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Tour Junkies: PGA Tour Betting & DFS

New Barstool Golf Guy, Dan Rapaport on Golf Media + LIV & Barstool Vibes & More

Tour Junkies: PGA Tour Betting & DFS

The Tour Junkies

Sports, Golf

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Dan Rapaport has recently left his position at Golf Digest (Old Head Media) for a role on Barstool Foreplay's golf team. We chat about the transition, the new work environment, and the differences between Barstool Sports and capital "J" Journalism. Dan also shares unmentioned parts of his featured article about Morgan Hoffman's health ephiphany in Costa Rica. And finally, we discuss the PGA TOUR + LIV GOLF drama and the parallels of LIV GOLF and Barstool sports. There's still room for the September LIVE GOLF EVENT DETAILS & SIGN UP Please support the podcast further by doing a few things to spread the TJ Gospel: Join Goalby’s Nut Hut, our private DISCORD chat w/ > 400 golf loving, DFS & Betting fans. Join a limited, free Nut Hut on DISCORD Sign up for the “Heavy Petting” & “Chalk Bomb” emails for free that hit your inboxes every Tuesday & Wednesday. Get exclusive membership discounts at Fantasy National Golf Club by using this link. Leave an honest iTunes Review. DB & Pat love reading all of these. It improves the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up golf addicts. This is a fun interview with our buddy Dan Rappaport who just left golf digest just left old big J journalism media for bar stool to join the four play crowd.

0:19.0

And Dan's a cool guy has been covering golf for a while. He's a great journalist. We talked a little bit about kind of that transition.

0:26.0

We talked a little bit about the high moment to getting to bar stool. We talked about whether or not he's seen the big guy day.

0:32.0

We talked about his trip to Costa Rica when he stayed with Morgan Hoffman for a couple of days and the effect that it had on him.

0:39.0

And obviously we talked to Liv Golf, PGA Tourist Up, and kind of some similarities between what Liv is trying to do and what bar stool really did to disrupt media.

0:47.0

Liv is taking a page out of that book to do some things in professional golf.

0:52.0

Dan's a great dude. I think he'll enjoy this episode. And he's got nothing but, you know, he's not doing anything but he's rising. He's just rising up.

1:01.0

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1:08.0

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1:21.0

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1:27.0

You can sign up in the description of this podcast below or on tour junkies.com. All right, let's get to Dan Rappaport.

1:34.0

What's going on golf addicts, DB back here. I got a special guest on the show. You know, normally we stick to players and caddies and coaches on the show, but I thought we'd mix it up.

1:42.0

We've done some media people, media personalities before in the past.

1:46.0

But I want to bring in our boy Daniel Rappaport D rap, as he's known. Thanks for coming on the show.

1:53.0

Yeah, no, so to be here, thanks for having me. Listen, if people don't know, I mean, which I'm sure they do. I mean, you've got like a ton of ton more followers than we do.

1:59.0

You're a big guy in the golf world, golf digest, formerly also, I think sports illustrated.

2:06.0

And now with bar stool for play just recently, man, I saw the article. I read the article.

2:12.0

What looked at a bunch of the tweets. Very cool to see. So I want to get into that.

2:16.0

How actually I'll start off by saying, how's first week on the job? Are you at home or have you been able to go into the bar stool office yet?

2:22.0

Yeah, it's just there earlier today. I'm home now because we were talking about this. I'm getting ready to go to my bachelor party tomorrow.

2:27.0

So they were like, you know what? Go home, get mentally ready.

2:30.0

But no, I wanted a couple of times early this week, and I went in last week to sort of meet everybody.

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