‘I got a little angry’

Lucas Glover is ending his eponymous show on Sirius/XM Radio’s PGA Tour Network, which he has hosted since 2023. The reason?

“I got a little angry,” Glover said Golfweek’s Adam Schupak. “It started out being fun and hilarious and then it turned into complaining about problems on tour. That’s not why I started doing it and not where I wanted it to go. It made for good fun, but I wanted it to be more fun. It didn’t feel like me, it wasn’t my personality coming out.”

Ahead of the show’s debut in late 2023, the six-time tournament winner and 2009 US Open champion said having his own show was something he’d wanted to do since his victory at Bethpage Black.

“Now, having experienced everything I have over the course of my career,” Glover said on the show’s promotional website, “I’m ready and looking forward to sharing many stories, lessons learned and opinions on our game.”

The hour-long The Lucas Glover Show was described as a forum where Glover would share a perspective you couldn’t get anywhere else, including stories from his career and his “unique perspective on today’s game.”

Glover delivered on that promise, offering unfiltered opinions on many topics over the past two years, ranging from criticism of the tournament’s internal structure, thoughts on course renovations, testing of tour equipment and whether or not LIV players should be welcomed back into the PGA Tour pool.

A popular segment of the show was called “Get Off My Lawn,” where Glover was free to broach whatever topic of the moment irked him.

“It started off fun and light. Inevitably, the whole show turned into that.” Glover told Schupak. “Three out of four segments would turn into me complaining about something on tour. I didn’t want it to be that way.”

Another mitigating factor? Glover was recently elected chairman of the Tour’s 16-member Players Advisory Council – a position he will serve for the next three years. Hosting a show with a reputation for touring critics may not sit well with his new responsibilities, but Glover said the decision to end the show, which he co-hosted with his longtime agent Mac Barnhardt, was his alone.

“I wasn’t asked not to,” he told Schupak.

While Sirius/XM’s roster of talent includes such household names in golf as Rocco Mediate, Annika Sorenstam, Johnson Wagner and Smylie Kaufman, Glover was the only host who also doubled as an active player, so his perspective will be missed by many fans of the series.

However, Glover says his current decision doesn’t have to be forever.

“I’ll probably do it again,” he said.