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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Today, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said, it's time for
me to go. I am going to resign after my
contract expires at the end of the twenty twenty six season.
So he'll have the rest of this year and through
the FedEx Cup and likely the President's Cup in twenty
twenty six, and then he'll go play a whole bunch
of golf and travel and spend his millions.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Did he give a reason why he.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Just doesn't want to do it anymore? It's just done,
is he?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
How old is he?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Sixties? It's early sixties.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
There comes a time when everybody's just had enough, and
that time usually comes quicker than normal when you have
the cash.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm sure he has saved.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Commissioners of sports make several million dollars a year, and
if they've got a brain cell in their head, they
probably say most of it. And I'm sure he has.
And he probably doesn't have to worry about where his
next meal is coming from. And he lives on a
palatial state and gets to play tpees he saw grass
any time he wants to.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So life is good for mister j Monahan.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, well you know where he can't play.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Though, Yes, he can, Well, he's not a member, but
he can. He's played augusta many times. That's because he
was the commissioner. Because he was the commissioner.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
He can't.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
He can't just hy well, he probably just can't roll
up there and say put me on. He has to
play with a member, you know, even past champions have
to play with a member. They're honorary members, but that
honorary status, they're non paying members unless unless your name
is Tiger, wants to play a member that is sponsoring
(01:35):
him has to be on property.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And the only time that I think.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That there's an exception of that is in March and
April or February and March when they first opened the club.
Players who have been given invitations to play in the
tournament can come for practice rounds without an escort.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
No, you have that much power to turn away, Arnold
jas You.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Think what turn around premiers and presidents if you're not
there with a president.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
With Can I see your Augustine members cards?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh you don't have one, sury Sturdy? Sorry, what was
your title again?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Oh? I'm President of the United States. Sorry, Oh, I'm
sorry President, I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Sorry, And go back into the Washington Road.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
In Sorry, President Biden, No sorry, turn around, turn let
the door get you on the way out exactly now.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
The guy that's going to take over the PGA Tour
is a guy named Brian Rolapp. He is a NFL
executive and he's going to become CEO, and I guess
president slash commissioner of the PGA Tour. And I guess
a lot of the guys on on the PGA Tour
know who he is, because they're all sending out tweets
today about how happy they are that that.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
He's out there. I guess.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
But I've got a quick J Monahan take here that
I think is something we should pay attention to. Okay,
I think he's won. I think he won the ultimate
battle with Live. There may still be a few more
defectors that want to go play the x Phibition Tour.
And I think what Bryson's doing with his YouTube channel
to promote golf is a good thing.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And even John Rahm and Cameron Smith have come out
recently and said, yeah, the Live Tour wasn't what we
envisioned that it would become. It's pretty easy to be
in the top ten here since we're the best players
on the tour and we don't really have a lot
of competition. And it's what I've been saying for a
long time. They have fifty four guys playing, and they
play fifty four holes, and forty four of them would
(03:29):
struggle to make a check on the PGA Tour. The
majority of the players and it's Koepka, it's Rom de Chambeau,
Patrick Reid, cam Smith, handful of others, Joaqe Neeman, They're
going to win and be in the top ten of
most of those live events. And Jay Monahan has played
the long game brilliantly and basically he has no defections
(03:51):
from the mainstream guys on the PGA Tour has not lost,
Scottie has not lost, Jordan Spieth or jt A. Rory,
all those guys are going to play on the on
the regular tour. And I think even if the live
people in Saudi Arabia continues to fund that. Yeah, there's
(04:14):
this Jose Ballistaire that won the US Amateur and played
in the US Open this year.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
He's going to live. Who cares, I could care less.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm sure he was encouraged by Sergio Garcia to do
that because Sergio hates everything about the PGA Tour for
it made him rich, famous and wealthy. But now he
