Geoff Shackelford talks Premier Golf League and USGA's 'Distance Insights' (2/6)

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🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Geoff Shackelford of geoffshackelford.com and Golf Channel joins The First Cut to discuss his reporting on the emergence of the Premier Golf League (2:08). What impact would that have on the PGA Tour along with whether or not PGA Tour players are actually paid fairly. What are the motivations behind this upstart? Who are the big stars that might join? Kyle and Geoff also chat about the USGA and R&A's recently released report from the 'Distance Insights' project and what its findings reveal about the game's future (23:50). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.2	My name is Kyle Porter.
0:44.2	Got a chance to talk to Jeff Shackleford today.
0:47.2	He is a perfect person to talk to you right now with everything that's going on in the world of golf, the Premier Golf League,
0:55.7	the distance report that came out this week from the USGA and RNA, and he's kind of at the
1:02.2	epicenter of all of it in terms of his background in course architecture. He'd done a lot of
1:09.2	reporting on the PGL, the Premier Golf League, and done a
1:13.2	great job with it with all the information.
1:15.5	There's a ton of information that's out there.
1:17.2	There's a ton of it's hard to connect all the dots.
1:21.4	And you guys should check out his stuff on Jeff Shackleford.com because I think he does a great
1:26.6	job of connecting, you know, why does this
1:29.3	matter for Tiger? Who's involved? How's this going to go? Who are all the players? How does this
1:34.5	affect the PGA tour? How does it affect media? Where's the money coming from? He addresses all those
1:41.6	different things. And we talked about some of them today, just some kind of
1:45.3	lingering questions that I had, wanted him to explain some of the stuff that was going on to
1:50.0	people who maybe hadn't heard of the PGL or what's kind of taking place right now. So a really
1:56.1	interesting conversation. Jeff is a great guy to talk to you. He's one of my favorite people
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