Subpar - Cam Young rallies to win The Players Championship and our reaction to PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp's 6-theme plan

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

On this week's episode GOLF's Subpar, Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz recap Cam Young's comeback victory at The Players Championship, Brian Rolapp's 6-theme plan for the PGA Tour and Colt's annual match with Mike Commodore at Shadow Creek. --Odyssey has been the #1 putter on Tour for over 25 years—see what an Odyssey can do for your game at odyssey.callawaygolf.com--Rhoback activewear — head to Rhoback.com and use code SUB for 20% off your first order on polos, hoodies, shorts and more.

All right, here we go. Welcome back to another episode of Subpar, very special episode coming to you this this week. We're going to break down the Players' Championship, which is, some say, the fifth major. And also some big news that came out since our last show, CEO of the PGA Tour, Brian Rollout, laying out what possibly the future of the PGA tour looks like. We're going to get into all that. But Slees, let's start with the players, because once again, TPC Sawgrass delivered. And it was an exciting tournament where it ended up being an incredible duel between Cam Young and. and Matt Fitzpatrick. Cam Young getting him by one shot with a par on the 72nd hole.

How about the stones this kid's developed in the last whatever months it was since it, but, you know, the narrative was he's close, he can't win. What do you have like, he's like seven runner-ups or something before he just blist everyone at the wind him. Then he goes to Ryder Cup, goes three in one, and his hometown, basically, makes, I would argue the putt that's the most pressure you could have in golf. The put, not to win the Ryder Cup, but if you miss it, we got zero percent chance

and we actually, he gave us life after that, makes that and then they do what he did down the stretch at the players i mean we can go back to a bunch of shots but the ones to get all the attention 17 the shot he took that pin on which very few people were doing downwind and then not just take it on but then make that putt drips it in the center and then 18 when like group before two groups four zanders hitting four iron off the teegs downwind on 18 he pulls out driver yeah just rocket three said he had it 98 yards to a back pin i didn't even know you could have inside 100 yards on 18 yeah exactly i mean just I don't want to say he's comfortable because I don't think anyone's comfortable and we'll get into that,

like Ludwig and what happened too, but like he's found a way to manage it. And it's almost like the bigger the moment, the better he becomes with the putter especially, but just hits some unreal shots. I mean, he's a monster right now. Yeah, the putter the last nine months has just totally changed for him. I don't know what he's done technically or if it was just a putter change. But I remember going back to the memorial last year and falling him around on me, he couldn't put it in the ocean.

He couldn't hit the hole from three feet. He was so lost, and then something clicked. And it started at the Wyndham Championship, obviously the Ryder Cup. He seems to be a factor every week he teased it up now. I think you look back at his last 12 events, and like other than three events, the worst finish is tied for 11th. Yeah, nine of the 12. Yeah, he's won two of his last 12.

Obviously, a lot of people comparing him to David Duvall. You know, he's very stoic out there. It took David Duval, 92 events to get his first win. Same for Cam Young. And then he went on this absolute heater. And Cam Young obviously has. the talent to do that. He's been a factor in major championships. He's got six top tens in major championships in a young career. But going back to another shot that I don't think just got

near enough love. The plug bunker shot on 16 was absurd. I mean, a horrible break to hit the tree. It wasn't a good shot. It was a bad shot. It was a few bad shots. But to have a plug sucked. And you have this 30 yard bunker shot out of a Friday glide. We've seen guys chip it in from easier, chip it in the water from easier spots. They're doing it all over. And for him to, I know it went to 30 feet, but I think just under the, circumstances if you would have said, okay, we're going to put that ball right there. You want it? Like, yes, right now.

Give it to me. Kick in par. Give yourself a chance. If you were watching on your app and just said, oh, he's in the bunker. Oh, he's 30 feet. Oh, he two putted. It'd been like nothing. But you could lose it quickly, quickly right there.

That was one that, yeah, absolutely could have been done. And he made a comment after the term, which I think he's like kind of figuring out after all these close calls. It's like, man, like, I'm doing a better job of just like hanging around. Like, what do we talk about Scotty and Tiger? They just kind of wait for people to fall off. If you can just hang around, Give yourself a chance.

You never know what's going to happen. That's like exactly what he did. I mean, you can even go back to Saturday makes double on 18. And it's like, oh, now I'm way back, you know, at that point. What did he go to? Was he five back then at that point? Yeah, it's like, oh, five back. And Ludwig looks like a robot.

Like, okay, did it again. But he just hung around, just hung around the hoop. And then down the stretch, it made three of the best swings you'll ever see. The wedge he hit in on 18 after the drive to was all world. The wind just, like, trickled that off the back edge. But if you go back and listen to him, I mean, you mentioned, hitting in the water on 18 on Saturday, which he says, you know,

I didn't hit that bad of a T shot. There was just a lot of wind, and I missed my spot by about a yard. End up going in the water and making double. But he goes back to Arnold Palmer invitations, and he's like, dude, I drove it unbelievably good there. Like, he led the field in fairway percentage, which a guy that length,

that doesn't happen very often. And he said this week at the players, I drove it incredibly average. Like wasn't that confident with the driver. That's what I think stepping up on 18 and doing that makes it even more impressive. of knowing like, hey, I'm not totally confident with this club right now, but I'm going to ship it.

