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🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Mr. Green, for example, I'm already upset, when I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. |
0:05.0 | And when I find my ball in a bright egg. |
0:07.0 | Bright egg. |
0:08.0 | The dreaded bright egg. |
0:09.0 | Bright egg. |
0:10.0 | Bright egg. |
0:11.0 | Bright egg. |
0:12.0 | Bright egg lie. |
0:13.0 | I'm about ready to run off the golf course. |
0:30.0 | Welcome to the Friday podcast. |
0:37.0 | I'm Garrett Morrison. |
0:38.0 | And today we are digging into the debates around the official world golf ranking. |
0:42.0 | The OWGR, which is the dominant global ranking system in men's professional golf, has somewhat surprisingly become a lightning rod for controversy this year. |
0:52.0 | There are two main reasons for that. |
0:54.0 | One a few months ago, the OWGR introduced a new formula that critics say will do major damage to any tour not named the PGA tour. |
1:04.0 | And two, the upstart league live golf has not yet been approved by the OWGR and probably won't be anytime soon. |
1:12.0 | Live is desperate to change this because world ranking points are an important way that players qualify for the four majors. |
1:19.0 | And lives advocates have pointed out that the OWGR is governed by a board that includes PGA tour commissioner J. Monahan and others invested in golf's status quo. |
1:29.0 | So it's a big conspiracy. |
1:31.0 | Except not really. |
1:32.0 | It's more complicated than that. |
1:33.0 | And to sort it all out, I'm talking to Joseph LaManya. |
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