Rory Leaves the Policy Board
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 489 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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In today's episode of the Hack it Out Golf podcast, Mark, Lou, and Greg discuss Rory's recent resignation from the PGA Tour policy board. Greg gives a Tour player's perspective of how the player boards work—and don't work. And they consider what this might mean for the Tour and for Rory going forward.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Hack It Out Golf Podcast. We're going to talk about Rory McElroy resigning from the board on the PGA. |
| 0:08.4 | I mean, to be fair, well, I'm glad Greg is here and Lou, obviously, but Greg can tell us all. |
| 0:14.4 | What has Rory actually resigned from Greg? |
| 0:18.3 | Yeah, so it's the PGA tool policy board. Now, what we have is, and I've got to double check on how I phrase this, |
| 0:26.5 | well, we have a Player Association Committee, |
| 0:28.9 | which is a group of 16 members across all membership. So you'll have the Rory's and the Greg Chalmers of the world all meeting |
| 0:40.6 | occasionally. |
| 0:41.6 | God. |
| 0:42.7 | Like meeting of the five families. |
| 0:44.6 | That must be a hell of a meeting. |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.5 | All your people stood around you as you sit in a table talking and they're all sat around like, you know, |
| 0:55.4 | with their wedges in their pockets just in case it kicks off. And this is going to be hard to believe, Mark, but I've never been voted on. What? I'm definitely not. I know. I know. I'm not running a very good program. I don't know what they're doing. But anyway, so there's 16 of these people and what they do, |
| 1:12.4 | and that's called the PAC, the Player Association Committee. |
| 1:15.1 | Okay. |
| 1:15.7 | And player advisory council, sorry, player advisory council. |
| 1:19.1 | We'll get that right. |
| 1:20.3 | So, and then what they do is they make recommendations to the policy board. |
| 1:24.9 | And then that is also then going on to the actual board. And there's four |
| 1:28.8 | PGA tour players typically on the board. And they have, they elect someone to sort of be the head |
| 1:36.7 | of that. But there's also five other non-PGA tour players. So they're actually outvoted if they |
| 1:43.4 | choose to be, if they go in different |
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