To Fend Off LIV, the PGA Tour Needs to Change. Here’s How.

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On Monday, the PGA Tour released its 2022-23 schedule, and… well, it looks pretty much the same as this year’s schedule. That’s a problem, Joseph LaMagna (@JosephLaMagna) argues in a new article on The Fried Egg website. If the PGA Tour expects to compete with the insurgent LIV league, it needs to rethink the structure of its season and especially its playoff series. Joseph joins Andy Johnson to discuss specific ways that the Tour can adjust its schedule to become a better, more competitive product.

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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 back to another edition of the Fried Egg podcast.
0:37.0	I am Andy Johnson. I am here today with Joseph Lemania, who is a, I guess you could call him an expert in golf analytics, a bright guy with a lot of ideas.
0:49.0	He wrote an article for the Fried Egg centered around the schedule, the PGA tour schedule that was released.
0:58.0	And what did you like to see from it? And I, I really liked his thoughts on it and figured it was a good time to talk about the PGA tour and their response to live and potential ways for them to kind of fight back.
1:10.0	Obviously, this is a huge monumental battle that is going on in professional golf.
1:15.0	It is one of the biggest stories in all of sports.
1:18.0	You know, I think a lot of talk has been around what the tour hasn't done.
1:23.0	And we wanted to come to the table with some ideas about what the tour can do to, you know, kind of fight off in, in retain its top talent in the coming months.
1:34.0	Obviously, there have been a significant amount of players that have gone already.
1:39.0	I think there are more that are planning to go.
1:42.0	So this was a discussion that was really centered around how does the tour fended off over the next five years as the battle will be a long and arduous one.
1:53.0	Obviously, it's heading to courts.
1:55.0	I think we will probably be doing something centered around that.
1:59.0	But we also have a band and dunes podcast coming up as well as a part two of the Scotland golf podcast and the in the coming episodes.
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