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Pay the Winners What They Deserve | Grip Locked Clips
Grip Locked Clips dives into the topic of fair player payouts in professional disc golf tournaments, particularly focusing on the Jonesboro storyline and its online discussion. The conversation centers around Brody Smith's Twitter post highlighting the $500 player pack incentive in the event, with comments from Jeff Spring addressing the pros and cons of redistribution. Spring shares his perspective on PGA policy, emphasizing that purses continue to grow due to increased prize money for top finishers. The debate also touches on the fairness of payouts, with some arguing for a more "top-heavy" distribution system, where lower-ranked players receive smaller checks. Additionally, the discussion mentions notable touring pros like Brian Earhart and his struggles to maintain a touring season without substantial prize money.
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one final jonesboro storyline did not come from the course but came from social media which was brody smith's twitter yet again i feel like it's been a while since we've got a story line from brodie smith twitter but yeah here it is so initially he just put out a tweet with a screenshot of the jonesboro payout and his whole point was on the player's pack because all the players got a mug and i think a dinner that was the players pack right and he was saying i really wish that money would just go back into the like fifty five hundred dollars in the breakdown was like players allocated it just said players pack yeah which jeff spring quickly replied and stated those are just donated items and an assumed value was assigned to them getting rid of them wouldn't actually add to the pro purse so no storyline solved right well people from that post started making other comments regarding the actual payout so someone responded and said they should only pay thirty in my opinion about seven thousand dollars more to spread out and can make first place ten thousand dollars every pro tour event should give ten thousand dollars to first jeff spring replies pga policy is top forty percent cash and for good reason purses continue to grow that's what gets us 10k not redistribution we're getting there one step at a time the 27 500 added cashier is an achievement for the event team disc golf pro tour purses are trending in the right direction you know he's right the 27 500 added cash is a huge achievement um we'll talk about the rest of it in a second another response said i 100 agree that payouts need to be much more top-heavy someone placing 29th shouldn't get 500 that seems crazy jeff spring responds tied 30th right now shot 10 27 and someone like brian earhart for example a touring pro definitely can use the 500 payout he's earning from a great performance to keep his touring season solvent very difficult to come in top 30 disc golf pro tour elite series events before okay before you get into it i just want to make one quick comment the fact that he uses the argument of well 30th place shot 1027 basically saying like it's so hard to even get...
