Geoff Ogilvy talks his strategy for the 2026 Presidents Cup at Medinah, playing there with Tiger and Phil, and his favorite course designs
Subpar
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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On this week's episode GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz are joined by eight-time PGA Tour winner Geoff Ogilvy. The 2026 International Team Captain talks his plans for this year's Presidents Cup, if working on the redesign of Medinah gives him a strategic advantage and his favorite courses from an architectural perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back to Subpar with Colton Nost and Drew Stoltson. |
| 0:14.2 | Slees, it was a hell of the week, but I'm going to be honest. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm not too sad that it's over. |
| 0:18.2 | The WM. Phoenix Open was incredible, but rather exhausting at the same time. I spent a long time looking forward to it each year. Then as soon as it ends, I'm like, we have a whole other year until that happens again. I mean, it's one of one. It's the best week of the year. But as you can tell from our voices, and we gave ourselves an extra day to recover this year. |
| 0:38.0 | It's a big week, dude. |
| 0:39.9 | But what a hell of a week, and we got a hell of a champion at the end and another great finish like we tend to. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, I mean, the week got started off with our friends over at Zone, had an awesome party down at Whiskey Row. |
| 0:50.5 | Pat Perez, Michael Turner joined us. |
| 0:53.7 | Really cool to be down there with those guys. That Michael Turner, he's funny. I like that guy. He could go. He could definitely go. We might need to get him back in here and do a little longer chat with him. But he was fun. Pat Perez, good to see Patty again, you know, kind of rip the Band-Aid off. We're coming, you know, coming back to the PJ Tour. |
| 1:11.7 | It'll be awesome to see him in some major championships as well. And, I mean, the man looks good, don't he? Yeah, he's been in the gym, working hard on the game. I can't wait to see him out there on PJ Tour Champions. But like you said, got three major championships ahead of him this year. and then we'll see him out there in 2027. |
| 1:27.9 | Before we get to the WM Phoenix Open, let's get zoned in with our friends over at zone nicotine. |
| 1:34.2 | And this was long overdue, in my opinion, but such a cool moment because I don't believe he had any clue it was coming, but you're a Thunderbird. |
| 1:43.2 | And now we have a new honorary Thunderbird. |
| 1:46.2 | The great Gary McCord was brought in on Sunday of the Dunby of Phoenix Open, and I know you |
| 1:51.6 | were there, and I heard it was just an unbelievable moment. |
| 1:53.8 | Yeah, it was a really cool moment. |
| 1:55.0 | Like, typically, it's not every year, but the outgoing, you know, guy who was the tournament chairman |
| 1:59.3 | last year, you can nominate |
| 2:01.5 | honorary Thunderbird. And this year, it was Gary McCord. He had no idea of it. But every Sunday, |
| 2:07.3 | before you guys go on the coverage, Jim Nance comes in and talks. And this time, he brought Gary. |
| 2:12.4 | And Gary had no idea what was going on. By the way, it took some real serious arm twisting to get him there. As you know, a guy who spent his whole life in golf. He's not racing down to attend the Phoenix Open anytime soon. So he got there and they started launching into it. Hey, we have a big special announcement. You know, this guy played over 400 events on the PJ Tour. He's a Southern California Hall of Famer. And like at that moment, I'm staring at McCord the whole time. Like all of a sudden, he's like, holy shit, this is going to be me. And he had no idea. And he and Nance got up there and kind of relived some old memories. We gave him the tunic and the necklace and all that stuff. And I tell you, like, you know him extremely well, too. He's not a guy. A, he hates |
| 2:51.3 | recognition. He hates getting, like, credit for much. But he, and he never gets emotional. But at this thing, there was a moment where I was like, he's about to cry. He's going to cry. And he didn't, but he got in. And it was a really, really cool moment. And cool for Jim to be there, too, you know, to relive some of their |
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