wants to go. He wants to defy Jay Monahan. He
wants to define the tour. Go play exhibition golf for
the rest of your life. No one cares. Where the
greatness is defined is on the PGA Tour. And j
(04:42):
Monahan has won the long game here he is. He
has waited them out. And I don't know that the
ultimatum has actually happened yet. And right now there's a
lot bigger fish to fry than figuring out the live
PGA Tour thing. But when he was in Saudi Arabia,
apparently President Trump said, this deal gets done in five
minutes if you disband live or make sure that the
(05:06):
live guys can come back. But there can be lift
can't play opposite the PGA Tour. My guess is that
conversation's been had because when you get ahead of state
who believes in something, whether it's him or anybody else,
and wants to get it done, especially something as trivial
as this, it usually gets done. And so but I
think you know, Jay Monahan got beat up a lot
(05:27):
the last two or three years over this, he had
to expedite the increasing purses, and he had to do
a lot of things to appease the players so they
wouldn't leave. But the majority of them have said no
to the temptation of just taking the money. And most
of them are multimillionaires anyway, and it's not like their
lifestyles would change. I still don't know why John Rahm
(05:48):
did it. I understand why Koepka did it, but he
is Scott Buyer's remorse. And my guess is next year
he's going to try to figure out a way to
come back, and many others may do.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
The same thing in the next four or five years.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I think that's where you're kind of at least giving
Bryson a little bit of leeway and especially Dustin Johnson,
because they've at least come out and flat out said why.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
But like you said, John Rahm, don't we.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Know what John rom study was about the money?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Just come out and say, hey, I'm doing this.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
To bet, But I don't listen.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I understand three hundred million dollars is a huge paycheck,
or two hundred or one hundred or ten. I don't
care what the number is. I mean, I would not
say no to a lot for ten million dollars. If
it was legal and moral, I would probably do it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Unless it's live.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
For ten million, i'd go broadcast live events. So what
we have it on four hundred and ninety nine thousand
or forty nine nine million and change. Yes, we have
the number, but yeah, we would. We would do a
lot of things for money. But I don't have a
seventy five or hundred million in the bank. If I
had one hundred million dollars in the bank, there's a
lot of things I could say no too, because I
(06:56):
don't need the hassle.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I don't need the criticism.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And that was my criticism with you know, Rom has
been a world champion for the last you know several years,
won and Open, a US Open, and it was one
of the top players on tour in ranked number one
in the world. I don't know what his bank account
looks like, but I'm sure it's got ten digits in
it at least. And whatever his net worth is, Yes,
(07:18):
three hundred million dollars is generational wealth, but so is
fifty million dollars. And so with seventy five or whatever number,
he's worth about sixty to one hundred million dollars. Yeah,
I mean, you've already got that much in the bank
at some point, aren't you just becoming greedy? And I know,
if they offer it to you should take it. But
he's what thirty years old, He's probably gonna play golf
for twenty more years, just sitting there doing nothing. If
(07:41):
he never wins another event, that number is going to
triple before he retires.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Well, it actually did. Yeah it was.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
It was one hundred million dollars, but when he decided
to switch to live it jumped up to two hundred
and eighteen million.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Okay, so he was worth a hundred million, So what
do you need another one hundred million for? I mean,
if the world comes to an end, money's not going
to matter anyway. So it's to me if you're can't
remember who it was, Harold Varner the Third. Harold Varner
the Third's been a journeyman player all his life and
they offered him twenty million, and he said yes. Harold
Varner very seldom wins events, was not in the top fifty,
(08:18):
occasionally got into some of the secondary events. They offered
him twenty million. He comes from a family of ten
who slept in the same room when they were kids.
I totally understand his motivation and his rationale, but I
don't understand somebody that's got seventy five million dollars in
the bank thinking, then you another one hundred hundred and
fifty just so they can go play exhibition golf and
tarnish their legacy. And I think Jay Monahan's won this
(08:41):
battle in Congrats to him for doing all of that,
and now Brian Rollop has the task of making sure
that that stays the same way.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
All right.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
In the six o'clock hour, we're.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Going to talk more about the pacers and do they
have a chance without Halliburton the Durance Weepstakes, and we've
got more coming up in the next segment.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's five point forty seven on the ticket.
