One of golf’s better competitors has an idea for PGA Tour tournaments.
Competition.
Talk about the most recent episode from GOLF’s “Subpar” podcastGeoff Ogilvy said he knows change is coming to the Tour. There have been clues as to what that might be. Maybe a later start to the season. Maybe fewer events.
And here is the 2006 US Open winner’s thoughts:
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Pit tournaments against each other. Competition, as they say, leads to success.
“I would like to see the tournaments compete a little bit with the other tournaments to get better,” Ogilvy said on “Subpar.” “I would like to see American Express try to be better than Torrey and Torrey try to be better than Phoenix and LA try to be better than Phoenix. When you have a situation where tournaments are competing with each other, I mean the players are going to win and everyone is going to benefit.”
“If you just say, you’re going to be the big ones and you’re going to be the little ones, then I don’t know. I would prefer it – the Masters is the Masters because they’ve done a great job for 100 years. Phoenix is a great tournament because it’s an incredible organization, with a lot of people putting a lot of time and effort into it – it’s not just a tournament, it’s just an event and it’s just a huge event.” And if you had to put in that kind of effort to be better than all the other tournaments, they would all be competing against each other and they would all be fighting to be special.
“There will always be special events. People want to come to Phoenix because it has a great atmosphere. Memorial is a great event because it’s a great course and you get treated so well and it feels special, doesn’t it? But they’ve done a great job of making it feel special. I think you put a little bit of competition into the tournaments and they’re all trying to outdo each other, I think everyone is going to win.”
Ogilvy then continued.
It would be interesting, he said, to see tournaments compete for broadcast rights.
“I don’t know if that would pay off as much,” Ogilvy said, “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 tournament because that tournament is always great on TV, well, the next week they’re going to have to improve their product, they have to get better because they want to. And I think there would be such a competition between the tournaments that the players, the spectators and the TV audience would benefit because everyone would be competing to be better. are then last week and next week.
“Again, I’m way out of my league and I don’t understand how all that stuff works. But the competition is good, and I think we’ve chased this sugar hit. If you don’t have a field, you don’t have a tournament. And we’ve just effectively bought fields with money, and I don’t think money is as exciting as prestige and history.”
Editor’s note: Click to watch the entire episode with Ogilvy here or scroll directly below.
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