Tuesday: Brooks Koepka Leaves LIV

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Brooks. Keepka has notified everybody that he has done with Live,
and whether or not he plays on the PGA Tour
is still very much to be determined. My guess is
he's going to have to qualify for events if they
let him back, and probably have some kind of a
deal with a charity of his choice of the PGA
Tour's charitable deal. I hope he comes back. He's a
good player that people need to watch and want to watch,

(00:26):
and he's kind of an aloof different kind of guy
that doesn't necessarily like the ridiculous questions that sometimes he
gets asked by the golf media. But I think he's
good for golf, and I think LIVE is crumbling a
little bit internally, and at some point it's going to
be an organization of players that no one cares about.
Bryson and John Ram are really the only two on
there that matter right now to me.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, I was about to say, I mean, outside of Kopka,
who really is left in terms of a marketable draw.
I am really curious to see how the PGA Tour
handles this, since it is the first one, the first name,
first big name that we see now potentially laying out
the bread Cross.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
He wins the Masters, do you let him into the
next week in Hilton Head.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, you kind of have to at that point.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I mean, the Master's winner, if not otherwise exempt, would
have a five year exemption on the PGA Tour. But
he's in eligible for the PGA Tour because he went
to live So where's the rub there?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, I almost feel like it's more likely he goes
back to Q School than winning the Masters at this
point because just to where his games at current.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
But the Q School is kind of watered down too,
because you got to basically earn more points to the
Corn Ferry Tour than you do the Q School. You
know what's the Q School. It's Qualifying School the thing. Yeah, yeah,
you actually go to. It's a several stage step. It
costs four thousand dollars or it did and maybe more
than that now, and you go to they take a

(01:53):
number of players and ties to the next stage and
to the third stage and then they give out like
fifty cards or forty cards or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
It used to be more, it's a lot less now,
you know, it does feel mentioning Corn Fairy Tour. If
you know, if I was the PGA Tour. I would
think that would be a great way to get eyes
on a product and all of a sudden make it
way more marketable than it was. If Brooks Koepka was
playing a full season of corn fairy golf, all of
a sudden, you've got way more eyes.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, the one thing the PGA Tour is waiting for
us to see how many events Tiger plays on the
Champions Tour and how many events they're going to have
to take off of tate delay and put on real teav.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
You had Tiger on the Champions Tour and Kopka on
corn Faerry, I would watch three times as much golf.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
You and Stephanie would have even more golf to watch.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, she would enjoy that more than me.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
All Right, stop spurs and thunder coming up.