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Originally Posted by DoubleK
This may have been true in the past but it's not anymore. The fields for non-major, non-playoff events is garbage.
Brendan Quinn from The Athletic is reporting that the top 21 players in the OWGR have only played in 7 tournaments together all year. In 34 weeks. Outside of the majors there are maybe 5 tournaments that have any sort of cachet and one if them isn't on any tour or pays any money (JP McManus).
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The lowest field rating of the lowest (non-alternate field) PGA tour event is still significantly higher than any of the DP tour events (outside the Saudi sponsored ones and the Irish open that had the North American players come over).
If you look at the winners for the year on the pga tour, outside of maybe 2-3, they are all top players.
I watch dvr'd weekend coverage of pga events pretty much every week. Outside of the events with bad schedules (the week before and after everyone goes to Britain for a few weeks), they always have a good handful of the top 25 players in the world, and it's tougher than ever to win a pga tour event.