I'm here to win this thing. If you're one down, I could see it a lot more. Like, driver tried to press it, make a birdie. You got to figure if it's going to hit an iron out. If he had a one-shot lead, hit an iron, make a par, force your hand. But the fact that he tied it up on 17 and then pull it out. But I would argue, like, and I didn't, like, maybe wasn't his best this past week at TBC Sawgrass. But, like, driver's probably his best club.

I've got to be the club that he looks. I mean, he's elite with that thing. So, I mean, it's just how hard he hits it. Like, the fairway's not very big. You got to take on the water the whole time, more or less. It could run through with how firm it was and to hit that shot in that moment. But going back to the putting and how it's kind of changed, like, he was below average putter for a long time, right? I don't know what his stats look like this year, but he's making putts that matter.

It seems like, do you think that's, like, I'm going to wager a guess that, like, his mechanics haven't changed a whole lot, anything like that. Do you think just simply, like, the one put at the Ryder Cup with your, you know, your hearts in your stomach at this point? and you can't feel your hands and making that and just being like, all right, dude, if I could do it in that situation, like, I can do it. Is it just like that simple that one put and just confidence? Yeah, I don't think it hurts. I mean, guys make little adjustments here or there. I mean, Scotty, when he started working with Phil Kenyon,

they made a few little technical adjustments, but it wasn't like, oh, we're going to totally revamp your stroke here. Like, you're obviously a great player. You're at the highest level. So I don't know. I'd love to actually sit down and talk with him and ask what the biggest change. if it's been more of a mindset, green reading thing, or if it's actually been something technical in his stroke,

because it's so much different now than what it was. And that's why you see him up there because he's always been an elite ball striker. Yeah, I mean, I think it's got to be mental. I think putting at that level, no one's mechanics are that far off. It's just some guys think they're great putters and they end up being great putters.

It's back and through. Some guys, you get the reputation that you're a horrible putter, great ball striker, and that just kind of like seeps into everything. but man, what a hell of a run by him. I did not see the Ludwig Oberg collapse coming after Saturday. I was like, man, he looks back, especially the way he drove it and played at Bay Hill. And he was a little shaky at the start, but I was like, okay, I think he's weathered the storm,

calm the nerves down a little bit. And then as quickly as there is just, I mean, it was two swings, two holes later. And it was done. And it's not even the holes that you think of when you think of sawgrass. Like, where's the disasters? Because there's a bunch out there. But 11 and 12 aren't the ones. Those are the ones really you circle on the back nine, like birdie, birdie, birdie.

I need to get at least one of these two. And I mean, the good golf started up back on Friday, where he went out there and shot 63 on a Friday, which I've heard they say all the greats do around there. I've heard that. Only the greats. Exactly. Right, exclusively.

Yeah, three shot lead, man. I know it's a diabolical golf course. A lot can happen. But you just think a player of that caliber with how good he was looking going in. You're like, yeah, okay, he's going to be able to handle this one. I'm still trying to, I mean, that would have been by far the biggest win of his career. But you look at it, like him and Cam Young have been kind of. similar in their careers.

Like a lot of hype, but not a lot of wins. And similar games, I would say, too, like off the T elite. Like the stats you gave at Bay Hill with Cam's driver,

like Ludwig was almost the same. Like distance and accuracy, it was like one or two, or one and three. You know how dumb this game is? I just heard this on the way over here. So at Bay Hill. I do know how dumb it is.

Yeah, it's stupid. Bay Hill, Akshay Batia was dead last in Fairways hit. He set the record for least amount of fairways hit by a winner. And he wins a dog. But then he gained 17 around the game. Green. Yeah, but he won the golf tournament. This week, at TPC at the players, number one in driving accuracy, Akshay Batia.

Really? Yeah, like, I mean, that's how fast this game can switch. Yeah, that's wild, by the way. And you would think at Bay Hill, like, if you have to do one thing. Yeah. You just, you have to drive it straight. Not saying you're going to win if you drive it straight, but you can't win if you're driving it crooked. Now you can go ahead and put that to bed. But third week in a row, dude, this Florida swings bringing noise. By the way, it is a bad time to be a 54-hole leader. Although I would argue, like, I mean, two of the three, Lowry lost it. Two swings, by the way, exactly. Ludwig lost it. Two swings.

Shot a big number, you know, shot 76 to find around 40 on the back nine. Burger just, like, got clipped by a dude that played unbelievable. Like, it's not, Berger lost a 54-hole lead, but it's not even close to the same. By the way, Cam Young's had that happened to him of those seven runner-ups, he's like, I've had guys shoot 65, I had 66, you know, like, and just come and beat me. He's like, I've lost some too. But Burger, I look at completely different than these other two. I would need to double check it, but I believe we saw a stat.

