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PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan shares how WHOOP helps keep golf safe during COVID-19

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan joins the WHOOP Podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about navigating the pandemic, optimal performance, and the PGA’s groundbreaking new partnership with WHOOP. Under Jay’s steady leadership, golf was the first pro sport to return from the coronavirus shutdown and paved the way for other sports leagues to get back to play. He details the bumps in the road, how WHOOP data helped keep golfers and staff safe as play resumed, and why he believes the last year h...

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0:00.0

What's up, folks? Welcome back to the WOOP podcast. I'm your host, Will Amit, founder and CEO of Woop,

0:10.5

and we are on a mission to unlock human performance. We've got a great guest this week,

0:16.0

someone I look up to the PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monaghan, and we'll get to him in half a second.

0:22.9

First of all, I'll remind you can use the code Will Ahmed to get 15% off a WOOP membership.

0:28.3

That's WILL-A-H-M-E-D.

0:31.2

Whoop membership comes with hardware and software and analytics, and it's designed to improve your health.

0:37.6

Also, before we get to Jay Monaghan, I want to give a shout out to Stuart Sink, who just won

0:42.7

the RBC tournament over the weekend.

0:45.3

Always good to see Woop members winning golf tournaments, and we got two in a row.

0:49.8

Hideki Matsuyama won last weekend, we got Stuart Sink this weekend.

0:53.5

So pretty good in the world of

0:54.7

golf, which is a great segue for Jay Monaghan. You know, Jay had an incredibly steady hand during what

1:02.8

was a chaotic year to be running a sports organization. The PJ tour was the first sports league to

1:09.4

come back and I think paved the way for others to return.

1:13.1

And a lot of it comes back to Jay's leadership.

1:16.4

The tour dealt with a number of positive COVID-19 tests shortly after returning to play.

1:21.6

There was the Nick Watney incident where Nick Watney tested positive for COVID-19 in large part because he discovered an

1:30.7

elevated respiratory rate on whoop. So that's something that Jay and I reflect on. Now,

1:35.7

Woop is the official fitness wearable of the PGA tour. Jay and I talk about how excited we are

1:41.1

for this partnership. It's really two parts. The first is to keep players healthy and performing at a high level.

1:48.1

And the second is to create whoop live together.

1:51.9

Whoop live is our ability to bring heart rate to replays and to live broadcast on the PGA

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