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Are PDGA Payouts Broken? Brodie Smith Weighs In
Brodie Smith weighs in on the controversy surrounding PDGA payouts in disc golf. He questions the fairness of the current system, where top finishers receive significantly less than PGA Tour competitors for similar performances. Smith explores a hypothetical scenario where tournament purses are adjusted to reflect the PGA Tour's payout structure, using Calvin, the winner of a recent Memorial event as an example. By applying this new format, even small increases in prize money can result in substantial paydays for top finishers, with Calvin's winnings jumping from $4,500 to over $9,500. Join Brodie Smith as he breaks down the implications of this potential change and what it might mean for the future of disc golf.
Watch Brodie Smith share his thoughts on PDGA payout fairness & tournament compensation in professional disc golf.
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you know if we want to throw in the money thing again right now in disc golf i think if you could take a situation where you get second place at every tournament right yeah or you win one of those tournaments and you don't money at any of the other ones i think everyone's taking second place at every tournament right now yeah yeah yeah you're taking that one wing yeah you want the one totally because you're cashing a couple million dollars yeah yeah i mean i think we we looked at this um and i think i can still pull this up uh one of our fans listeners um his name was zack uh mullins i believe oh we talked about this a little bit in the follow up yeah we talked about this in the follow up yeah if you guys aren't a member of the follow up you're missing out can i do a plug right now while you're looking it up go for it you need to check out the patreon page guys uh tons of benefits over there you get discount codes you get early access to limited drops and you get access to the discord and the follow-up which is basically is a hangout session i think we had i don't know how many people we had in there 80 90 people or something just chilling asking questions yeah so i have it pulled up uh that was actually perfect timing yeah we did not plan that um yeah so this is basically if we took the current purses of the pdga and we use the pga's paying percentages what the payout would look like so no more added cash is coming into disc golf right with these things this is just the disc golf pro tour events after this year the memorial first place with pdga current breakdown whoever won i think it was calvin who won memorials here calvin calvin woman yeah yeah calvin's awesome yeah so calvin this year took home 4 500 okay without adding a single dollar to the purse we just break it down the way the pga tour does calvin instead is taking home nine thousand five hundred and eighty five dollars an increase of five thousand and eighty five dollars and all that is is just changing the way the purse is distributed so...