After his is like sixth runner up, they went back and they looked at the scoring average of the winners. It was like 66 and a half. It was getting. And his was like 69 or something. Yeah, he wasn't shooting 74s. Yeah. So. And also, I mean, you look at Lowry's and Ludwig's like I would, and Ludwig didn't even get to the point where it's like you get, you know, balls in your throat type situation.

but like those are probably two maybe the two hardest places to close on the PGA tour. But similar to Lugig, like 15, or excuse me, 16 at PGA National isn't the one you think of. No. You think of 15, 17, basically. Like, that's disaster. Not 15.

Same with, same with Luevich. But those are two of probably the hardest places to close the golf tournament, which makes what Cam Young did even more impressive. Yeah, I just, I love that golf course so much. It's one of my favorites on the PGA tour. I just feel like any guy can win around there. It's always a dramatic finish. Like this was a golf course that was designed by Pete Dye

for the best players in the world. This wasn't set up for member play. Like this was set to host a massive golf tournament. And it's got the players and it is so much fun to watch every single year. And I told you this on radio earlier. And I know it probably can't happen because of the PGA tour. No, it can happen. We can make this happen.

And the PGA of America owns the Ryder Cup. But imagine a Rider Cup at TPC Sawgrass. Coming down the street. I mean, like we did this past year, the matches are down to the nut cutting. This whole thing is locked up, and you're standing there on 17T, and you got the ball. Yeah, you got the rock. Hey, your last match out, bud, you're going to decide the cup. You're on 16T.

Why not? Let's do this. Yeah, I would love that. I mean, that's what you dream for. That closing stretch out there, I know it's PJ Tour and PJ of America. Figure it out for the fans. I think everyone would just love that so much. It would be a great host venue.

I mean, they get massive crowds there for the play. Just imagine what it'd be like for the Rider Cup. But I know what it's like to be on that 17th T on Sunday, you know, in contention and getting ready to pull the trigger and how nervous you are. Imagine having the whole way to your country on your back being like, okay, I got a dial one in here. Yeah, downwind, back right pin. I mean, it's hard to hit driver, you know, off a team when you're feeling like that,

much less thread one in there. It would be all world. I mean, year after year, with a few exceptions. A, it's an unbelievable leaderboard, best players in the world. What was it outside of the top 15? How many was the last time? The last eight winners, maybe the last seven winners. Cam Young is the worst ranked of the champions, and he was ranked 15th.

15th, now he's fourth. I mean, you had Rory twice. You had Scotty twice. Cam Smith was 10th. Yeah. But like, it produces the best guy. Like, there's no weird ones in there. Craig Perks is like they don't, they're having once in a while and things like that.

It just produces the best play. It gets you the best players and the best drama. Like, it's probably, honestly, the most fun when the get conditions like we got yesterday firm bouncy the wind started to rip at the end

I was like this is probably the most and you have a tight leaderboard like this is probably the best drama and got maybe you know you run into like some stuff coming out of Gusta or things like that but just like closing stretch of holes

and the pucker factor it's I mean it's one of the best weeks of the year I feel like it's I don't can't remember someone like just absolutely running away with it I mean Scotty won by didn't he win by four yeah Webb Simpson did too at one point So yeah, you can.

Like Scotty running away, it's kind of like, yeah, that happens. It's just hard to separate your, because there's so many just train wrecks. And I told you, like, now that I sit back and I really look at this golf course, like I think the fourth hole there, and it doesn't get attention because it's so early in the round. But the fourth hole there might be one of the best par fours in all of golf. It gives these players so much trouble. We saw Ludwig make bogey after hitting in the left row. We saw Michael Thor Bjornson in the final pairing with him, make an eight after actually being disciplined enough to lay up out of the

rough. It was also nice to see rough this past week. But that little fourth hole, I mean, it's literally a hybrid, a three or a three wood, and a wedge. And it just makes these guys go crazy. They know if they miss the fairway, they got a lot of stress. I believe for the week, if you hit the fairway, you were a full stroke better than if you did not. Like that, that's how big of a difference it was, because this whole, it's narrow. It sets you up off the tee, and you just look at that fairway bunker in the creek down the right, and everybody bails out left, are absolutely screwed. Yeah, it's one of the few, like, non, like, most of the holes, par fours, I think,

when you think about, like, strategy and, you know, how much thinking goes on. Like, they're drivable holes. Like, 10 at Riv. And it used to be more so now, like, everyone sends it, right? But, like, that's when you sit there and think. But you can get up there, you can get on the green, everybody hits it up there. 15 at Travelers, maybe, 17 at, you know, TBC Scottsdale. What are some of the other ones?

Like, they're drivable holes. You don't get many non-drivable. super strategic. Maybe Harbor Towns got some, you know, I would say. But more or less, it's like, do I want to take on the wrist of driving the green? And that's the end of the discussion. That one's like, a bunch of it, do I want to press it down there, try to get a wedge, but maybe missed a fairway, lay it back.