Today, PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said, it's time for
me to go. I am going to resign after my
contract expires at the end of the twenty twenty six season.
So he'll have the rest of this year and through
the FedEx Cup and likely the President's Cup in twenty
twenty six, and then he'll go play a whole bunch
of golf and travel and spend his millions.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Did he give a reason why he.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Just doesn't want to do it anymore? It's just done,
is he?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
How old is he?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Sixties? It's early sixties.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
There comes a time when everybody's just had enough, and
that time usually comes quicker than normal when you have
the cash.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm sure he has saved.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Commissioners of sports make several million dollars a year, and
if they've got a brain cell in their head, they
probably say most of it. And I'm sure he has.
And he probably doesn't have to worry about where his
next meal is coming from. And he lives on a
palatial state and gets to play tpees he saw grass
any time he wants to.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
So life is good for mister j Monahan.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, well you know where he can't play.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Though, Yes, he can, Well, he's not a member, but
he can. He's played augusta many times. That's because he
was the commissioner. Because he was the commissioner.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
He can't.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
He can't just hy well, he probably just can't roll
up there and say put me on. He has to
play with a member, you know, even past champions have
to play with a member. They're honorary members, but that
honorary status, they're non paying members unless unless your name
is Tiger, wants to play a member that is sponsoring
(01:35):
him has to be on property.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And the only time that I think.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
That there's an exception of that is in March and
April or February and March when they first opened the club.
Players who have been given invitations to play in the
tournament can come for practice rounds without an escort.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
No, you have that much power to turn away, Arnold
jas You.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Think what turn around premiers and presidents if you're not
there with a president.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
With Can I see your Augustine members cards?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Sir?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh you don't have one, sury Sturdy? Sorry, what was
your title again?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Oh? I'm President of the United States. Sorry, Oh, I'm
sorry President, I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Sorry, And go back into the Washington Road.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
In Sorry, President Biden, No sorry, turn around, turn let
the door get you on the way out exactly now.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
The guy that's going to take over the PGA Tour
is a guy named Brian Rolapp. He is a NFL
executive and he's going to become CEO, and I guess
president slash commissioner of the PGA Tour. And I guess
a lot of the guys on on the PGA Tour
know who he is, because they're all sending out tweets
today about how happy they are that that.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
He's out there. I guess.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
But I've got a quick J Monahan take here that
I think is something we should pay attention to. Okay,
I think he's won. I think he won the ultimate
battle with Live. There may still be a few more
defectors that want to go play the x Phibition Tour.
And I think what Bryson's doing with his YouTube channel
to promote golf is a good thing.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And even John Rahm and Cameron Smith have come out
recently and said, yeah, the Live Tour wasn't what we
envisioned that it would become. It's pretty easy to be
in the top ten here since we're the best players
on the tour and we don't really have a lot
of competition. And it's what I've been saying for a
long time. They have fifty four guys playing, and they
play fifty four holes, and forty four of them would
(03:29):
struggle to make a check on the PGA Tour. The
majority of the players and it's Koepka, it's Rom de Chambeau,
Patrick Reid, cam Smith, handful of others, Joaqe Neeman, They're
going to win and be in the top ten of
most of those live events. And Jay Monahan has played
the long game brilliantly and basically he has no defections
(03:51):
from the mainstream guys on the PGA Tour has not lost,
Scottie has not lost, Jordan Spieth or jt A. Rory,
all those guys are going to play on the on
the regular tour. And I think even if the live
people in Saudi Arabia continues to fund that. Yeah, there's
(04:14):
this Jose Ballistaire that won the US Amateur and played
in the US Open this year.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
He's going to live. Who cares, I could care less.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm sure he was encouraged by Sergio Garcia to do
that because Sergio hates everything about the PGA Tour for
it made him rich, famous and wealthy. But now he
wants to go. He wants to defy Jay Monahan. He
