PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Together with his YouTube cameraman following alongside, Wesley Bryan offered his subscribers with some nice content material on Friday at PGA Tour Q-College.

The 33-year-old Bryan, a previous PGA Tour winner and social-media character as one half of Bryan Bros Golf, posted a 4-under 66 across the Dye’s Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass, carding not solely eight birdies but in addition a quadruple bogey on the par-4 17^th gap, his eighth gap of the second spherical. Bryan took a drop onto a sidehill lie after a poor drive, baseball-swung his third shot right into a bunker after which four-putted, a 1-foot, quick-hit miss resulting in the snowman.

Thrilling stuff.

The identical may very well be stated for this event, which for the primary time since 2012 isn’t just doling out Korn Ferry Tour standing. The highest 40 finishers and ties this week will nonetheless safe full KFT membership, however the stakes have been re-raised, and the highest 5 and ties will punch their tickets to the PGA Tour.

“It’s lastly thrilling once more,” Bryan stated.

A light-weight bulb then shortly went off.

“I feel they need to give out extra playing cards, and extra individuals ought to lose their playing cards,” Bryan continued. “Rising up, this was one in all my favourite occasions on TV. It was a spectacle occasion to observe, a lot stress, and there was simply a lot using on it. This week, there’s a lot using, however I’ll say nonetheless the overwhelming majority of the fellows listed below are simply hoping for someplace to play full-time subsequent 12 months. [Qualifying for the] PGA Tour looks like somewhat little bit of a bonus given it’s simply 5 and ties. And it’s going to be a pleasant reward, however I really feel like, for me, it nonetheless feels somewhat bit like Korn Ferry Tour Q-College.”

Of the 165 rivals who teed off on Thursday (six have already withdrawn), a number of of them have some type of conditional PGA Tour standing to fall again on whereas much more have already secured full KFT playing cards or not less than a handful of assured begins for the upcoming season. It’s a bizarre dynamic that’s portrayed by this quote from Danny Walker, who can not less than depend on the primary eight begins on the KFT subsequent season: “This week, I can simply play with nothing to lose.”

In Bryan’s case, the 2017 RBC Heritage champion has performed a lot of the previous few seasons utilizing a mixture of main medicals and previous champion standing, and he additionally has a KFT security blanket to fall again on, as he was a three-time winner on the circuit again in 2016.

However Bryan has no plans to play something apart from the PGA Tour subsequent 12 months.

“I’m extraordinarily content material taking part in the alternatives that I’ll get with my previous champion standing,” Bryan stated, “and if I play nice, then I’ll have a chance to play much more, and if I play poorly, then the chance for YouTube is at all times there. I get a sponsor’s invite each single week I need to movie. … Making an attempt to grind it out making tens of {dollars} on the Korn Ferry Tour, it simply doesn’t appear to be a path at this level in my life I feel I might take.”

Bryan made practically $300,000 for making 8 of 19 cuts on the PGA Tour final season. It’s an honest chunk of change for lower than mediocrity, which is why Q-College has a lot potential. If Bryan have been calling the pictures, he’d return ultimate stage to the stress cooker it as soon as was – six days, 108 holes, and not less than 25 PGA Tour playing cards handed out.

Requested if he have been commissioner for a day, Bryan stated, “Day 1, 100 individuals [from FedExCup] maintain their card and provides 25 again to Q-College. Possibly even 75 and 25, after which have smaller fields and fewer Tour gamers.”

“On the finish of the day,” Bryan expounded, “I feel there are 12 to fifteen guys that put a product on the course that generates income – me not being a kind of guys – so I feel there are a variety of guys like me, though they’ve earned the chance to play on the market, I simply don’t assume they’re doing something apart from costing the Tour cash, as dangerous as that sounds. It’s the mules, and I’ve been related. I’ve since pulled my title…”

Bryan, in fact, made current headlines for his title showing amongst virtually two dozen PGA Tour members – few of them Tour winners and about half exterior the highest 500 on the planet rankings – who, by way of a regulation agency, despatched a letter to the PGA Tour’s coverage board demanding to not be “saved at midnight” because the Tour alters its construction and negotiates with personal fairness companies and Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund.

“I feel a variety of bizarre issues have occurred within the sport of golf over the previous 12 months,” Bryan wrote on Twitter as soon as the memo was launched. “Additionally, I’m not assured in how issues have been dealt with by the group through which I ‘work for.’ Sorry to these through which are offended … form of.”

Bryan’s brother, George, shortly replied: “Come on Wes. Severely?! You’re higher than this and also you 100% are pulling your title off this terrible listing or it will turn out to be George Bryan Golf!!

Wesley Bryan then responded: “Title pulled. This was a mistake and I respect you and your steerage. Being completely severe, simply despatched electronic mail eradicating myself from this. My apologies.”

On Friday, Wesley Bryan defined the place his head was at relating to the present state and way forward for the PGA Tour.

“This 12 months has been somewhat little bit of a catastrophe,” he stated. “The entire thing has been dealt with actually poorly from all sides. I really feel prefer it’s fractured the sport. It’s given us headlines all through the world of sport however for all of the incorrect causes. I’ll say it, I simply need to see one of the best gamers on the planet taking part in the identical golf course the identical week and battling it out towards one another. I don’t need to see half right here and half there. So, the faster we are able to get to a decision there, I might say that the overwhelming majority of fellows need to see it get again to what it was, identical manner that I need to see Q-College get again to what it was.

“However the gap is so deep, there’s going to be a lot you’re going to must dig out. … I’m positive Jay is making an attempt to determine it out, I feel he’s been making progress, however you may’t cease what they’re doing over there at LIV. It’s very clear at this level they’re going to get who they need to get and after they need to get them.

“I don’t envy Jay’s place.”