The State of the DP World Tour
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Professional men's golf continues to remain in flux. There was a time when the European Tour was a near peer if not a full peer of the PGA Tour. That is no longer the case; indeed, the current arrangement has the DP World Tour sending its best players each year to the PGA Tour. Has the DP World made poor decisions? In today's episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about the past, present, and future of the DP World Tour.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk DP World Tour guys. |
| 0:02.6 | We don't talk enough about the DP World Tour anymore. |
| 0:05.2 | Greg Chalmers, Lou Stagner in-house. |
| 0:07.0 | Obviously, Greg Chalmers was a member of the European Tour, which would have been a DP World Tour if it was now. |
| 0:13.0 | And I just want to ask a question, did they get it all wrong, really? |
| 0:16.4 | There's been talks about live players being able to play again on the DP World Tour. |
| 0:21.4 | Obviously, the DP World Tour did kind of align with the PGA Tour, which arguably was a |
| 0:26.8 | great decision too or not. |
| 0:29.0 | Did the DP World Tour get it all wrong when it came to live? |
| 0:33.2 | Just to put some context to the reason I asked that question. |
| 0:36.4 | DP World Tour gives, if they choose to go 10 of their best players to the PGA Tour, get instant cards. I think it's still 10. At the end of each season, the DP World Tour, if you think about that, I mean, five years, you've got 50 of the top players have cleared out. If they all don't take it, you've got 40, 35, 40 in the top players on the DP World Tour have cleared out to the PGA Tour. But obviously there are more co-sanctioned events, so you might find that they come back more and then you get some PGA Tour players with it. So there's positives as well. But there's certainly some inclination that the live players might be getting some more |
| 1:11.0 | starts on the DP World Tour. |
| 1:13.4 | And obviously that was probably an option when it all kicked off, Greg. |
| 1:17.3 | Did they get it all wrong? |
| 1:18.3 | What do you think? |
| 1:19.2 | The short answer is yes. |
| 1:21.3 | But in my opinion, but I'm just reading an article here. |
| 1:25.0 | Bob Harrig wrote for Sports Illustrator.com in November 29th |
| 1:28.5 | that came out. And it was Bloomberg that had cited that the PIF were talking to the DP |
| 1:34.6 | World Tour about investing with them. Obviously, they have a relationship with the PGA Tour. |
| 1:40.7 | I think there's so much nuance to this about why they chose to do what they did. I think, |
| 1:47.0 | guys, I think we discussed it at the time. One of the oddest and strangest conflicts of interest, |
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