How would Sean Zak fix the PGA Championship? Make it a gauntlet. #golf #pgachampionship #major

How would I fix the PGA championship? By changing it back to what it once was, an absolute gauntlet. I present this cup to you with my heartiest congratulations. The PGA is widely considered the fourth most prestigious of the majors right now. The Masters is springtime, Augusta National, the Green Jacket. The US Open is open to all if you can handle it on the toughest golf courses in America. The Open championship is Lynx golf. It's wind, it's rain, it's the birthplace of the sport. The PGA this year is just going to a PGA Tour host course that we see every single season. So how do we inject some identity into this tournament? This was a brutal event back in the day, often asking its champion to play well over a hundred holes from start to finish. In order to win the PGA in the 40s and 50s, you had to be a survivor. That was until 1957 when the event organizers saw that it lost $9,000 one year and they scrapped the format. But what if we brought it back? That's right. Wednesday and Thursday, first two rounds, 36 holes of stroke play. You get a 36 hole cut like you see everywhere, but you trim the field from 132 down to just 32. Friday would trim it from 32 to 16 via match play, just like this tournament used to be when Sam Snead and Ben Hogan were winning it. With two matches on Saturday, going from the sweet 16 down to the final four. And then two matches on Sunday to go from the final four to an actual champion. Players would moan, they would say, we're not used to match play or this is more golf than I'm used to. But isn't that the point of major championships? To bring your game to battle against some test that you're not used to week in and week out. The champion would have to get through the masses of stroke play. Then they'd have to get through Brooks Koepka in the first round of match play, and then they'd have to play probably Justin Thomas or a red hot Xander Shoffley just to get to the final four. And then to finish second would be absolutely soul crushing. But the person who actually did it, who actually won, we would treat them like a gladiator. So in the words of Maximus Meridius, are you not entertained by this idea even a little?