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No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

1052: The State of Men's Pro Golf with Josh Carpenter

No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

As the Tour prepares for the 2025 Playoffs, Soly is joined by Josh Carpenter from the Sports Business Journal to review the business landscape of the professional game - Brian Rolapp’s arrival as CEO, key sponsorship agreements that will expire in the next two to three years, broadcast innovations, what’s behind the tour’s increase in TV ratings, the current state of LIV, future PGA Tour schedule possibilities and the USGA bidding rights. Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: ⁠⁠https://nolayingup.com/esf⁠⁠ Support our Sponsors: Rhoback FanDuel.com/nlu The Stack System If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up’s community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It’s a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Be the right club.

0:07.0

Be the right club today.

0:09.0

Yes.

0:10.0

That's better than most.

0:15.0

How about him?

0:18.0

That is better than most.

0:20.0

Better than most. Better than most.

0:26.8

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the No Laying Up podcast.

0:31.3

Sali here.

0:31.8

Got a conversation coming up shortly with Josh Carpenter from the Sports Business Journal.

0:36.0

Hopefully you guys are following him on Twitter, Josh A. Carpenter. Ever since he got on the golf beat, man, that guy has been breaking news and just is really interwoven into the fabric of the PGA tour and what's going on with sponsors and all kinds of behind-the-scenes stuff. And I just picked his brain for about an hour and a half on all things going on, calling this one, the state of men's golf with Josh Carpenter, who you will see very quickly is very well informed and gets us up to speed on a lot of things that we've kind of put on the back burner for a long time talking about because not a lot's been going on. But we check in a lot of these things. I want to give a shout to our friends at Roeback. You know them. our go-to for polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, pants, fit, all of it. Best fit, best feel, simple as that. It is peak summer. It is time for their best print polos, easily one of our favorite parts of Roebuck. The creativity behind the designs. There's always a story behind the design. They make it relatable, easy to to wear the details are dialed the delta

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1:46.4

Josh Carpenter. All right, Josh, you got your ear to the street as well as anyone in the game right now as we're kind of edging towards the end of the men's pro golf season. I just start, we'll start broad. We're going to get nitpicky. You track schedules, you track commercials commercials you track all the stuff and people have

2:18.2

heard our takes on all this stuff we needed to bring in an outside voice for some answers to

2:22.3

some questions what's the biggest story right now in men's golf at the moment i think chris it has

2:27.0

i think it has to be roll up and just like how he approaches things i mean there are 10 different

2:32.8

answers you could probably give right now. Like,

2:34.7

you could go live. You could go, you know, I don't think it's live anymore. I, I still think everything,

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