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Former PGA Tour winner and LIV Golfer cut from Saudi-backed league · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Craig Way with you, Cameron Parker, the producer alongside Glad
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us as well, and we're with
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  Speaker 1: you each and every weekday from two to five. I
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  Speaker 1: was going to respond to feedback on the on the
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  Speaker 1: things in the here. But every it seems like every
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  Speaker 1: few weeks now I'm getting these things about you got
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  Speaker 1: locked me out a few minutes ago, And so I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do that on the in the meantime, I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to ask you and and coming up in a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes, Greg Tapper, managing editor of Dave Campbell's Texas
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  Speaker 1: some conversations that Will Matthews from our long run radio
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  Speaker 1: network broadcast crew has with the players. We have that
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  Speaker 1: coming up as well. But I wanted to ask you
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  Speaker 1: about this. What is the name Hudson Swafford mean to you.
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  Speaker 2: Hudson Swafford, a PJ tour golfer, went to the University
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  Speaker 2: of Georgia. He's part of a really good Bulldogs class.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was out there with Brian Harmon in Harris,
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  Speaker 2: English and a handful of others got to the tour.
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  Speaker 2: I believe he won once or twice on the tour
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  Speaker 2: before defecting to Live Golf Tour, where he really hasn't
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  Speaker 2: been heard of from too much lately. But I guess
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  Speaker 2: if you're bringing him up, that means he's back to
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  Speaker 2: the news for something. Was he just talking trash to Texas?
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  Speaker 1: No? No, Hudson Swafford is in a unique position. He
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  Speaker 1: apparently has been, as he says, quote unquote, rejected by
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  Speaker 1: Live Golf and banned from returning to the PGA Tour.
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  Speaker 1: He's a pro golfer without a home.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's a shame.
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  Speaker 1: So he's not going to return to Live Golf after
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  Speaker 1: a dismal twenty twenty four season. He tied for thirty
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  Speaker 1: six in the first event of the year and he
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  Speaker 1: did no better than that. He didn't get better that,
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  Speaker 1: and the bosses of the Salui Back Tour have opted
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  Speaker 1: not to renew his contract. Compounding his misery is the
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  Speaker 1: fact that, even if he wanted to return to the
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  Speaker 1: PGA Tour, he's ineligible for another twelve months due to
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  Speaker 1: having competed in Live, which would consider which it considers
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  Speaker 1: an unauthorized event. So he opened his PGA Tour account
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen by winning you mentioned he won, He won
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  Speaker 1: the Career Builder Challenge in California. He had to wait
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  Speaker 1: more than three years for a second win. That was
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  Speaker 1: that the Kraalis Pandicana Resorting Club Championship. Then he went
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  Speaker 1: into the American Express in twenty twenty two, so he
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  Speaker 1: had gained some momentum in the States, but decided to
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  Speaker 1: join Live Golf for its inaugural event and had his
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  Speaker 1: PGA Tour members ship suspended indefinitely as a result. Then
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  Speaker 1: he had a hip injury which knocked him out for
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  Speaker 1: a large chunk of last year, and he was one
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  Speaker 1: of two wild cards this season. His wild card status
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  Speaker 1: saved him from the drop despite finishing in the relegation zone,
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  Speaker 1: but his contract has not been renewed, so he's booted
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  Speaker 1: out of Live. He's not able to return to the
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  Speaker 1: PGA Tour for another year. He could go to the
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  Speaker 1: Asian Tour International Series, which is serving as a pathway
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  Speaker 1: to Live for whoever finishes in the top of those standings,
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  Speaker 1: but he's he apparently doesn't know where he's going to go,
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  Speaker 1: what he's going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that that hip injury probably, you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously a big part of being able to play good
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  Speaker 2: golf is you know, have a healthy hip. And obviously
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  Speaker 2: looks like he probably didn't either recover a full hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent when he came back in time. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think they have a lot of pressure with their
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  Speaker 2: contracts to be able to play through injury or play
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  Speaker 2: in these events and not miss events and just came
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  Speaker 2: back and you know, it was in the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: the standing, so and it's tough. You know that that's
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  Speaker 2: the thing with you know, you go and make this move.
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  Speaker 2: And if you don't already have you know, a couple
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  Speaker 2: of major championships or a lot of money in the
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  Speaker 2: bank already, and you're because your banned from the PGA
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  Speaker 2: Tour and something like this happens, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: your career looks completely different because if he was injured
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  Speaker 2: on the PGA Tour, he could go through a medical
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  Speaker 2: exemp list, right, and then you get a certain amount
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  Speaker 2: of uh starts when you come back off the injured
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  Speaker 2: list kind of and be able to you know, play
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  Speaker 2: in these events, or at least work your way back
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  Speaker 2: into these events through the corn Ferry Tour or other
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  Speaker 2: PGA tours. Now there is still a pathway through, like
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  Speaker 2: the Asian World Tour whatever, where if you win it,
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  Speaker 2: you get a Lift Golf spot. But yeah, the negatives
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  Speaker 2: of defecting from the PJ Tour in joining this Lift tour.
