling a little bit more. So when you are looking at models, when you are thinking about that, trying to build out, think about what your end goal is. I think that matters a ton.

 

Yeah. And Alex Fitzpatrick being on here I think is a great example of this, because yes, we have seen him throughout this whole year. He has been in every signature event. He played his way into those and he has competed and been on top of the leaderboard almost every week, it seems. We saw him last week. He kind of had some time off, a little rusty at Sedgefield last week. But again, this week, when you see him on the top page here for ball striking, for off the tee, for approach, I think that is a great sign for him, and it just shows the Rabbit Hole telling you that his upside is pretty high. And you see Brennan up here. So yeah, I completely agree with you. I think this is a great tool.

 

And another one, maybe not as much because it is not on a per round basis, but the finish position tool where you can go in and say, hey, I want to see top ten rates on whether it is strong field events, whether it is signature events. Even though we do that all the time in the Rabbit Hole as far as when we look at the strokes gained data, you can also take that same approach and say, let me try to create what players are going to face this week. Okay, it is a strong field, whatever filter you want to put on there. Who has the highest top ten rate? So it is just another way to do it. And if you want to find a floor, obviously this week made cut percentage does not matter, but for last week, hey, who has a high floor where I can look at the made cut percentage as well? So if you are a person that is just doing outrights and you just want ceiling, I would definitely also look here at top ten percentage. And obviously for DraftKings, if you are playing DFS, average finish position, you get points for how you finish. So there are just so many different tunnels you can go down looking at this data.

 

I think this is a great one to call out too. I think the best use for this, and again you can use any of the views for this, is that I think we talk about form, but if you want to retroactively look at what is going on, I think looking at lead in form to the previous year is really helpful. And through the finishing position lens you can go into the calendar and grab the previous year. So we want to go into late July, if I want to just see here is July to August of last year when we got to this event. Again, you might not have a ton of data, I have twenty twenty-six on, that is probably why. You are not going to get a ton of starts, but you can mess around with what you wanted to see, who was playing well leading into last year's event. So like Justin Rose, three events, he was mixing a little bit. All this is actually grabbing his win, so if you wanted to make sure you pulled that out, you can go ahead and kick this back a little bit. And you get a sense of how frequently that guy was in the mix, who was playing pretty well. So again, you are going to mess around with sample size, but if you want to get lead in form you can mess around with the calendar, you can mess around with any view. I like looking at finishing position to say, what happened here last year, and was there any signal now that we look back on who played well? Like Tommy was playing well, which is not surprising. Rosie was playing well, limited, but he had a top ten in there. So again, a million ways to use the Rabbit Hole. This is another good use case for that too.

 

You can use that same thing with rolling averages. Yeah, I think it is another great use, to see if you kick it back even further, set it like the week before this tournament and see how that guy was playing. Twenty four rounds, twenty rounds, twelve rounds heading into it. So those are really probably underutilized. If we were tracking usage for specific metrics, I would assume rolling averages, finishing position, floor, and ceiling are probably a little bit underutilized.

 

Yeah, that is the crazy thing, is I forget about the rolling averages. There is so much I am looking at. And what you did looking at the lead in form, I never even thought to do it that way, but that is a great example. If you are trying to go back and see how I was doing, but yeah, there are so many ways. And we are going to add hopefully a baseline view as well, where you can see with all the filters we have, okay, if the guy is better on Bermuda, how much better is he on Bermuda compared to the field? So there is a lot that we are going to keep adding to it, but yeah, there are so many methods. Even if you wanted to, like we did last week a little bit on here, you could do the same process just for a first round leader. Who is coming in, who is playing well in first rounds? There are so many ways.

 

Yeah, if you have questions, again, jump in, make sure you are in the Discord if you are a subscriber, ask questions. Break it, find things that you are not sure about, that you think might be signal or not. And again, do not over filter. Do read Ron's preview, look at all of his suggested filters and key stats, like we have this here. He puts it in the bottom of his article. Again, great article, you should be reading this to start every week. You see here, important stats. Do not just go and click all these on and try to see what it spits out. Just do a couple of these at a time, one at a time. Think through it a little bit. Do not mindlessly click and hope it is going to spit out the answers. You have got to think through what you are actually trying to have the data do when you are asking it to do some of these things. Again, that is what the Discord is there for. That is why we are trying to do shows this way. Jump in the chat on YouTube. Let us know if you are messing around with it and something you are struggling with, or something you think you found a signal on. Let's share it and continue to make it better.

 

Par four scoring, I think, is going to be clutch this week. It is a mix of four hundred to four fifties, but there is a decent amount of four fifty to five hundred. So for me it is like, I am going to look at par four strokes gained, par four. I am not going to get super granular on the dispersion of the hole length. But again, with just the two par fives, and knowing that those are birdie holes for pretty much the majority of the field, you really need to take advantage of the par fours. And again, searching through this, it is very much a who are the best players, who is playing the best. When you look at who can separate on par four, Scottie, Rory, Sam Burns. I know Sam Burns has, again, really good par four numbers. Koivun, Kim, Young, Foxy up here, which you love to see. Good for him. Gary Woodland, interesting. Xander, Akshay, good par four scores, dipping a little bit, the recent form has been not as great. Henley, not surprising. So these guys are all clustered here in like the point seven. So again, something that I think you need to look at. You can look at par fours through the lens of strong fields, lots of different ways.

