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

There’s a whole lot of uncertainty in the way forward for professional golf, and it’s been a riveting and complicated recreation of musical chairs in the case of 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, also stepped down. After which there’s that new transaction sub-committee inside PGA Tour Enterprises. Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are on that.

Confused? Try 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 in opposition to Boston. You’re taking that, there’s battle. Effectively, we’ve battle now, it’s inbuilt, and it’s LIV. And it’s over there, and so they have among the finest gamers on the earth over there and so they aren’t enjoying over right here a lot.”

McCord stated the Saudi PIF ought to take into account 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. That may assist the World Rating factors concern, he stated, after which he’d have the highest 75 gamers or so total play all over the world 5 to eight instances a 12 months. He’d name it the “Galaxy World Tour.”

Kostis’ concept was much more artistic. He stated they need to determine methods to 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 alter 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 instances a 12 months, plus the majors, there’s your 16 occasions, the place the most effective gamers are enjoying in opposition to one another, and you bought folks rooting. Some rooting for and a few in opposition to, however you bought folks rooting.”

You may watch the whole episode under, during which Kostis and McCord additionally break down the way forward for golf broadcasting and extra.

Josh Berhow

Golf.com Editor

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