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00:00And, hey, I give Rory a ton of credit this fall because you see a lot of guys don't even
00:09play.
00:10They don't do anything.
00:11They just play at home and Rory's, you know, he winning on the DP World Tour and winning
00:18his sixth Order of Merit race to Dubai.
00:21That means something to him.
00:22He wants to be the top European player of all time.
00:26So I have to admire his passion for wanting to be the best and working to get to a point
00:34to where, hey, I know we haven't won a major in 10 years, but who's to say that he can't
00:41pick off three or four more if he can't get his swing exactly the way he wants it?
00:45And I mean, it, gosh, I'd love to see it, right?
00:50Like I think we just have so much battle scars as like fans of Rory's.
00:54Yeah.
00:55100 percent.
00:56And I mean, I think it's it's Rory.
01:00He goes about things in a very it's he's very rarely like half and it's like he's all in
01:04on a certain direction.
01:05It feels like, you know, whatever that direction is and he'll let you know about it.
01:09And so on the topic of where Rory's playing another Dylan to share a story on golf dot
01:14com looking at his upcoming schedule this year, he's we went from a whole overhaul and
01:20a whole new schedule this year set up to play more before majors playing events he hadn't
01:24played in the past to kind of gear up for these majors to completely going back in a
01:28different direction and cutting way down on events.
01:31So no century this year that's smart.
01:34It's smart.
01:35He he played too much like he he played Valera before the Masters, just trying to like find
01:40a way to get in rhythm before the Masters.
01:43But it just seemed like he had played much because remember, he plays like overseas at
01:47the beginning of the year to correct.
01:49So so that's so and that's why he usually skips a century every year is because he's
01:53still overseas playing on the DP World Tour.
01:56He's not going to play the cognizant this year like he played last year or the Valero
02:00Texas Open or a signature event in the RBC Heritage.
02:04The one that popped for me the most was he's probably not going to play the first round
02:07of the playoffs.
02:08He said this to James Corrigan of the Telegraph, I'll probably not play the first playoff event
02:12in Memphis.
02:13I mean, I finished basically dead last year this this year and only moved down one spot
02:17in the playoffs.
02:18And that's if he was like, this is why this is why the playoffs having Rory McIlroy say
02:26that there has to be alarms going off at PGA Tour headquarters saying we have to change
02:33our playoff structure, not next year, now like we can't afford to have Rory McIlroy
02:39saying this because we can't have our number one sponsor seeing Rory McIlroy say that and
02:47you know what?
02:48I can skip this week.
02:49I'll see if the BMW that to me was such an alarming statement and one that we've been
02:56calling for.
02:57We need a restructured playoff system.
03:00I think that there are a lot of different ways that the statements being read among
03:06them and people saying this is Rory kind of being fed up with being trotted out by the
03:11PGA Tour being used a number of different ways, sort of a poster boy.
03:14And then, you know, things not going the way he wants them to go, which I think is
03:17an interesting viewpoint.
03:19But that to me is a huge, huge alarm.
03:22As you said, in terms of like, if we're going to have guys who are now skipping, we have
03:26a 70 player field to have this whole thing structured.
03:29And one guy's gonna say, ah, I'm good on that elevated purse.
03:33I don't really need to.
03:34I'll just see, you know, wherever the BMW is not good.
03:37That's not good.
03:38So we think Memphis should be in the spring anyways.
03:41It's too hot in August to have to have that event.
03:44And I don't see the huge difference in FedEx.
03:47Like I know they want to have be a part of the last couple events, but really when it
03:54comes down to it, like in August, I mean, people were out playing golf.
03:57Like I think in the springtime, it's probably just as advantageous to be a standalone signature
04:03event and you probably have just as good as ratings and get just as good a turnout from
04:08probably get a much better turnout, honestly, in Memphis than you would then, then you went
04:12in August.