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  Speaker 2: And he doesn't have the major championships to get himself
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  Speaker 2: exempt into the Masters or the US Open or the
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  Speaker 2: PJA or the British Open, like the Shambo or Koepka
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  Speaker 2: or DJ or Sergio. So there's always a negative. Craig
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  Speaker 2: was a negative. So I mean, I guess it was
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  Speaker 2: a risk for Yeah, it sucks for for him to
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  Speaker 2: be injured like that, but also you know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: dug himself his own hole.
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  Speaker 1: See I didn't know Live Golf was doing it. I
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  Speaker 1: thought that was like whoever wants to come, come one,
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  Speaker 1: come all, because they were trying to make a name
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  Speaker 1: of themselves, but even they have their own relegation. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: part I suppose on the text line somebody brought up
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  Speaker 1: you know, I mentioned Lyle Lovin and I said he
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  Speaker 1: was with Julia Roberts. Somebody said, yeah, don't forget that
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  Speaker 1: Lyle love It was married to Julia Roberts for about
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  Speaker 1: nineteen minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is two years. Yeah crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I brought up on that Pizza Hut pizza about the
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  Speaker 1: squid tentacles deep fried. Somebody said, isn't deep fried squid
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  Speaker 1: tentacles basically just calamari. It's pretty close, right, because what
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  Speaker 1: is what is kalamari? It's it's they just squidid. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's yeah. See I like kalamar. I do too, so
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  Speaker 1: I think you would like that part of the pizza. See,
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  Speaker 1: this is weird.
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  Speaker 2: Usually I'm the one who's against these weird food things
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  Speaker 2: and you are You're for it, but we're flipped here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll try most anything. I don't know about the
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  Speaker 1: blood cake. So if you took the blood thing out
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  Speaker 1: of it and it was just a deep fry, somebody said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: that tastes like chicken blood, right, yeah, and he said
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  Speaker 1: the funky cold Medina ghostfish. We're talking about that ghost
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  Speaker 1: fish story there, And then somebody else said, hey, it
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  Speaker 1: was only a matter of time before Live started weeding
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  Speaker 1: out lower level golfers as they had bigger names with
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  Speaker 1: their set number of players in each field, So do
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  Speaker 1: have that set number for those fifty four whole tournaments?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I don't know. I mean some
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  Speaker 2: of these names, I still don't think they're I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you still got guys that like, I don't know, I've
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  Speaker 2: never even heard of, like Kieran Vincent, you know who
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  Speaker 2: calls Urties Still you know other guys.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't heard him. I know I haven't because
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  Speaker 1: I know you pay great attention to Live because you
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  Speaker 1: hate it so much. Oh, I don't hate it so
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  Speaker 1: Rice and to Shambo kind of turned you. Now now
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of kind of leaning toward the dark side.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm leaning. I still didn't watch
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  Speaker 2: a single event from from Living, don't. I don't dislike
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  Speaker 2: Rising as much as I used to, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, last event swaffered from this thirteen over par
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  Speaker 2: and the winners were eleven unders. I must say, well,
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  Speaker 2: the PJA Tour, you have guys who missed the cut
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  Speaker 2: and they are twenty something shots. But yeah, but it's
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  Speaker 2: four days and you have to qualify for these events,
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  Speaker 2: and Live Golf Tour there is no qualification.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I thought it was just like come one,
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  Speaker 1: come all, You're all.
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  Speaker 2: They now have added more and more players and they
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  Speaker 2: have their own little relegation system, which is interesting. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of kind of like European soccer mixed with whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't you go and play corn Ferry, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's only by the PJA Tour. I'm saying he was.
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  Speaker 2: It has to be a he had not gone to
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  Speaker 2: Live Golf Tour and this happens where he loses his
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  Speaker 2: PGA Tour card. So he can still earn it back
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  Speaker 2: through the corn Ferry Tour or the Mackenzie Tour, or
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  Speaker 2: one of the other millions of tours, whether it's in Australia,
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  Speaker 2: the Sunrise to whatever. But because they're owned by the
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  Speaker 2: PJA Tour, he's obviously banned from those, so we can't
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  Speaker 2: qualify through that. So really the only way he can
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  Speaker 2: kind of get back in is if he goes through
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  Speaker 2: the Asian Tour. I think he could technically go through
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  Speaker 2: maybe the lower left of DP World Tours, but anything
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  Speaker 2: with the PGA Tour he's screwed because he can't get
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  Speaker 2: that card.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of like Major League Baseball players
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  Speaker 1: when they don't have a home in the American and
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  Speaker 1: National League, they wind up going to Japan to play,
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  Speaker 1: or Korea work their way back.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if that's the case.
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  Speaker 1: Or independent ball, right, yep, play indie ball absolutely all right.
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