Originally Posted by rodney_c

I think the lower quality field makes it easier to win this tournament.
But Michelle isn't realistically going to win it, so I don't think that affects her.

As regards making the cut, I don't think it will be significantly easier to make the cut, just because the field is weaker.

If there were big names in the field, would the cut line be much if any different? It's not like if there were a few big names the cut line would be -2, and without them it would go to +2. It doesn't work that way.