The big winner has the mindset to shake up PGA Tour events
One of golf’s best competitors has a vision for PGA Tour tournaments.
Competition.
Speaking on the latest episode of GOLF’s “Subpar” podcast, Geoff Ogilvy said he knows change is coming to the Tour. There have been ideas about what that might be. Maybe a later season start. Maybe a few events.
And here’s the thought of the 2006 US Open winner:
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Pit tournaments against each other. Competition, as they say, breeds success.
“I’d like to see the tournaments get better,” Ogilvy said on “Subpar.” “I would like to see American Express trying to be better than Torrey and Torrey trying to be better than Phoenix and LA trying to be better than Phoenix. If you have a competitive situation, I mean the players will win, everyone will benefit.
“If you say that you are going to be big and you are going to be small, I don’t know, I’d rather see — the Masters is the Masters because it has done an amazing job for 100 years. Phoenix is a very good tournament because it is an unbelievable organization that there are many people who spend a lot of time and make a lot of effort, not just to do this tournament. It’s just a big event and if you had to make such an effort to be better than all the other tournaments, they would all compete and strive to be special.
“There’s always going to be special events. People want to come to Phoenix because it’s an amazing atmosphere. The Memorial is a great event because it’s a great course and you’re treated very well and you feel special, right? But they’ve done a great job of making it feel special. I think you’ve put a little bit of competition into the championships and they’re all trying to outdo each other, I think they’re going to win for everybody.”
Ogilvy then went further.
It would be interesting, he said, to see tournaments competing for broadcast rights.
“I don’t know if that adds up to that much,” said Ogilvy, “but if you had to be better than last week and next week because Amazon or Netflix or CBS or whoever it was, we want that competition because that competition is always big on television, well, next week they have to improve their product, they have to be better because they want to do that. And I think there will be beneficiaries and those who will benefit from the competition and those who will benefit. the TV audience because everyone he will be competing to be better than last week and next week.
“Also, I’m out of my lane and I don’t understand how all those things work. But competition is good, and I think we’re chasing this sugar problem if you don’t have a field, you don’t have competition. And we’ve just successfully bought fields with money, and I don’t think money is as exciting as fame and history.”
Editor’s note: To watch the entire episode with Ogilvy, please click here or scroll quickly below.
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