Hudson Swafford talks the potential path back to the PGA Tour for those leaving LIV Golf

Subpar

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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On this week's episode of GOLF's Subpar Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz are joined by 3-time PGA Tour winner Hudson Swafford for an exclusive interview. The former LIV Golf player talks his initial decision to join the rival league, what path he may have to rejoining the PGA Tour and what to expect when the contracts of LIV's biggest stars expire following the 2026 season.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to golf subpar with Colt Nost and Drew Stoltz.
0:13.4	The regular season on the PGA tour is in the books and Cam Young went out with a bang.
0:18.6	As we like to say here on subpar, he was zoned in, like our friends over at Zone Nicotine.
0:24.0	Sleys, this man put on a dominating performance.
0:26.9	One by six, at one point the lead on Sunday was up to nine.
0:30.7	This is a guy that has had seven runner-up finishes in his PGA tour career,
0:35.1	and finally crossed the finish line and I would say just absolutely just
0:40.1	gave the field a beat down. It was something special to watch. But what did you think of
0:44.4	Kim Young's performance out at the Wyndham Championship?
0:47.7	I wonder. Seven runner up finishes like you mentioned, 19 million in earnings, which I think is a record
0:52.1	before getting the first win on the PJ tour beat the shit out of everyone. And when you watch him, which I think is a record before getting the first win on the PJ
0:54.3	tour, beat the shit out of everyone. And when you watch him, like, I don't even look at the six. Like, he was up nine. The thing was dead and was over, over. And he kind of limped home. Wins by six. Could have won by the most on the PJ tour this year. But when you watch him play, especially like you did this past week where he was just on the entire week,
1:11.4	I look at him like, what, why hasn't this come out before? Like, I know he's at seven runner up finishes in. And a lot of those, he gets hate because like, oh, he can't close the door. If you go back and look at a lot of those, like somebody played awesome, like really, really good. And he didn't necessarily play terrible on a Sunday. But you watch him and you're like, I mean,
1:10.7	he rips it off the T800, well over 100. really, really good. And he didn't necessarily play terrible on a Sunday. But you watch him and you're
1:28.0	like, I mean, he rips it off the T's 800, well over 180 plus ball speed. He's sixth in strokes
1:35.0	gained putting this year. It's just like, man, like he, you know, it was a couple years ago.
1:39.4	We were predicting this guy to win all the time and it's taken a while. But now that he's there,
1:45.2	he's definitely injected himself into that, that Ryder Cup conversation. Don't know if you know this, Colt.
1:50.0	He's from New York, the Ryder Cup, also in New York this year. Yes, grew up at Sleepy Hollow.
1:57.0	What a fantastic place that is where his dad's the head pro there um yeah man it was it was special we've
2:01.9	been waiting on this to happen he's been on the president's cup team was left off the rider
2:06.7	cup team the last time and he was ninth in points he's up to 15th right now still got some work
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