Connor Stirling Peterson breaks down AJGA Rolex points: higher-level tournaments award more points because they draw stronger competition, but those points only help if you can beat that field. For most players, standard AJGA events are more efficient.
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now it's not necessarily a game of, hey, let me go play in the tournament that's worth a whole bunch of points. Um, because you know, that tournament's worth more than the regular AJGA Open because the tournament is worth more points because the fields are better. And so it only really works out for you if you're the best player in the best field. If you're just gonna play the same, then it doesn't really matter. But imagine like if you were Let's say you're the best player in the country. Well, then if you just go beat up and, you know, a standard AJGA field and earn your 40 points, that's not as good as if you could go beat up a real AJGA field and get your 120 points. So it only really works for you if you're at the elite level, which again, this is why you guys kind of want to work through this as, as a hierarchy.