Ian Carter

executives have realized over time that securing funding to play for even two and a half million dollars is very very challenging try securing funding to play for 15 million which is what they're going to need to play for to to entice these big names back minimum and frankly i would say you know it's not going to happen with bryson and john rahm if there's no and the shambles contract as well exactly i think bryson's a goner i really would say with

I think you could be most confident about saying Bryson will not be playing on Live Golf next year if you were to say something most confidently.

But there's lots of things to consider, yeah.

Jon is going to have to make a decision he doesn't want to have to make at some point in the next six months.

It looks as though...

Again, we're assuming that PIF are pulling funding, which I think is a safe assumption.

John's going to have to stump up some fines or eat some humble pie if he wants to be playing golf on either the PGA Tour or the DP World Tour next year.

They could both join the tour and be in category one, I think, as major winners within the last five years.

I'm not sure the PGA Tour are going to offer any sort of program back to any player.

And I think if they do...

Dale will find a way of excluding Cam Smith from that.

They might just bring that returning member program forward a year as to remove the 2022, um, part of it.

Um,

But I think they're going to take a very hard line start.

I think they can afford to.

The DP World Tour may decide that they commercially can see this as an opportunity and that they want to get as many players back playing on the DP World Tour as possible because it helps the business of the DP World Tour.

But I do think that comes with its own challenges.

And I think I would be a member that would be highly disappointed if they don't enforce, frankly, all of these guys to have to go back through the system the way I just had to do, which is go back to QScore and then your way back.

No, I would take issue with the use of the word ravaged because they haven't.

It's been a competition.