But then I got a harder second shot. It's beautiful. And that whole golf course is like that. And when you grow the rough up, you get firm greens. Like, it makes for awesome, awesome golf. It's just such a genius design by Pete Dye. I mean, he makes the players think so much. And he makes them look at something.

that they know is trouble, and they make them bail out, and it turns out the bailout is normally worse than the trouble. And, like, there's not a lot of people that create golf courses like that. I mean, you look at all the new ones nowadays. There's 7,700 yards, 50-yard-wide fairways with 7,000 square-foot greens that have a ton of movement in them. And the best players in the world, that shit don't bother them. When you get their heads spinning out there like TPC Sawgrass does,

that's when we see these guys really get tested. I mean, this is the best in the world, the best players in the world, 13 under par one. And, I mean, very tough conditions, but not, like, outrageous. It wasn't like unfair at any point. We got some rain early in the week. Ludwig shot nine under, you know, second day. Like, you could go get it.

It wasn't like, but, I mean, Sunday played perfect. Like, you could go shoot a good score, but it's, you got to be on all aspects of your game. You guys chipping in the water, you know, not knowing what to do, where to miss. And you're 100% right. Like, it's almost like the more aggressive you play it, like, the better your chances. Because when you aim away from the trouble and get, like, then you just, you can make, you can make huge numbers still, but you're just going to make a ton of bogey. Like, you're just not going to make birdies.

All right. Well, let's make that rider cup at TPC Sawgrass. I'd be just fine with that. Just fine with that. Well, there was also another battle on the golf course this past week. I told you I was going to have to give you a little update. If it went well, if not, I was just going to act like it never happened. That's the beat of this job. Made our annual little birthday bash trip up to Shadow Creek for our man Ben Marsh.

Myself, the legend Mike Commodore, team up against Ben Marsh and Chris Deem and every year at Shadow. And we rumble. I'm proud to say we were victorious this year's sleeves. We rebounded after a very subpar effort. I would say by us last year. And we bounced back and we put the wood to them right out of the gates. We don't need to say how the end result ended up. Just know that we had a massive lead with nine to play.

And there was no one that could have puked this lead off. No one. No one. Unpukable. Unpugable. I got to FaceTime afterwards with you guys all in the car. Got to say, Comey looked glowing. Rondaritas for everyone. He was on by this.

I couldn't tell where his hair stopped. His face started. Looked like y'all had a good time. out there. What's better than that? Nothing. Other than under the lights, which we should try.

Shout out to Shadow Creek, though. Just unbelievable. I actually ended up playing there three days in a row. Played Thursday, Friday, Saturday. It's my favorite place in the world, and they say come out and play. I'm going to show up. Don't save you don't mean.

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At our age, we're men, we're 40. Yeah. One, actually. Three days in Vegas is a lot. Too many. It's a lot of poison. Two's nice, but it was. How are the tables?

Do you get on the tables? Did have a nice run. Oh, shit. Yeah, got down early and then came back and won a decent amount and you would have thought I was trying to rob the entire casino because they didn't want to cash out my chips because of a little technical glitch in the computer. And I was like, so wait a second. When I lose, you don't really ask any questions. But when I win, and by the way, I won 10 feet from here at that table right there and that lady watched every second of it. Can we just have my chips and I can go about my business?

Riggs loves a loser. Mm-hmm. Done like a winner. They do not. But yeah, man, it was a fun trip always. I went to the barbershop a couple of times, which is my favorite spot. A little place called Pinky Ring,

who owns his own about Bruno Mars. Yeah, Bruno was in the building. Was he? Yeah, he wasn't singing. He might have sang later in the night, but when I was there, he had the table just kind of behind us and to the left, but back there in his sunglasses,

having himself a time. But yeah, Bruno made an appearance. He'll be working there until he's 58. For what I hear. But yeah, man, you know, Vegas. It never disappoints. That's a good time. Good time.

It'd be, like, I don't know, March Madness is about to start, but, like, also just, conference tournaments. March is an awesome time to go. March Madness is one of the great times to go to Vegas because daytime you just go to sports book and just park it and it's 17 games are on. Everybody's on different shit. Miss free throw, you know, half court heaves at the end and people erupted for teams to lose by 13. It's beautiful. I will tell you a funny story. Good for degenerate. So Friday morning, Kami and I went over to the sports book, play some bets. He always wants to

make some hockey bets that, by the way, you suck at Kami. I never win any of them. But we're sitting there And it's about 10 in the morning. We're having a couple breakfast beers, getting ready to go to Shadow Creek. And these gentlemen come over. They're on a bachelor party. Young man by the name of Jack comes over. He's like, Colt, big fan. Love subpar.

Listen every week. Shout out, Jack. Want to help me with my golf matchups today? I was like, sure. I don't know if you knew this. I wasn't in the best before. The mind wasn't really firing. And so he gave me like four matchups.

I picked each one of them. I don't think one matchup was within like eight strokes. I mean, it was so bad. I told him, I said, this course sucks for Michael Thorbjornson. He doesn't drive it straight enough. He'll struggle today. He went out and shot 64. That's golf knowledge.

I can't remember my other one, but I was like, oh, this guy, he's turning it around. He's playing good. He was like eight over through 14. I was like, damn, stay hot. Sorry, Jack. Holler if we can help you with anything else, bud. Sorry. We were out of shadowed.

I was checking the scores. I was like, those guys are just MFing me right now. So bad. As you give commie shit for his hockey bets. Yeah, Jack, let me see what you got. Oh, Thorbjornson. Fade. Yep.

