What does the way forward for professional golf appear like? Listed here are 2 artistic concepts

There’s lots of uncertainty in the way forward for professional golf, and it’s been a riveting and complicated recreation of musical chairs relating to the PGA Tour Coverage Board.

Rory McIlroy left, then tried to rejoin and take Webb Simpson’s spot, however that was nixed. Jimmy Dunne resigned in Could, saying no significant progress had been made towards a deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi PIF.

Mark Flaherty, an unbiased director, additionally stepped down. After which there’s that new transaction sub-committee inside PGA Tour Enterprises. Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are on that.

Confused? You ought to be. Within the newest episode of Peter Kostis and Gary McCord’s Off Their Rockers podcast, a GOLF manufacturing, the veteran TV analysts dissected all of it and appeared into their crystal balls to dish on what they assume the way forward for professional golf ought to appear like.

“In tv and sports activities, you bought to take the animosity and use it,” McCord stated. “It’s the Lakers towards Boston. You’re taking that, there’s battle. Effectively, we have now battle now, it’s in-built, and it’s LIV. And it’s over there, and so they have a number of the greatest gamers on the planet over there and so they aren’t enjoying over right here a lot.”

McCord stated the Saudi PIF ought to think about shopping for the DP World Tour, because it’s primarily a “feeder tour” for the PGA Tour now anyway with its prime gamers incomes PGA Tour membership. Which may assist the World Rating factors subject, he stated, after which he’d have the highest 75 gamers or so total play around the globe 5 to eight occasions a 12 months. He’d name it the “Galaxy World Tour.”

Kostis’ concept was much more artistic. He stated they need to determine how one can mix the DP World Tour and Asian Tour with LIV Golf gamers. Then flip LIV right into a World Senior Tour.

“Take the worldwide senior tour gamers, as a result of the Champions Tour here’s a snoozefest,” Kostis stated. “So that you let LIV morph into that. And you modify the format that they’re presently utilizing, go to 72 holes, that’s what everyone needs, have Signature Occasions on the DP World Tour such as you do on the U.S. tour, let the gamers that signed [with LIV] go play these occasions. Then take a quantity, prime 50 from every tour? Put them collectively 10-12 occasions a 12 months, plus the majors, there’s your 16 occasions, the place the most effective gamers are enjoying towards one another, and you bought individuals rooting. Some rooting for and a few towards, however you bought individuals rooting.”

You’ll be able to watch the whole episode under, wherein Kostis and McCord additionally break down the way forward for golf broadcasting and extra.

Josh Berhow

Golf.com Editor

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