Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme Debate PGA Tour Changes

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00:00So I just have a selection of quotes to read you here from several players on tour, former

00:09players on tour.

00:11So this is Justin Lauer, is actually a really emotional interview on Saturday, holding a

00:15share of the lead at the Worldwide Technology Championship, and kind of starts about how

00:21much a win would mean to him.

00:22But then in the back half of the response says, I hate all the changes they're making.

00:26That's a whole nother subject I could rant about for like an hour.

00:29Seems like anytime I do something good, they make a change, but yeah, it just means a lot

00:33to me.

00:34I just want to see how good I can do and prove to myself that I can actually do something

00:37in this game.

00:38Padraig Harrington, a friend of the show, Wednesday on Golf Today, was asked about it.

00:43He says, it's terrible.

00:44It really is.

00:45I can't think of how bad it is.

00:46At the end of the day, the people who are on the inside are voting to keep the thing

00:50tighter and more closed.

00:51Sure.

00:52Why don't we have 12 people involved if I'm included and everyone else can go home?

00:55The tour is running just fine.

00:56I know there is certain pressure on time to get fields finished when they go to 156 during

01:00certain times of year, but players will deal with that.

01:03This is one way to solve one of the biggest issues in golf pace of play, but you want

01:07to give everyone the opportunity.

01:09And then finally, Lucas Glover, I thought the proposed plan was as nine.

01:12Like most of our recent changes, limiting players doesn't help competition.

01:16We're the only sport that decreased the number of teams or players.

01:19Every other sport has expanded their playoffs or expanded their fields.

01:22We're doing the opposite.

01:24The tour's job description is to do what's right for the membership, not a few members.

01:31Your thoughts on that collection of quotes with regard to the proposed changes that we

01:34discussed and I think generally, we seem to like them.

01:38Well, yeah, we've debated it and I think we do like them.

01:46That's what's difficult about the PGA Tour, right?

01:48You got all these individual guys with a lot of opinions, 200 to 225 members you're

01:55trying to appease with fields that are tightening and a different world that we're in now in

02:05the professional golf landscape.

02:06So you have to imagine there are a lot of people that feel that way.

02:13From our perspective, as somebody that played the game professionally, was on the tour in

02:19media now, can see both sides of it.

02:23I for one, if I was still playing, would be 100% in the boat of I want every opportunity

02:29to play.

02:30Now, where I sit now, I don't really see it that way.

02:35So it's weird.

02:37If you go ask me, if I just got done after shooting 66 out of Estavia and I'm like, you

02:43know, maybe I could play again and you say, hey, hey, SK, what do you think about should

02:47there be a hundred?

02:48You should be extra 12 guys at every event.

02:51It's like, oh, you know, maybe, but that's it's such a fine line.

02:58And one of the main reasons they talked about was not being able to finish on Thursdays

03:05and Fridays.

03:06I don't think that's the end of the world.

03:08Right?

03:09I think guys don't, they just want to play.

03:12I don't, I don't think they really care about finishing that next morning.

03:15Sure.

03:16They would love to be first off and I have to go and finish in the mornings, but it doesn't

03:20take away from the tournament finishing on Sunday.

03:23So when it comes to like daylight, I get that you can use that as an excuse, but I think

03:30the players that are in the court area or wherever will be like, we don't care.

03:35Just give us a tea time.

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