Revamping the FedEx Cup Playoffs: A Call for Simpler Rules
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00:00In terms of this 72 holes with the strokes, which I don't like Keith. I know I didn't talk to you Wednesday
00:06They gotta be another way. I don't have the answer, but there's got to be another way to to crown this FedExCup champion
00:14You know what Mike it's pretty simple. You just run the tournament like every other tournament
00:19There's no other playoff system where you know the football game the guy you know
00:23Cuz I don't know because you won your division you get a seven-point lead because you're Pat Mahomes
00:27I mean the stuff it just doesn't make any sense and you know
00:30They're just trying to deal with these guys who complain about the fact that oh, I played great all year all right
00:35So then jack up that Comcast top ten purse that they get after the Wyndham and then pay the guys more money there
00:41But if the playoffs are like this every other playoffs. It's it's basically an elimination, so let's eliminate people
00:47I I don't understand all this it all goes back to 2018 the famous tiger walking down 18
00:53You know he looked like the Pied Piper with all the fans coming behind him nobody knows that Justin Rose won the FedExCup that year
01:00Right cuz tiger won the tour championship
01:02And that really kind of was the tipping point that they were like well
01:06We need to make it so that whoever wins this wins the FedExCup trophy. Well. It's not a regular season
01:12Contest there's just too much going on if you want to make this thing. You know I I've talked to a bunch of people this
01:18Week I said give me 32 people will play match play 32 16 8 and then 4 and 2 on Sunday
01:24But instead of match play will play stroke play you play 18 holes head-to-head
01:27You know and the low score moves on you know instead of going hole by hole like you wouldn't a Ryder Cup or
01:33President's Cup or something like that I mean there are ways to do this Mike
01:36But what they're doing right now is is the worst of all worlds you know
01:40Scotty goes out and and they don't even really kind of get it
01:43You know the tour doesn't even know how to market themselves properly because after yesterday
01:48They said he had the largest lead ever the PGA Tour history after 18 holes
01:52It was 7 well he started with a two-shot lead
01:55Over Xander and not only that but it was really a one-shot lead because Colin a bunch of other guys shot 5-under and Scotty shot
02:026 it's just out of it creates so much confusion
02:05Amongst real golf fans that we have here on sports grid that you and I we talked to every week
02:09I don't get it. I'm with you I
02:12Think that's the biggest thing Keith is obviously we've done this all year
02:15We've had a great thing with golf Wednesdays. We've had a lot of winners all of us me
02:19You can we've done a great job, and I think even the people that have gotten into it with us
02:23You know they'll look at a week like this
02:25And I got some some hits on social media about it like what am I?
02:30What am I looking at here this week because there's a market with the strokes
02:33There's a market without the strokes now
02:36Markets without Scotty in the strokes with Scotty and mr.. Like it's
02:40Confusing Keith from a betting perspective to get involved with this tournament this week with only 30 golfers in it
02:47It shouldn't be and I think that that's what makes it toughest