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I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. I am your host

Andy Johnson. We've got a great show today. I'm excited about it actually. We had Gary Young. He's one of the PGA Tour's chief referees on to talk all things PGA Tour set up. That's me and Joseph Lamagna talking with Gary. It was enlightening. There was a lot of stuff I learned from it about how they go about setting up a golf course for a PGA tour event.

And then we talked about some of the hot topics, TIO,

Pace Play, Preferred Lies, all sorts of stuff.

So it was really fun chat with Gary.

I appreciate him coming on and, you know,

answering questions, answering questions

that an idiot like me has about what he does first job but uh before we

get to that we got to do in and out Joseph what are you in on this week

Andy I am in on signature events with a cut this week at the Genesis Invitational.

We're going to see the first signature event, the PGA Tour's new model with a limited field and a cut.

So field of about 80 players, they're going to cut down to the top 50 in ties after two days.

I think that is a wonderful recipe

for the modern golf product.

And I would love to see more of these signature events,

limited fields that don't have a cut, implement a cut. I think it adds something, it's

additive, it introduces some competitiveness to the event, and makes it not feel like a WGC where guys are climbing from T61 to

T48 on Sunday that really don't need to be on the golf course. So I think

people are really going to like that cut line this week at Riviera and it's something I'm excited about.

I think the signature events should have a cut line so that's what I'm in on.

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