wants to define the tour. Go play exhibition golf for
the rest of your life. No one cares. Where the
greatness is defined is on the PGA Tour. And j
(04:42):
Monahan has won the long game here he is. He
has waited them out. And I don't know that the
ultimatum has actually happened yet. And right now there's a
lot bigger fish to fry than figuring out the live
PGA Tour thing. But when he was in Saudi Arabia,
apparently President Trump said, this deal gets done in five
minutes if you disband live or make sure that the
(05:06):
live guys can come back. But there can be lift
can't play opposite the PGA Tour. My guess is that
conversation's been had because when you get ahead of state
who believes in something, whether it's him or anybody else,
and wants to get it done, especially something as trivial
as this, it usually gets done. And so but I
think you know, Jay Monahan got beat up a lot
(05:27):
the last two or three years over this, he had
to expedite the increasing purses, and he had to do
a lot of things to appease the players so they
wouldn't leave. But the majority of them have said no
to the temptation of just taking the money. And most
of them are multimillionaires anyway, and it's not like their
lifestyles would change. I still don't know why John Rahm
(05:48):
did it. I understand why Koepka did it, but he
is Scott Buyer's remorse. And my guess is next year
he's going to try to figure out a way to
come back, and many others may do.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
The same thing in the next four or five years.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I think that's where you're kind of at least giving
Bryson a little bit of leeway and especially Dustin Johnson,
because they've at least come out and flat out said why.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
But like you said, John Rahm, don't we.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Know what John rom study was about the money?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Just come out and say, hey, I'm doing this.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
To bet, But I don't listen.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I understand three hundred million dollars is a huge paycheck,
or two hundred or one hundred or ten. I don't
care what the number is. I mean, I would not
say no to a lot for ten million dollars. If
it was legal and moral, I would probably do it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Unless it's live.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
For ten million, i'd go broadcast live events. So what
we have it on four hundred and ninety nine thousand
or forty nine nine million and change. Yes, we have
the number, but yeah, we would. We would do a
lot of things for money. But I don't have a
seventy five or hundred million in the bank. If I
had one hundred million dollars in the bank, there's a
lot of things I could say no too, because I
(06:56):
don't need the hassle.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I don't need the criticism.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
And that was my criticism with you know, Rom has
been a world champion for the last you know several years,
won and Open, a US Open, and it was one
of the top players on tour in ranked number one
in the world. I don't know what his bank account
looks like, but I'm sure it's got ten digits in
it at least. And whatever his net worth is, Yes,
(07:18):
three hundred million dollars is generational wealth, but so is
fifty million dollars. And so with seventy five or whatever number,
he's worth about sixty to one hundred million dollars. Yeah,
I mean, you've already got that much in the bank
at some point, aren't you just becoming greedy? And I know,
if they offer it to you should take it. But
he's what thirty years old, He's probably gonna play golf
for twenty more years, just sitting there doing nothing. If
(07:41):
he never wins another event, that number is going to
triple before he retires.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Well, it actually did. Yeah it was.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
It was one hundred million dollars, but when he decided
to switch to live it jumped up to two hundred
and eighteen million.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Okay, so he was worth a hundred million, So what
do you need another one hundred million for? I mean,
if the world comes to an end, money's not going
to matter anyway. So it's to me if you're can't
remember who it was, Harold Varner the Third. Harold Varner
the Third's been a journeyman player all his life and
they offered him twenty million, and he said yes. Harold
Varner very seldom wins events, was not in the top fifty,
(08:18):
occasionally got into some of the secondary events. They offered
him twenty million. He comes from a family of ten
who slept in the same room when they were kids.
I totally understand his motivation and his rationale, but I
don't understand somebody that's got seventy five million dollars in
the bank thinking, then you another one hundred hundred and
fifty just so they can go play exhibition golf and
tarnish their legacy. And I think Jay Monahan's won this
(08:41):
battle in Congrats to him for doing all of that,
and now Brian Rollop has the task of making sure
that that stays the same way.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
All right.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
In the six o'clock hour, we're.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Going to talk more about the pacers and do they
have a chance without Halliburton the Durance Weepstakes, and we've
got more coming up in the next segment.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's five point forty seven on the ticket.
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