Major winner has idea to shake up PGA Tour events

One of golf’s top competitors has an idea for the PGA Tour.

Competition.

Speaking of the latest episode of GOLF’s “Subpar” podcast, Geoff Ogilvy said he knows change is coming to the Tour. There have been suggestions as to what it could be. Maybe a later start to the season. Maybe less events.

And here’s what the 2006 US Open winner thought:

Tournament in the pit against each other. Competition, as they say, brings success.

“I’d like to see tournaments compete against other tournaments to be better,” Ogilvy said on “Subpar.” “I would like to see American Express try to be better than Torrey and Torrey strive to be better than Phoenix AND LA try to be better than phoenix. If you have a situation where tournaments are competing, I mean, the players will win, everyone will benefit.

“When you just say, you guys are going to be the big ones and you guys are going to be the little ones, I don’t know. I’d rather watch— Master it’s Masters because they’ve been doing amazing work for 100 years. Phoenix is ​​a great tournament because it’s an incredible organization that has a lot of people who have put a lot of time and a lot of effort into making this happen – it’s not just a tournament, it’s just an event, and it’s just a massive event. And if you had to make that kind of effort to be somehow better than all the other tournaments, then they’d all be competing against each other, and then they’d all be fighting to be special.

“There’s always going to be special events. People want to come to Phoenix because it’s an amazing atmosphere. The Memorial is a great event because it’s a great course and you’re treated so well and you feel special, don’t you? But they’ve done a great job of making it feel special. I think you’ve got some competition in the tournament and they’re all going to try to beat each other.”

Ogilvy then went further.

It would be interesting, he said, to see tournaments compete for broadcast rights.

“I don’t know if it’s that much,” Ogilvy said, “but if you had to be better than last week and next week because Amazon or Netflix or CBS or whoever it is, we want that tournament because that tournament is always great on TV, well, next week they’re going to have to improve their product, they’re going to have to get better because they’re going to want to be the players like the competition. compete to be better than last week and next week.

“Again, I’m way out of my lane and I don’t understand how all this stuff works. But the competition is good and I think we’ve been chasing this sugar hit if you don’t have a field, you don’t have a tournament. And we’ve just effectively bought fields with money and I don’t think the money is as exciting as the prestige and the history.”

Editor’s Note: To watch the entire episode with Ogilvy, please click here or scroll immediately below.

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