Matt Adams reacts to the 1st event of the PGA Tour season (The Sentry) which marks one of the Tour’s new “Signature Events” with limited fields and in some cases (like The Sentry) no cuts.
So this week is not a signature event right and I’m sure that’s not the way that that’s the powers that be will want me to introduce an event coming into a week say it’s not a signature event but however that dichotomy that have and
Have not if you will has been set up by the tour itself now having said that I don’t mean that to sound disparaging if you think it otherwise does because I’m a golf geek and I’m excited about this week’s coverage I’m excited about watching golf in Prime Time Again
Coming from Paradise I think it’s really really cool I’m excited about some of the story lines that are weaving I’m excited about Gary Woodland being back coming back from the brain surgery had in the fall and he’s in the field and what I’m curious about
Is I get what they’re trying to do with the Signature Events I don’t like that they’re non cut events I haven’t from the beginning like that however I I understand what they’re trying to deliver and what they’re trying to say is hey BigTime sponsors we need to spend
Big time money right they’re responding to what’s going on with Liv right we’ve talked about this a million times competition makes you get better and from the standpoint of For Better or For Worse Major League Sports Major League Sports are with the best athletes in the world in their
Respective sports are very much about money too maybe not vested for you and I to think about the money like Chris Kirk won $3.6 million at the centry right I don’t think there’s anybody jumping up out of the couch and pumping their fist and going 3.6 million yeah maybe his
Agent right but what I’m saying is is is it’s part of everything that they had to do okay good if it makes the events better the idea was to to get the top players together more often the idea was to be able to look a sponsor in the eye and go
Yeah you’re going to get all or most of them right so this week however the Sony we’ve got oh there’s the purse breakdown Dom has up 3.6 million siah 2.16 Jordan spe talking about what how do you phras it little cash in the bank I’m not sure if he was actually talking
About money at 1.36 million that he was paid maybe he was talking about FedEx Cup points but they all represent cash in the bank at this point I mean the FedEx Cup points I mentioned this to you earlier in the show they’re literally going to mirror the finish at the
Century and and it frankly it’s a really nice reward for really nice performance in the season prior because remember it’s an expanded field now so you get in there you get as Jordan says a little bit in the bank as you head into the season that is 2024 because it’s a fresh
Start starting from zero do you guys like that do you guys like that the PJ tour season starts now in January versus what we’ve had for years where you had the fall season as the start of the insu it was a wraparound season do you like in January I for one
Never had really problem with the wraparound Seasons I I think people there were people that were offended by it because it wasn’t a January start and everything supposed to start in January and I’m thinking to myself well the NHL doesn’t start in January the NBA doesn’t start in January uh college
Football doesn’t start in January it goes over the top the you know because we’ve got the national championship coming up the NFL starts in the fall and finishes into the new year I mean so it didn’t really bother me that that gol did it that way but there were many
People that were vehemently against it and they had a lot of years to kind of percolate those emotions well it’s a whole new start now so what I’m getting at with all that is leagues corporations media entities uh PR companies they try to craft what they think will be important to
Fans they try to put together something they say oh no this is what they’re going to react to this is this is going to be it and I wonder if this week and maybe because it is a January start In fairness maybe because it’s something fresh and
New that will we react and go ho home it’s it’s a non-s signature event or my emotions right now are not at that place my my emotions are I’m excited about this week I’m looking forward to the action this week I’m looking forward to a full field I’m looking forward to a
Cut I’m looking forward to the storyline of of the so-called next T I’m looking forward to the storyline of the Swing five are you guys
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not a signature event !! Winner 29 under { was Bob Hope there ? } Resort golf course , wide fairways, flat greens . Not a course for a $20 million goff tournament !
They should make the par 3 competition at Augusta an elevated event.