Patrick Cantlay spoke to the media ahead of the BMW Championship, where he was asked:
– Do you like that they scrapped the staggered start next week?
– Shouldn’t the best players have an advantage after the regular season?
– Is it still a season long championship if anyone can win the last event and win it all?
The starting strokes was tough just because we don’t play any tournaments like that and so it was kind of it felt goofy from a competitive point of view. I think you heard a lot of guys uh say something similar. So I think this is definitely an improvement and a step in the right direction. It depends how you how you you know think of the think of the competition. I think you could make the argument both ways. Um, you know, in other sports a lot of times the championship game, you know, the team that had the best regular season record doesn’t get a a head start in the finals or anything like that. And so, you know, I think having it be like most all the other big tournaments that we play and that everyone starts, you know, at level and the player who plays the best that week wins. I I think that’s uh fine for one of the biggest championships that we play out here. I think it is uh with a you know huge emphasis on the last week because you can’t you can’t get to the last week without playing well all year. Um so I do think it’s a seasonl long champion. It just uh has even more of an emphasis on on the tournament that week.
