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Player of the Year is BROKEN - Grip Locked Clips
The PDGA Player of the Year standings have been met with criticism from some players and fans, who point to issues with the system itself and its implementation for the 2023 season. The changes made due to COVID-19 may be a contributing factor, but others argue that they were not sufficient to address long-standing concerns. Paul McBeth is in third place, ahead of Calvin Hebert and Ricky Wysocki, while Chris Dickerson leads the standings. The debate surrounding the player of the year title has sparked discussion about the PDGA's system and its potential flaws. With a focus on the controversy surrounding the Player of the Year awards, this video breaks down the issues with the system and examines the implications for the professional disc golf tour.
Top pros face shocking setbacks at the Disc Golf Pro Tour, grip locked clips shatter Player of the Year hopes.
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so um before we get into our final segment of make that call i want to touch on um the pdga player of the year standings it's bad they released them and i don't want to judge it too hard because they made a lot of changes due to covid yeah one thing i didn't see but maybe i overlooked it but when we were talking to paul about it it seems like normally they had a restriction on the amount of eight tiers they counted um it took it off it doesn't seem like that's there this year but i'm wondering if it's because of this i'm wondering if this is like the way around it is they made um they made pro tour have national tour level points right so i'm wondering if that's why like the ten eight-tier um restrictions still in but since the pro tours are no longer a tiers they're considered national tours for this maybe that's where that came in um i should after paul said it you know today and i should have looked into it a little bit more after that but regardless i think that this in general um shows a few issues with the system overall and then it shows a lot of issues with the system specifically this year for covid which again i want to mention the pdga did change the system for covid yeah to try to allow basically allow it to be a more legitimate system for this year i think they failed in that because it basically if you played a lot of a tiers you won player of the year i mean they should be able to just i mean we'll talk about the standings here in a second but if you should be able to just look at hear these standings and regardless of what you like the people that we thought like were you could argue for player of the year over paul like aren't even the top i don't think mpo npo i'm not super upset about you are out of your mind okay well let's go to mpo first it's shocking npo chris dickerson leads and um then it goes ricky wysocki second yeah paul third and i believe calvin was fourth um but it goes chris basically words paul but i don't have an issue with chris it's...
