296 - Mike Whan

No Laying Up - Golf Podcast

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Sports, Golf

4.7 • 7.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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LPGA Tour Commissioner Mike Whan joins the podcast to talk about the decision making process that lead to the LPGA Tour season being postponed, how his team gathered information, the considerations, what it's like to try to reschedule an LPGA Tour event, and how he sees this playing out. He discusses what golf might look like when it comes back, the possibilities of "2 for 1" events, the conversations he's had with sponsors, and a ton more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Be the right club today.
0:07.0	Right club today.
0:10.0	Yeah.
0:11.0	That's better than most.
0:15.0	How about in?
0:18.0	That is better than most.
0:20.0	Better than most. The most.
0:24.0	Expect anything different.
0:29.0	All right guys, I am especially excited about today's episode with the
0:33.0	Commissioner of the LPGA tour Mike Wan comes on answers every
0:37.2	question we could possibly have about the cancellation of LPGA golf, golf in
0:42.2	general, sports in general,
0:42.8	sports in general, can't wait for you guys to get to it.
0:45.7	As you guys know, we appreciate the women's game.
0:48.2	Maybe, I would say maybe more than the average golfer does.
0:50.7	We don't, I would love to support it more than we do. We do our
0:53.1	absolute best to support the game. But if you are like us and if you watch it on
0:57.1	TV you've no doubt seen a lot of Callaway logos during coverage. Callaway also is
1:02.0	proud to support the LPGA feels a huge
1:04.5	staff of up-and-comers like bomber and Van Dam if you haven't seen that golf
1:08.6	swing yet you are completely missing out. The gritty Madeline Sag Saggstrom, always effusive, Emma Tally, as well as Stanford standout, Andrea Lee.
1:18.0	So in addition to the product that they have in the hands of their staffers, Calloway typically has about twice as many drivers in play
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