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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

Roberto Castro on the TGL and the Direction of the PGA Tour

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Former PGA Tour pro Roberto Castro joins the podcast to discuss the TGL, the indoor, tech-infused golf league featuring the likes of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy that will launch in January next year. Roberto has been helping the TGL design its gameplay, and he provides information and perspective on the league's genesis, format, and potential. Before digging into this topic, however, Roberto and Andy discuss Roberto's recent experiences playing with retro equipment. Toward the end of the episode, they talk about the direction of the PGA Tour in the "Framework Agreement" era.

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0:00.0

I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg

0:06.8

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0:11.8

I'm about ready to run off the golf course Welcome. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. I am Andy Johnson and we are

0:40.4

we're here. I was excited. I actually reached out to Roberto Castro last week and that was a day or a couple days before the

0:52.0

announcement and the Wired article that he was involved with the TGL.

0:56.4

I thought Roberto would bring a really interesting perspective on everything going on in golf and I also wanted to hear him and talk about

1:06.3

his foray into the persimmon retro golf club world that he's jumped into in the last couple months. So I was excited Roberto then

1:16.0

obviously being a part of the TGL a lot more stuff to talk about with that. He was instrumental in the formatting of the TGL

1:26.4

figuring out what format they'd play

1:28.9

when they kick things off in January.

1:32.3

So this new enterprise, this new golf league that will be much more, I think it'll be

1:39.3

innovative. It's still golf, which I think anything that is a golf league needs to to be golf

1:46.0

So it will bring some innovation. I'm particularly excited about the golf design aspects and potential for golf design.

1:54.6

I don't know how much they're going to get into that in year one, but assuming there are multiple

2:00.3

years of this venture, I think they could really do some neat stuff with the

2:05.2

golf design component of the the startup and I'm also really excited about the shot clock.

2:13.6

So that's something I think we all want in professional golf.

2:19.0

We want something that moves the pace of the game

2:22.3

along a little bit faster and maybe just maybe this

2:25.7

could be something that that really gets that going so without further ado here's

2:30.6

Roberto Castro on a myriad of subjects and thank you for his time.

2:36.0

Be sure to check out his podcast, the Course Record Show.

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