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Dear Scottie,
I’m a big fan, you are awesome for the game. I know the policy board is who ultimately made the decision to get rid of a lot of the Mondays.
I hope you Understand this tweet isn’t a shot at you in any way.
All I ask is you talk with Will Chandler about his career in golf. Even before pro golf. Ask him how he went to Georgia, despite not having a spot on the team. Ask about how in most of the events he played in, he didn’t count towards the team scores. He played as an individual. Beat 1/4 of the players he played against.
Ask him that despite being the 7th or 8th guy on a 5 man team he still tried pro golf.
Then ask him what Mondays meant to him, what they did to change his career. Without them there is a 99% chance he wouldn’t be here right now.
Ask him about Monday Q’ing five times last year on the KFT, and earning status.
And then earning his pga tour card through Q-school.
10 months ago, he’d never played in a single KFT event, let alone a Tour one.
Yes, he is a member now, and yes part of the goal is reducing field size and getting rid of a lot of Monday Qs, means members will get into more events, but it will take away opportunities for guys behind him to change their career like he did.
On Monday I stood behind him and watched as he tried to figure out if one of the guys in the last group tied him. They didn’t and now, he gets to play in one of the coolest events on Tour in the same group as the best player in the world.
And that’s pretty cool.
Then all I ask you to do is talk with policy board and tell them about Will and what Mondays meant to him.
Thanks for listening. All the best.
This has to be one of the strangest decisions of @pgatour when it comes to being in the entertainment business. If it was up to me I’d be focusing more on Monday qualifiers. There’s a movie script story nearly every week. I’d give the leading qualifier a tv draw and get a tv crew to follow him for the week. I would do this even more so in the signature events. We could have a “tin cup” story any given week. Could you imagine a struggling pro finishing in the top 10 and winning half a million. Nobody would begrudge that payout.
@acaseofthegolf1 Awesome coverage Ryan! It’s hard to explain to someone the intensity & pressure out there. Unless you’ve been there. Nothing better!!
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