 

But what else do you want to highlight before we wrap?

 

I think a course like this, where you are going to have to score birdies, I think looking at the scoring page, scoring ops, just the general view, just guys who have played recently. I think Hideki, JT, guys who played last week, some of the guys who played in Detroit, I might favor them, like we are talking about. Some of these guys have had a few weeks off. And again, how predictive is that? Justin Rose, I think he had a couple weeks off last year as well before he came in here and won. But I want to try to capture guys who are hitting it well right now, in recent form.

 

So I will look at the scoring ops, inside five, ten, fifteen. I will probably put it on last three months. I think that is a pretty decent sample. And again, sometimes I will look even deeper. Last round is another way to do it. But just to see, you would be surprised, some of the guys are not as high as you would think. A guy like Alex Noren, I cannot remember what he was at when I looked, but he putted so well, and that kind of masks his approach play, which sometimes is not as good as it was. But I think this is another good look.

 

Yeah, I am on last twenty four rounds. You see Noren's third worst percentage inside ten. Xander, last twenty four rounds, so much is surprising. There was a little lull there on approach for Xander. He seemed to figure it out a little bit in Detroit and get himself in the mix a little bit, so it is definitely capturing some of his not quite as good stuff. And again, you can mess around with the rounds. Like Ron said, you can go into the time frame in this situation, like three months. I would rather level set on rounds, because it is going to pull out some of the noise of whether it is a Rosie or a Rory, guys that are not playing as frequently as some of these other guys, and just level set what they have done recently. So yeah, you see some really good players in those first five there who are really struggling.

 

Yeah, Sepp has really, it has been a really down year for Sepp. When you think about how consistent he has really been for the last couple years, it has been pretty rough.

 

Yeah, a lot of red for some pretty good players in here. See Rory here, last twenty-four rounds, not inside fifteen quite often either. But again, playing just big boy events, majors only, this Rory sample is probably really, he does not have a Detroit in there, a 3M, compared to some of the other guys that have mixed a little bit. So yeah, definitely a good sense of who is giving themselves looks and then who can convert.

 

Yeah, a million ways to do this this week. Let's look at the comp courses real quick. We will back out here to see. I will look here at the last, say the last two years. We will throw in Southwind as well, which I like to do, and just get a sense of who has played well on the comp courses the last two years here. I will go all rounds to make sure we capture all that. Who has been the best? I am still in the scoring metrics, so let's just go strokes gained on all of your seven par seventy positional southeast sort of comp courses here.

 

Scottie, Koivun with just eight rounds. Tommy, Henley, Spaun, Matty Fitz, all a decent sample, gaining at least a stroke and a half on the field. Yellamaraju, a small sample, but he jumps up here. JT, Hovland, Cantlay, BG, Conners. Bobby Mac, Morikawa, and Thor all gaining more than a stroke. Hideki right on the other side of it there, with a really nice sample, gaining throughout the bag too. So again, I think a good week to look at comp courses. You can decide what the time frame is that you want to look at. If you want to pull out a noisy sample like eight rounds of Koivun, you can add it to the minimum rounds feature here, however you want to go about it. But I think this is also an interesting thing, and again probably some confirmation bias to some names that we like, some names that we have already seen through some other data shopping that we have done here today. So a good Rabbit Hole week. We have got enough of Southwind to do it.

 

So anything else for listeners before we wrap?

 

No, we covered it. I think also, obviously look at Bermuda splits, putting, chipping. But yeah, it is a week where hopefully they change the TOUR Championship. I would love to see match play in the future. I know I was talking with Frank Nobilo at the Detroit Rocket Classic. Apparently CBS does not want match play because it is just not good for TV, because you have the threat of it ending early, and then you have this broadcast window, you have to keep your hours. So I am not too optimistic that that is going to happen, but I would love for them to find a way to figure that out.

 

It is going to look different. What it looks like, we will see. But yeah, I also agree. The one thing that I think is right is the BMW, rotating on tracks that we do not get to see all the time. I like that. But I think the two, and no offense to people in Memphis and Atlanta, but this is tough to be there in August. It is just warm. Let's mix it up a little bit. There is a lot of great golf in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest that we do not get to go to early in the season, for different reasons. So let's mix some of that in. I know the logistics of hosting an event are massive, so there are some places that are just not built to have the footprint to hold it. But it is a little bit easier when you get to thirty guys. Can you imagine the TOUR Championship at Bandon Dunes? That would be amazing. Chicago Golf Club, come on. There is so much. Let's just go to some different places. So I think they will, and they will figure it out, but man, it will be interesting to see what happens. But again, Southwind, if you are a Memphis person, I hope they give it to you, maybe just on the second tour, Challenger Tour or whatever.

 

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