952: USGA CEO Mike Whan on US Open's LIV exemption, recent rollback comments, pace of play, and future USGA venues

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🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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USGA CEO Mike Whan makes his return to the pod on the heels of today's announcement about a LIV exemption into the field for the 2025 US Open. We start our discussion on recent comments from various stakeholders in pro golf around the golf ball rollback before getting into pace of play issues, the LIV - US Open announcement and the USGA's rationale for creating the exemption. We close with some thoughts on current and upcoming venues for USGA championships - including Cypress Point for this year's edition of the Walker Cup. Support our sponsors: Rhoback fanduel.com/nlu The Stack Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast 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 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.
0:31.5	Sali here, got an interview coming shortly with my guy DJ, as well as Mike
0:35.3	Juan, the CEO of the USGA, talking a little bit of distance update stuff.
0:39.9	Obviously, some news came out today regarding an exemption from the Liv Tour into the US Open.
0:45.3	We talked to him about the rationale behind that.
0:47.7	A whole bunch of other stuff.
0:48.8	My guy can definitely fill up the airwaves, but he was very, very gracious with his time.
0:52.8	We appreciate that.
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1:13.6	They also released a Fulton hybrid jacket.
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