April 23, 2025 by Charlie Eisenhood in Opinion
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This week’s Mailbag isn’t based on a question as much as a general problem: the Triple Crown Tour season just doesn’t deliver the goods. Besides the US Open, TCT tournaments have no identity. The regular season feels generally flat. Teams with scheduling conflicts with their required event are forced to either abandon their wedding or pro game or send a skeleton crew (this is an actual problem, happening in 2025) that corrupts the rankings.
The crazy thing is that the current system might still be better than the ad hoc approach that teams used to take, but do we have to keep running back the same old tired TCT?
I’ve written plenty about some radical ideas — giving away bids to big tournament winners, having a wild card tournament — that could help shake things up. But these admittedly feel more like fun hypotheticals than serious proposals. So this week I want to dig more into a serious reconsideration of how the club season is structured.
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