Dear Max, Corey, and Sahith

Dear Max, Corey, and Sahith, 

I have a favor to ask you. I don't know how you feel about the changes the Tour has proposed, but if you are in any way opposed to them, I respectfully ask you to speak up. 

Go tell the guys on the board about your path to greatness. Remind them that you were all once fighting for starts and a place to play. Remind them that their next Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup teammate might be far down the KFT points list, or missing at Monday Q's right now.  

To Max: remind Patrick Cantlay about the four straight birdies at the 2018 KFT regular season finale that saved your season – and maybe your career. Tell him it allowed you to have a place to play the following season and it freed you up for the KFT finals, where you earned your PGA Tour card. Tell him what that round meant to your life and career. 

Then, tell him about the following year on the PGA Tour when you were sleeping on your buddy's couch at Waste Management after you had qualified on Monday. I'm sure you remember that you had made just one of seven cuts and had broken 70 just twice in 14 rounds that year. Then tell him that you went on to finish T26 that week in Phoenix and how much confidence that finish gave you. 

The next week, you finished T10 at AT&T and were off to the races. Nine events after the Monday qualifier at Waste Management, you won your first PGA Tour event. 

Talk about what Portland and the WMO meant to your career. Without those events your career success would have been delayed a season, and at the very worst, might have never happened. Remind him that the Tour already did away with the KFT Finals where you earned your card, and now they are cutting even more cards. 

Tell him success takes time, even for All-Americans. 

To Corey: talk with Adam Scott about the Monday Q at Valero in 2019. Tell him about the 30-foot bomb you made on 18 just to sneak into the six-for-one playoff for the fourth and final spot. He's never been to a Monday; tell them what they are like, and explain what it felt like to go from that to Augusta National seven days later. 

Yes, I know you had your card locked up for the following season but explain that was because of the Sony Open, where you Monday Q'd and finished in a tie for third. Explain the relief you felt at the end of that week knowing that you had a job for the next season, basically wrapped up in January, and how that relief freed you up for the rest of the season. You went into Texas that Monday wanting to get through but not NEEDING to get through. 

Then tell him that if the proposed changes to Monday Qs from four spots to just two had been in place, you wouldn't have gotten into either of those events. 

To Sahith: head over to Jordan and tell him about your flight to Boise in 2021 – I'm sure he doesn't know the story. Tell him you played some KFT events that season but didn't earn enough points to get into the KFT finals. Explain that you played events on the PGA Tour that year through exemptions, and played well enough to be close to earning a spot in the KFT finals.

Tell him it was so close that when you took off for Boise the Sunday before the event began, when you landed, there was a chance you had been knocked out of the field. Remind him of the relief and joy you felt when you turned on your phone and knew you had a spot. The text exchange we had that day is the lead photo in this article. Tell him that feeling of not being in control of your own destiny.

Although you missed the cut in Boise, tell him about the amazing golf you played over the next two events to earn your PGA Tour card. Remind him that the path you took to get there is already gone, and ask him to protect the few ways there are to get on the PGA Tour. 

And to all three of you, please go talk to Malnati. He knows about the grind. Ask him to stand up for the little guys because he is one of them. Tell him you understand that change is fine and the top players should earn more, but tell him to fight for the paths that helped all three of you get there. Tell him the history of the PGA Tour has always had stories like his and yours, and it should be a part of the future. 

Tell them to take a minute and do what's best for the game, not just what is best for them. 

I know all three of you are humble and appreciative of your place on the PGA Tour. I also know each of your journeys to the PGA Tour is the dream of the thousands of players chasing it now and of those that will chase it in the future. If you believe some of these changes aren't in the best interest of the game, I humbly ask you to speak up, so those players behind you have the same chance.

Thanks,

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