Yeah. Can't hit it straight. Comey did bet on St. Bonaventure because apparently they have a seven-foot guy. There's a dude that looks like him. He's red-haired. Yeah. So that's what he went with and he won, by the way. I'm not mad at it.

There's a dude on High Point that has shot 132 threes or shots this year, and 128 of them or something like that have been threes. It's your favorite player. Routing for you. Yeah, he's just playing intermurals out there actually high-level basketball. Yeah. And I'll bet you the four that he shot there are twos that are foot on the line. no way he's actually a little big range game from the elbow.

So find a guy you love that plays like you play. Know your game. It looks like you. Fire him. I'll probably bet in high. I don't think those are any of any of those exist for me, unfortunately. No, dude. There's not a ton.

There's a dude. It's his high school, though. He's in India. His shit might be over by now. I don't know. He's doing like in the state playoffs. Big boy. I love you.

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A little tidbit for you. Yes. You know, it was spotted at the old FBI in Augusta. I've told you for three weeks. I have a good feeling about this. Like Ben Crenshaw said at the Ryder Cup, I got good feeling about this.

People are quick to point out, Charlie was playing an event at Sage Valley, which is not far away. However, I would argue, perfect decoy for Tiger to be like, oh, I went up there to watch Charlie, but also slide over, play a few rounds of also if he was at the junior tournament that charlie was at i haven't seen any pictures of him and there's

he can't like walk out of the restroom without people video him and put it on on social media so i haven't seen any yet which leads me to believe he was at augusta i don't think i've ever seen him or i've never not seen him when charlie is playing and he's there like a picture of him come out oh too and i know he's involved in the patch which he's helping with augusta national to design there but once again i think if he was there you would have seen pictures you know where you're not going to pictures of him at Augustine National. Yeah. I don't think, no disrespect to anyone. I don't think Tiger's getting on his plane and flying up for not the grand opening of the patch.

How do you think they knew it was his plane? Was it the red and black and the tail number that ends in TW? It was a big cartoon tiger that's drawn on the side of it. If for a guy loves his privacy, they're going to monitor your plane. Although, dude, it happens for all these people if you don't have T-dub. Like when it's coaching carousel season and people like, oh, just landed in Baton Rouge, you know, from Gainesville and all this shit. So he's not going to be under the radar no matter what he does. But I have a good feeling.

If you're on the tiger's going to tee it up. Also, like just on that, like, let's just say it's physically possible for him to get around 72 holes at Augusta right now. Like if he has the hopes of like winning, contending, playing more than just like being a ceremonial, hey, I'm out here isn't this cool. I'm still playing major. Like it's hard to be like, I'll just wait another couple years and the body's going to get better. Yeah. It's almost like you got to go.

If you're going to do it, you kind of got to go if you're physically able. Don't you think? I mean, I would just have to think he's going to feel better at 50 than he does at 51. And these players are just getting younger and better. And, I mean, unfortunately, he's not. They stay the same age. You know what I mean? I'm liking the chances of him team team team up at the 90th Masters.

And I just can't wait, just a few weeks away. Yeah, we're getting there. All right. Well, the big news came out last week after our episode came out. CEO of the PGA tour, Brian Rollout, meeting with the media and going over what the future the PGA tour could possibly look like. He's been talking, you know, big changes coming.

And he went through, he had six themes. And we're going to go through each one of them here, kind of what the future could look like. Hopefully, you know, some in 2027, it sounds like they're going to try to roll out. 2028, though, it seems like this is, this is where we're headed. But he said nothing is set in stone yet. This hasn't gone to the pack, to the players, anything like that. This is just kind of where they're at and where they agree.

And there's still a lot of questions to be answered. But he gave a pretty good idea. of what we could possibly expect to see. Yeah, there weren't, like, details to, like, here's how it's going to work. We're going to start here. It's going to be this. And these, like, it was just, like, broad stuff.

And I think Wednesday Slater to talk again in June. He will talk to the Travelers Championship in June. I think, I would assume that's when we'll get some, like, detail. Okay, here's what we got. This is how it's going to work going forward. All right. So let's start off with number one. And it's basically when the meat of the schedule will be.

And obviously, it's to avoid football. But they're talking late January to early September, possibly 21 to 27. six events. So currently there's eight signature events. He wants to at least double those to 16. Okay, you have four majors. That's 20. The three playoff events is 23. And then the Ryder Cup or the

President's Cup is 24. Like I said, he hopes to at least double those. So there's still room for a couple of more. But the big thing about these slees is back to larger fields. They're thinking 120 man field, which I think is perfect. Amen. Amen. With a cut. Which we never needed to go away from in the first place.

So listen, I mean, if they're going to keep this at 100 guys keep their card each year. That means at these big time events in that stretch, if you kept your card, you get to tee it up. As it should be. Yes. A hundred guys, dude, in the world, they all want to play on this tour, almost, right?

That's not very many dudes. If you did that and you kept it, you should get to start at a level playing field with Scotty and Rory and these guys that are in all the signatures. And then, I mean, obviously, if there's a hundred, and just say they all play, the other 20 spots, I mean, you got Corn Ferry guys, You got Q School DP World Tour.

