The Presidents Cup: Past, Present, and Future

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Team golf is back this week with the Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow. To celebrate, Garrett and Andy take a walk down memory lane and examine the history of the event. From the split between the PGA of America and what would become the PGA Tour to the failure of other team competitions, the series of events that led to the Presidents Cup's creation is a fascinating study. The second half of the episode is dedicated to the present state and potential future of the tournament. Garrett and Andy go over what ails the event, the distractions surrounding this year's edition, and their own proposals to breathe some life into the Presidents Cup. Notes: The World Series of Golf-like tournament that Garrett and Andy discuss was called the PGA Grand Slam of Golf, and it ran from 1979 to 2014. Garrett's account of the origins of the Presidents Cup draws extensively from Adam Schupak's book Deane Beman: Golf's Driving Force.

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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. I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome to the bright egg podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison. And today we're talking about the past, present, and future of the president's cup.
0:42.0	So the 2022 president's cup starts at quail hollow today with the US team facing off against the international squad.
0:49.0	And it sort of feels like this is a fork in the road for this team match play event overall.
0:56.0	The defections to live golf have weakened both teams really, but especially the international side.
1:02.0	And the fear is that the president's cup will become even less competitive, even more lopsided than it has been historically.
1:10.0	So we figured it was a good time to talk about where this event came from, what it is now, and whether it's ultimately worth fighting for.
1:18.0	To discuss all of that, I'm joined by Andy Johnson. Andy, how's it going?
1:22.0	Garrett, it's going great. I'm excited to dig into the president's cup.
1:27.0	I made a, I made a proclamation on the shock and start a maybe last year that I thought that one of my, you know, takes was that the president's cup would overtake the rider cup in terms of competitiveness over the next 30 years.
1:43.0	Then live came and pretty much snatched away all of us great players and here we are at really, I think you put it correctly across roads because, you know, with the international flavor of the live tour that they've created and poached, you know, a lot of the big name your international players.
2:04.0	This event really has been, has been weakened and I feel bad for it because I think, you know, we're going to get into the history of this event.
2:15.0	But I think one of the things is that it got off to a little bit of a slow start because it didn't have a real imaginative creation.
2:22.0	It was really kind of a copy of the rider cup, but it was showing promise, especially, you know, I think one of the recent high high water moments for it was obviously royal Melbourne, where it was a very competitive match between, you know, teams and you could start to see this young talent that the international side had.
2:43.0	And if you look at the world rankings, if the international's were able to, you know, have the players that should be available to him.
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