Strategic Moves for the PGA Tour's Financial Future

SportsGrid

Watch Strategic Moves for the PGA Tour's Financial Future - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00As tough of a pill as it might be to swallow, if we let these guys come back and we create

00:09some structure for them to come back, we could gut the live tour because all those guys have

00:14made all their money and so they can go fill up their bank accounts and feel like I don't

00:18need to do the security thing anymore.

00:20Now I want to play real competitive golf again at the best venues in the world with the against

00:24the best players in the world.

00:26And I come back on this tour and, you know, and now I have no penalties.

00:30So there's, it's not like there's any barriers coming back off to go play the corn fairy

00:33tour or whatever.

00:34I think that would be the, the most, the smartest strategic business move from the PGA tour

00:39instead of saying, if you guys want to come back, there are penalties involved, you know,

00:43because then, then you're just, you're, you're hurting yourself.

00:46You're hurting your ability to, to hurt your competitor, you know, I want to be a part

00:49of the list making of like who gets like, who's the last guy that doesn't get like the

00:55full exemptions into, let's say the players or whatever the, the mark or just say the

01:01signature events, um, like does, does the tour make Taylor go qualify and go, that would

01:10be, that would be amazing.

01:13I mean, even with the, like you named the 10 guys on the, on the top of their points

01:19and excuse me, career money, it's like, dude, like pretty much all of that top 10, maybe

01:25give or take another couple of guys.

01:26It's like, those are your dudes.

01:28Bring them back.

01:29Let them play.

01:30Let's, let's get those guys back on the, uh, signature events and then like funnel in kind

01:34of whoever you want throughout the, uh, the, the lower tour, which is what I hope would

01:40happen.

01:41Yeah.

01:42And, and honestly, as you say that, like, that's exactly, if you took the money list

01:46right now, so DJ Gooch cam Brandon grace, like you, you knew there were going to be

01:52certain names in there that are like, Oh, that's a, that's a weird one.

01:55Or like that, the most marketable one, but they played well and they deserve it.

01:57So like Brandon grace probably is one of those Brooks Kepka, Peter Uline, probably one of

02:01those Bryson, Patrick Reed, Joaquin Neiman, Sergio Garcia.

02:05There's your top 10.

02:06Right.

02:07And then you probably go through and you cherry pick a few names who just showed up.

02:10So they haven't had time to earn, but obviously, obviously you're letting John Rahm come back.

02:14Yeah.

02:15You know, um, I'm sure, I mean, Phil would actually be a really interesting case, you

02:19know, given all of these done to burn bridges.

02:22But you know, Tyrell Hatton probably gets to come back in some form or fashion.

02:25Um, you know, maybe there are pathways created for young stars that you want to kind of do

02:31right by like Caleb Surat or guys like that.

02:33But I think that, you know, that's, that's, I mean, I just gave you, I mean, let's exclude

02:38Caleb Surat.

02:39I just gave you 12 names and you're really not missing too many from that list.

02:44You're definitely making some cuts, but like, you're not missing too many, man.

02:48It's just like so crazy.

02:49So let's say the PGA tour says we're going to go another year without you guys coming

02:53back and what's going to happen.

02:56There's going to be so much pressure.

02:58And I think the live strategy from that standpoint is okay.

03:02They've stopped working hand in hand with the official world golf ranking to try to

03:05get their tour sanctioned to be able to get points.

03:09We read about it this week as well.

03:11So like, what are the only things they can do?

03:13It's like, okay, well we can just buy more players.

03:16That's the one thing that they can do is they can buy more players.

03:20And then the other part of it too, is that I think unless the PGA tour changes to a structure

03:27in which there's less events and their, their weeder boards make sense, they can wait on

03:32just the, just wait out the ratings because the ratings have been the one thing that the

03:38live golf tour can look at and be like, all right, you need us.

Category

Transcript

Recommended