Why We're (Cautiously) Optimistic About the PGA Tour's Designated Events

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week's Waste Management Phoenix Open is the PGA Tour's first full-field "designated event." The designated-event series, created in response to LIV Golf's attempts to lure the world's top male players with guaranteed paydays, will transform the Tour's structure in ways that are hard to predict. After discussing the Phoenix Open and its better-than-you-might-think venue, Andy and Garrett explain why they're excited about designated events, both as a product and as a catalyst for change on the PGA Tour. In the second half of the episode, they address some of their lingering questions about the series, and Andy lays out a pitch for each event's field size and qualification criteria.

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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 fried egg.
0:07.0	Fried egg. The dreaded fried egg.
0:09.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:10.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:11.0	Fried egg. Fried egg.
0:12.0	I'm about ready to run off the golf course course.
0:30.0	Welcome to the fried egg podcast. I'm Garrett Morrison.
0:37.0	And today we are talking about designated events on the PGA tour, formerly known as elevated events.
0:44.0	Frankly, elevated makes more sense in terms of nomenclature.
0:48.0	But we're talking about the new series events of events on the PGA tour that, you know,
0:53.0	it's kind of concentrating the schedule around certain big tournaments that all the top players are going to be at.
0:59.0	It's a major change on tour that's really going to come into focus next season.
1:03.0	But we're kind of rolling into it this season.
1:06.0	And the occasion for this, of course, is that the waste management, Phoenix Open,
1:10.0	the first full field designated event of 2023 is happening right now this week.
1:17.0	Here to talk about all of the interesting issues around this with me is Andy Johnson. Andy has gone.
1:23.0	It's going great, Garrett. I'm super excited about this.
1:27.0	You know, as this came to fruition, I think there are some qualms about how it was rolled out this year.
1:33.0	And, you know, it goes back to kind of the response to live that the tour had last year, right.
1:39.0	But I think the exciting thing about it is the is what's happening where we know when the best players are all going to be together.
1:47.0	And then the the future of it, what it looks like next year.
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