The Schwab Cup Playoffs Begin!
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The Schwab Cup Playoffs are underway! In this episode, recorded after the first playoff event (the Dominion Energy Charity Classic) and before the second (the Simmons Bank Championship), Greg joins Mark and Lou to recap the first event, talk about the marvel that is Bernhard Langer, explain what went slightly sideways in his closing round, and what he's aiming for as the Playoffs conclude and the offseason begins.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Hackettale Golf Podcast. |
| 0:01.8 | We're going to check in with Gregi this week. |
| 0:03.7 | He has played the first event in his playoffs, so one of three. |
| 0:10.0 | He'll tell us more, but this is the Charles Swab Cup. |
| 0:13.2 | He had three or two very good days, third day, a bit disappointing, which we'll get into as well. |
| 0:19.4 | Lou is also with us. |
| 0:20.9 | Greg, talk to us. |
| 0:23.0 | Explain to us how the Charles World Cup works |
| 0:25.8 | for the listeners who didn't follow along last year when you did. |
| 0:29.2 | Yeah, so, yeah, we have three playoff events. |
| 0:32.2 | The first one is 72 players. |
| 0:34.3 | The second one is 54 players. |
| 0:36.4 | And the last one is the one you really want to get to |
| 0:38.5 | is just 36 players. They're fully exempt in all the majors and have all the playing rights |
| 0:43.2 | that comes with it. The dollar value of what we earn is doubled in points. They go to a point |
| 0:50.5 | system. So if you've earned, you know, $600,000, they give you $600,000 points. |
| 0:55.8 | And for every dollar you earn in the playoffs, that will be two points for every dollar you earn. |
| 1:00.0 | So a win in the playoffs is like two wins in terms of it's a little more volatile, a little more |
| 1:05.3 | movement, trying to generate, you know, like more of a playoff feel, which is I guess pretty |
| 1:10.1 | similar to what the PGA tour does in a lot of ways. |
| 1:12.6 | So we're often running. |
| 1:14.1 | We're often running. |
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