Golf's Changing Landscape: Sergio Garcia's Potential Future

I just kind of just pulled a list of guys that, you know, figuring out what they currently stand. So in case Jon Rahm announced, he's out. Sergio Garcia got his contract terminated with LIV. He, he, his stated plans are to rejoin the DP World Tour. I'm not sure how that works. Cause if, if I remember correctly, he was one of the guys that resigned their membership when he left the DP World Tour, David Puig confirmed out. He's going to go pursue DP World Tour membership, Adrian, Marac just won the Dunhill Links and will pursue DP World Tour membership with that win and that status I wonder how how that works for him in that scenario because would he have been playing on some type of sponsors invite I assume and then wins and all of a sudden does he get does he have now like he's in a position where he has full status and isn't in as much of a need to negotiate with the DP World Tour as maybe a Sergio like you're talking about or maybe a well a Tyrrell Hatton has like a deal with them but uh for the players that don't have structured deals that's that's the confusing one because Rom was in at one point like didn't even have a deal structured the DP World Tour because he was playing hardball that's right and all of a sudden now he's like wait I need a DP World Tour jacket like that I can put on because he's gonna be wearing it all he's gonna be need to play it all next year that was like the Ernie Els path you know when he left live had to kind of like work his way back through you know exemptions or he's good by the way I've been watching a bunch this fall second on the DP World Tour, you know, Order of Merit, he's gonna get his tour card, he he kind of reminds me of like a senior tour player, like he he reminds me like a Vijay Singh, yeah, like I don't know why, like it's the broomstick just the way that he kind of carries himself a little bit, there's some like Vijay Singh to to Chicago, he kind of like you know how like Rory's got the bounce, he's kind of got like a little bit of a plod, like He kind of plods around, and he's got, like, a certain type of hat. Yeah, but he's not, like, this fit dude. Like, he wears the same shirt every day, it seems like, the same outfit. Like, there's nothing that's from just a brand standpoint. The guy just, like, shows up every day and just, like, good at golf. But he's not very impressive when you just, like, watch him just kind of carry himself. And if you look at that list of guys, I'm scrolling down here to get the current DP World Tour list, where there is a number of, I mean, Patrick Reed's, of course, at the top of that list of the guys that, golly. He still hasn't made a start yet on the PGA Tour. I was kind of thinking that we'd see him play this fall. I think he's first on that Race to Dubai list, and I'm sure that's a lucrative thing to finish first on that, so probably wants to see that out and then get his card that way. He's played the PGA Tour. It's not going anywhere for him. yeah he and Eugenio Chacarra are the top two on that list right now that are both in line to get their tour cards but I think I think what's going to be really interesting and this is something we're going to continue to delve into this fall as we get more of this promised information that Brian Rolap talked about is what happens when they look at these 10 DP World Tour cards they were handing out before they were kind of I forget how the category worked but they were like maybe in a category above the former tour graduates or somewhere in that sort of world and you're looking at less and less cards you know we've gone from one whatever it was 125 to 100 and it's going to be 90 in this new for the new championship series so how many cards are you going to give if you want those field sizes to be like 120 130 on the championship tour and you're going to still have 20 former Korn Ferry Tour grads how many of those cards can you give to DP World Tour guys and that should be going into effect you know so the current 10 for this season for 2026 that will stay the same but there is going to be a criteria change for the 2027 grads that enter in 2028 and there's a good chance we're going to see golly five seven ten live guys trying to play their way back on the tour through that route because they will serve their in effect one year ban from having the last live event they played so that you know this effectively what Patrick Reed did this year it's going to be a very interesting picture on the DP World Tour next year to see who ends up playing it and how many cards that are awarded that can earn their way back to the PGA Tour.