Obviously a couple of sponsor exemptions, but you give guys a chance to play their way in. Like we are right now with the Aon Swing Five and the next 10 and everything. But I think this is going to be so much easier for fans to track. And I think there's going to be just more opportunities for guys to play their way in.

Knowing if they have a good week the week before, they can possibly get in to, I don't even know if they'll be called signature events anymore. I think this is just going to be what the PGA tour is going for. And there's still talk of doing fall events. and all of that. But he wants every event to matter, which I agree with.

Like every week on the NFL schedule, for the most part, matters. He wants every week on the PGA tour schedule to matter. And now, can you get these guys to commit to playing all of these events? Probably not. But if you give them one or two outs, something like that, I get it.

But I know their big thing is the playoffs. So golf's the only real major sport where once the playoffs hit, the ratings don't go up. Because it's complicated or shit. People don't get it. and we still view the majors is the biggest thing. Like the playoffs aren't the biggest, like FedEx Cup.

No, so, I mean, there's talk of possibly going towards the matchplay direction, which I think still has a lot of questions. Match play is very risky. Your TV partners, your big-time sponsors, this is the granddaddy of mall, and if you don't end up with two big names in that final, you're not very happy. There's a reason the old matchplay down at Tucson went from just the straight, basically NCAA bracket to where it was around Robin,

because the chances of Tiger Woods losing three times, was a lot better than him just winning once, like he did to Nick O'Hurton, losing to Nick O'Hern like he did twice in the first round. Nick O'Hern, what a beast. Yeah. What a beast. But, I mean, think about that.

Like, you're like, okay, here's the best player in the world, Tiger Woods. We just lost him on Wednesday. And he's gone. Yeah. And, but, I mean, he's also said, how did he phrase it? Like, he wants a win or go home scenario. Like every other playoff, March Madness.

That's why we love it. A Cinderella could happen. We all get behind it. And every other sport, like, the Cinderella gets love from the public. They want to see that. But in golf, it's like, for some reason, we're like, oh, what if Scottie doesn't make it to the finals and things like that? Now, I don't know how this will play out. But let's just use it for like round numbers sake.

If it's a tour championship, the final event where they're going to go to match play, and you get, so you move it to 32, right, just to make it easy for match play. It's like, all right, if you've made it to the top 32 at the end of the year on the PJ tour, like you might not be a household name, but you're a fucking great player. It is so hard to make it to Eastlake that even if anyone could beat anyone on a given day, Scottie could lose the number 32. No problem. One round of golf, of course. Of course. But it's like these aren't going to be just some out of left field guy you've never heard of in your life. It's like these dudes played the whole season to get there. We got it whittled down to the top 32.

If we went through the top 32 and like the world golf rankings right now, our data golf or whatever you want to use, like it'd be okay. And I'd be fine with it number 24 made it in there. Like this is sick. This guy's running over stars. I totally understand it. But you're a real golf fan and you watch pretty much every single week. Correct.

If it got, I'm just going to use two recent winners for an example. example. If the finals were Ricky Castillo and Jacob Bridgman, I don't think the ratings would be like going through the roof. Maybe I could be wrong with a new format. They could, but one thing I would expect for them to do, even if it is match play, it'll be a stroke play version of match play. So low score advances. You can't have a seven and six. Yeah, you can't have these dirt naps early, especially like if it's say it's a 36 whole final on Sunday. And this thing's over with seven or eight holes to play. And you have two hours of what was supposed to be your prime time network coverage that's pointless. Like you're basically replaying it or just

recapping everything that happened. The risk of true matchplay. So if you made a stroke play match, but I just think like... And then you can have three shot swings or something coming down to the stretch. Yeah, something weird could happen. And like that's what we've been saying for,

you know, when we, every year when the FedEx tip comes around, especially tour champions, like how should we do it? What's better? Match play, this, that, you know, they went away from the handicapping,

which is great. At least everyone's starting, you know, at level par now. But it's like you ultimately want like one moment, one group, one match, whatever it is for like 18 holes for all of it. You know what I mean? Just like everything else.

Here's the Super Bowl. It's one game for the whole thing. Here's the national title. It's one game. Like, that's what you want. In an ideal world, it would be come down to the 18th hole. And it would be great. No guarantees in golf.

But there's no guarantees that Scotty's going to, you know, come down the stretch at the tour championship when you're not handicapping it or some of these other guys. Like, it's golf. That's what makes it different. Like anybody could do it. But I'm more for that. Anyways, I like that kind of openness, at least, to do in that where it's win or go home. I'm not, oh, you're going to start at 10 under, you're at 8 under, and all that stuff. And as Brian Rolap will tell you, like, he's not a golfer.

I think it's good. Yeah, he's here to put a fantastic product out there. And whatever it is, whatever the, I believe he said in his press conference, he goes, you know the simplest thing you can do is just think as a fan. Like, what would the fans want? And nine out of ten times, they're probably going to agree. And you can make this great product out there and get these ratings. By the way, the ratings aren't bad.

