Kent and Scottie are joined by two LPGA Tour players, Mina Kreiter and Jennifer Chang, for a special edition on the priority list: the ranking that decides who gets into which tournaments. Mina, on tour since 2010, has played from both full and limited status; Jennifer, on tour since 2020, has split her seasons between the LPGA and the Epson Tour. They explain why a February start versus a May start can shape a whole year, what the reshuffle feels like when every start counts, what fans get wrong about limited fields like the Asia swing, and what a season of last-minute travel really costs. Scottie argues that players 81 to 100 on the CME list should rank ahead of the Epson Tour's top 10; Mina's hot take is that those Epson cards should face the reshuffle. Plus: the darkest moments of limited status, sponsors and social media, what they'd tell their rookie selves, and the time Scottie, on his first bag for Jennifer, drove on the wrong side of the road.
CHAPTERS (runtime 56:46)
0:00 Cold open — "Just keep it to myself"
0:43 Welcome — Scottie's off to Asia; meet Mina Kreiter and Jennifer Chang
2:21 Full status vs. conditional: why February vs. May changes everything
3:36 Reshuffle pressure — the ShopRite finish that changed Jennifer's year
4:21 Mina on both sides of the list, and her new job as a club fitter
6:05 Does the system find the best players, or reward access?
7:36 Kent's numbers: ~20 spots turn over a year, and the no-cut Asia swing
10:06 Where should "full status" really start?
13:24 "Why aren't you in Thailand?" — what fans get wrong
14:57 Deep fields and late calls: getting in the week before
17:18 The money: last-minute travel and what a season costs
19:31 What CME points are actually worth
20:55 Epson Tour cards: playing for status, not purses
23:34 Can you get better on a limited schedule?
25:53 The darkest moments: "a constant flow of what-ifs"
27:20 Fixing the plane while flying it
28:50 Sponsors, social media, and the LPGA marketing question
32:12 If you could change one thing about the priority list
35:37 Scottie's take: 81–100 ahead of the Epson top 10
36:53 Mina's hot take: make the Epson top 10 face the reshuffle
39:36 How a priority-list change actually happens
41:00 The PGA TOUR comparison
42:13 Retention, and why the top 80 is "sticky"
43:42 Move the reshuffle? Put the Asia swing at the end?
46:32 Next year's schedule: five events to play your way into the Chevron
48:14 How do you explain this pressure to friends and family?
49:33 Scottie's first bag: Jennifer, the Scottish and the British
51:21 What they'd tell their rookie selves
53:33 Eight Asia events, no cuts: "Guaranteed money too"
55:31 Scottie's first time on the wrong side of the road
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