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Hack It Out Golf

Was the Players Field Weak?

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Sports, Education, Golf

4.7267 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Last week's Players Championship was a great event, ending with a dramatic, heartbreaking lip out. Historically, this tournament has tended to have one of the strongest—if not the strongest—fields in professional golf. Obviously, that was slightly less true this year, with yet another major competitor having decided to play on the LIV Tour. In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg discuss some of the history of the fields at the Players and what its current state is.


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0:00.0

So let's talk about the players championship.

0:02.5

When the time of us recording this pod is actually on when you're listening to it,

0:06.6

it would have finished.

0:07.7

But the field is the field.

0:08.8

And I want to talk about is this maybe one of the weakest fields that this tournament has seen?

0:14.4

Or has it had weaker fields in the past?

0:17.0

I think Greg's done some research on older fields, which would be quite interesting.

0:20.9

Because obviously the players is, you know, branded as some ways as the fifth major. It

0:26.9

certainly is an event that I love watching and love, you know, everything around it is

0:33.5

exciting. I think the course is exciting. I've been lucky enough to play it. So watching them play it, I think it's always interesting.

0:40.3

But watching a field get weaker is maybe not so good.

0:44.8

And possibly does it even matter that it's getting weaker, which we'll talk about.

0:49.4

Lou and Greg, welcome.

0:50.4

How are you both doing?

0:51.1

The players.

0:51.7

We're talking the players championship.

0:53.8

How weak's the field this

0:54.9

year do you think lou really weak well i mean i mean you're not in it without Craig chalmers in it

1:00.6

it is probably the weakest field ever another a new needle of golf yeah so yeah like the number one

1:08.7

great needle in golf. Yes.

1:15.2

I tell you, I tell you guys, I did a little bit of research for this because I wanted to make sure I was at least half educated.

1:17.0

Yeah.

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