The ratings are ahead of Sunday night baseball, the NHL, a lot of NBA games. Like golf does fine. I just think he can do even better. And with him in charge, it's just, listen, he doesn't care. He respects the history of the game. But it's my job is to put the best product out there, and I'll do whatever it takes to do that. And he knows, like, coming from the NFL, he knows, like, what works. And golf will never be football, of course.

But having a guy that's not a golf guy, I think is an asset here. I think golf, it's run by golf people. We're big on tradition and keeping things the same. And it's always worked like this. Why do we need to tweak it? And just have somebody coming as like, you know, product-based. What makes the best product? I mean, one of the bullet points, we'll get to it right now.

One of the things he says, like, we're not playing in the biggest markets. Why are we not playing in Boston? Why are we not playing in Chicago, New York, these places with, like, great golf fans, great golf history. Why are we skipping these? Like, that's something that's like an outside person that knows nothing about golf, like, hey, here's our tour. Here's our biggest cities. We don't go to them.

They'd be like, what are you doing? That's a miss. I mean, you look at the top 10 media markets, the PJ Tour isn't four of them. and he's like, that's not acceptable. We should be in all 10. I expect some change up in the schedule. You look at like the FedEx Cup playoffs, and these are all great spots,

great golf courses, but when we're there in August, I mean, this year you're going Memphis, St. Louis, Atlanta. Like, that's not just like, oh, hey, everybody, come out and watch some golf. It's real pleasant out here. I mean, it's going to be 110 degrees humid as shit. And it's just not that idea.

I've told you this idea. I think it would be awesome. Like, you wanted to end big. You want it to be a big splash. I think a tour championship at Liberty National with the back, nine, maybe the last six holes, under the lights. I mean, you're going right towards the Manhattan skyline. I mean, how cool, and it'd be in prime time?

That would be unbelievable. Yeah, anything prime time. I think West Coast would be a cool place for the thing. There's multiple options for where to go with that, but like not playing in New York regularly, Boston, all these. Chicago, dude, like they show up. It's every player when they come out of there, like, this is sweet. Why don't we play here every year?

It's one of the best golf towns in the U.S. Like we're just missing. That's my point being like getting a non-golf guy in here. Like, whoa, first thing. We're not even hitting our big. Are you going to have the most eyeballs if we're not in our biggest markets? Like, LA not having an NFL team. Like, no, dude, we're going to put it in.

I figured you'd use Dallas. You know what I mean? We'll put it in Palm Springs, you know? Now Dallas. I mean, do they have an NFL team? Oh, yeah, you got the team. Yeah, they're still going. Going back to the start of the season, though, one thing he said,

just like they do in the NFL on a Thursday night, they open big. It's always a big time. game right out of the gates and that's what he wants on the pGA tour he wants an iconic venue um west coast out west you notice he said venue not course iconic venue out west so it finishes on the east coast in prime time um this is any ideas i have a feeling there's one about three minutes right down the road here called tpc scottstale home of the wm phoenix open which would be awesome it in my opinion, I believe this would go the week before the Super Bowl in between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl is that dead week because you're like,

hey, there's nothing going on here. This is the week. Let's get this PJ tour started, get everybody excited. Then we take a week off for the Super Bowl because there's no reason to go up against that and then we get going. And their goal long term is to own the summer. Like they want golf to be must-see TV throughout the summer, going up against baseball. obviously some basketball,

but that is their big goal. But I love this. We're going to open big. Yeah, I mean, what's bigger? I mean, there's some great venues. There's some great golf courses out west, but like iconic events, like venues, like TBC Scottsdale, it's the biggest, if you're going to make a big splash to open the season,

I mean, what would make more sense than that? I don't have any insider information. I'm not saying it's done deal, but I'm just like, I mean, if this is the way you're going, and we're going to start basically when football ends, we'll call it even if it was the week before the Super Bowl. It's the biggest you got. No, but I'm excited, man.

Brian Rollout, listening to him speak, like, he's such a smart dude. He doesn't mess around. He doesn't hesitate. He is, I thought during his press conference, he was just, he was so, so nice and open with everything. He never was defensive. He asked every media member when they asked a question to say who you are and who you work for, because he wants to get to know you. I just thought it was a great vibe in there.

And he just comes across so positive. And I think the future of the PGA tour is very bright. And I'll tell you this, it's a damn good time to be a young, really good player because if all goes as planned, you're going to make a lot of money in the next several years. Also, I like that he doesn't pretend to have the answer to everything. He's like, I don't know. We're going to see all that. And he's like, he'll ask questions and things like, like, what do you think, you know, and all that? Also, just the fact that he's up in front of everyone taking questions.

That's a nice thing for a leader to do. It's kind of part of the job. You know what I mean? He's not invisible. He's not inaccessible. like he's going to do it again in June and he's revamping the whole thing, not just answering question on what's going on

when it's status quo. So I think he's been phenomenal. Also like the last bullet point we kind of talked about it, but like promotion and relegation. He compared it to like the English Premier League, right, the soccer team like, you know, if it's a, you know, he called him,

what do you call him, tracks basically. First track would be what you mentioned, 16 signature events, all that type of stuff. That's what you want. That's like the A tour. And there would be like a B tour, but there's ways to play your way from the B to the A and drop down and things like that,

which makes total sense. It's kind of like Corned Prairie BJ Tour, but like within the same tour, the two tracks would be. And I feel like it's, I don't know exactly how I would work, but I, that's how,

I mean, that's a good model, I feel like. Yeah, but I mean, I feel like relegation has always been a part of the PJ tour. I mean,

if you didn't finish in the top 125 for a long period of time, like, you lost your job. Yeah, you could get it back at Q school and stuff, but like, yeah,

you go to cornfrey's a job. You were relegated for a moment. I don't know how much difference it's going to be there. but yeah, I'm telling you, I just love everything the guy's saying. Yeah, and I took it to me, like, obviously that is why I was saying, it's kind of like Corn Ferry Tour, PGA Tour, but they're both within the same tour. I, maybe I was misreading it, or maybe it is the case, but I thought to like,

there was more of an opportunity to play from, let's call it, the second track into the first track than we have right, like, during the season, then we have right now. It's like, right now we got the swing five, the five dudes are, you know, playing their way in. This feels like, and especially when you expand the field out to, you know, he wants 120-man fields at least with cuts it gives you more room to to add those guys that can get in the mix of all hundred guys that keep their card you get in all of them potentially you got 20 flex spots however you want to figure out who gets those okay well um that's a wrap for our talk about brian rollap and everything he's got coming to the pj tour i'm very excited for it uh you're gonna talk about scotties lost it

time to revamp everything we got a lot of people in the media think it's got he's broken right now and it's i think he's getting sick of answering the question based on some of his answers. Yeah. Which I don't blame him one bit. Look, I mean, he's, if it was anybody else, you wouldn't blink an eye at it. He'd just be like, yeah, you know, he didn't have his best stuff this week. T-22, pretty solid week.

But when it's the number one player in the world and 18 straight top tens, and then he's got three in a row where he doesn't finish in the top ten and isn't a factor, people start asking questions. Look, he's a little off, a little funk with the iron game. The driving was much better at the players. The putting was fine. The iron game just was off. He was 47th in Greens and Regulation are the guys that made the cut.

That's just not normal. normal for Scotty, but I'm not too worried. I still expect him to be a massive favorite here in a few weeks heading down Magnolia Lane. I would honestly almost go the other way and be like, wow, this dude, by all accounts, ask him, like, he's not playing, he's not driving as good as he normally does. He's not hitting his irons as well as he normally does. He's not putting it as well as he has, and he's still finishing like, I mean,

he missed a bunny on the 18th. He would have finished in the top 20. You know what I mean? And it did the same signature at Bay Hill the week before. On two of the hardest golf courses where if you don't have your best stuff, I would go get it more like he's playing bad, like, by his expectations and his standards and the way he can play. And he's still like top 20, basically, every single time. No one else does that.

No one else. Even like Rory, who's the next mentioned guy, like in the same breath with Scotty, right? If he goes off on a few weeks little, you know, not playing his best, like no one seems to like, ah, he doesn't care right now. Ah, he's got a grand slam hangover, whatever. Like, everyone gets passes except Scotty, but victim of your own success. You know who doesn't finish in the top 20? at every event. My picks. You're not picking Sebstraka enough, bro.

Yeah, contrast two weeks in a row. That's three straight. I have Brooks. Yeah. This is official streak. Okay, well, we're on to the Valspar championship. Quickly, let's make some picks before we get out of here. This is a ball strikers golf course. It normally plays extremely tough. A guy who's not been happy with his game this year,

who just became a major champion last year. He's one of the best ball strikers. He's got to turn it around at some point. and you can get him top 20 at plus 160. JJ Spawn, it's time. Get me off my Schneide I got going on here. Showed some flashes at the players. Hard to imagine, like, getting him in the top 20. You know what I mean?

But welcome to the top 20 world. I think it's a way warmer water to swim in. Top 10, there's not a lot of wiggle room for a bad round. They might be calling me and say stop picking me. Are you over thus far? I think so. Okay. Let's get hot.

Get hot one time. I'm going back to the well, bud, to one of my old favorites. Old trusty. Ball strikers golf course. Who comes to mine? Sleez. Oh, Corey Conners.

Come on down. Top 20 plus 150. Vegas is messing up right now. For the first time, they had Sepsraka way misprice the last two weeks, took advantage of it. Brooks was off the week before.

Now they're not showing any love. Corey, who just played great, played really well at the players. It's, it is frustrated. I get frustrated sometimes watching them. I have no skin in the game. I'm like, he hits it. He has so many puts.

so many puts that he could make and like he'd be a world beater. I didn't he try the broosting. I would, the fact that he doesn't just bang his head against the wall after every turn, I'm like, I hate it better than almost everybody every week. And I, you know, I don't know. But top 20, like I said, you got a little cush to miss some putts.

So 150, let's go, Corey Connors. All right, JJ Spong, Corey Connors. Let's go. Everybody enjoy the Vowalspar championship. And we'll talk to you on next week's subpar.