October 22, 2024 • 8 mins
Former PGA Tour winner Hudson Swafford jumped to the LIV golf league but now has been relegated from the Saudi-backed league after a poor 2024.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Craig Way with you, Cameron Parker, the producer alongside Glad
to have you with us as well, and we're with
you each and every weekday from two to five. I
was going to respond to feedback on the on the
text line, however, I've got to reauthenticate a couple of
(00:22):
things in the here. But every it seems like every
few weeks now I'm getting these things about you got
to change the password blah blah blah blah blah that
locked me out a few minutes ago, And so I'm
going to do that on the in the meantime, I
wanted to ask you and and coming up in a
few minutes, Greg Tapper, managing editor of Dave Campbell's Texas
Football Magazine, will join us. We're also going to hear
(00:42):
some conversations that Will Matthews from our long run radio
network broadcast crew has with the players. We have that
coming up as well. But I wanted to ask you
about this. What is the name Hudson Swafford mean to you.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Hudson Swafford, a PJ tour golfer, went to the University
of Georgia. He's part of a really good Bulldogs class.
I think he was out there with Brian Harmon in Harris,
English and a handful of others got to the tour.
I believe he won once or twice on the tour
before defecting to Live Golf Tour, where he really hasn't
(01:21):
been heard of from too much lately. But I guess
if you're bringing him up, that means he's back to
the news for something. Was he just talking trash to Texas?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
No? No, Hudson Swafford is in a unique position. He
apparently has been, as he says, quote unquote, rejected by
Live Golf and banned from returning to the PGA Tour.
He's a pro golfer without a home.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh that's a shame.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So he's not going to return to Live Golf after
a dismal twenty twenty four season. He tied for thirty
six in the first event of the year and he
did no better than that. He didn't get better that,
and the bosses of the Salui Back Tour have opted
not to renew his contract. Compounding his misery is the
(02:18):
fact that, even if he wanted to return to the
PGA Tour, he's ineligible for another twelve months due to
having competed in Live, which would consider which it considers
an unauthorized event. So he opened his PGA Tour account
twenty seventeen by winning you mentioned he won, He won
the Career Builder Challenge in California. He had to wait
(02:41):
more than three years for a second win. That was
that the Kraalis Pandicana Resorting Club Championship. Then he went
into the American Express in twenty twenty two, so he
had gained some momentum in the States, but decided to
join Live Golf for its inaugural event and had his
PGA Tour members ship suspended indefinitely as a result. Then
(03:03):
he had a hip injury which knocked him out for
a large chunk of last year, and he was one
of two wild cards this season. His wild card status
saved him from the drop despite finishing in the relegation zone,
but his contract has not been renewed, so he's booted
out of Live. He's not able to return to the
PGA Tour for another year. He could go to the
(03:24):
Asian Tour International Series, which is serving as a pathway
to Live for whoever finishes in the top of those standings,
but he's he apparently doesn't know where he's going to go,
what he's going to do.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, I guess that that hip injury probably, you know,
obviously a big part of being able to play good
golf is you know, have a healthy hip. And obviously
looks like he probably didn't either recover a full hundred
percent when he came back in time. And you know,
I think they have a lot of pressure with their
contracts to be able to play through injury or play
(03:59):
in these events and not miss events and just came
back and you know, it was in the bottom of
the standing, so and it's tough. You know that that's
the thing with you know, you go and make this move.
And if you don't already have you know, a couple
of major championships or a lot of money in the
bank already, and you're because your banned from the PGA
(04:19):
Tour and something like this happens, all of a sudden,
your career looks completely different because if he was injured
on the PGA Tour, he could go through a medical
exemp list, right, and then you get a certain amount
of uh starts when you come back off the injured
list kind of and be able to you know, play
in these events, or at least work your way back
(04:40):
into these events through the corn Ferry Tour or other
PGA tours. Now there is still a pathway through, like
the Asian World Tour whatever, where if you win it,
you get a Lift Golf spot. But yeah, the negatives
of defecting from the PJ Tour in joining this Lift tour.
And he doesn't have the major championships to get himself
exempt into the Masters or the US Open or the
(05:02):
PJA or the British Open, like the Shambo or Koepka
or DJ or Sergio. So there's always a negative. Craig
was a negative. So I mean, I guess it was
a risk for Yeah, it sucks for for him to
be injured like that, but also you know, kind of
dug himself his own hole.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
See I didn't know Live Golf was doing it. I
thought that was like whoever wants to come, come one,
come all, because they were trying to make a name
of themselves, but even they have their own relegation. Yes,
part I suppose on the text line somebody brought up
you know, I mentioned Lyle Lovin and I said he
was with Julia Roberts. Somebody said, yeah, don't forget that
Lyle love It was married to Julia Roberts for about
nineteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, this is two years. Yeah crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I brought up on that Pizza Hut pizza about the
squid tentacles deep fried. Somebody said, isn't deep fried squid
tentacles basically just calamari. It's pretty close, right, because what
is what is kalamari? It's it's they just squidid. Yeah,
it's yeah. See I like kalamar. I do too, so
I think you would like that part of the pizza. See,
(06:02):
this is weird.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Usually I'm the one who's against these weird food things
and you are You're for it, but we're flipped here.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, I'll try most anything. I don't know about the
blood cake. So if you took the blood thing out
of it and it was just a deep fry, somebody said, hey,
that tastes like chicken blood, right, yeah, and he said
the funky cold Medina ghostfish. We're talking about that ghost
(06:31):
fish story there, And then somebody else said, hey, it
was only a matter of time before Live started weeding
out lower level golfers as they had bigger names with
their set number of players in each field, So do
have that set number for those fifty four whole tournaments?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, and you know, I don't know. I mean some
of these names, I still don't think they're I mean,
you still got guys that like, I don't know, I've
never even heard of, like Kieran Vincent, you know who
calls Urties Still you know other guys.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
If you haven't heard him. I know I haven't because
I know you pay great attention to Live because you
hate it so much. Oh, I don't hate it so
Rice and to Shambo kind of turned you. Now now
you're kind of kind of leaning toward the dark side.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I don't know if I'm leaning. I still didn't watch
a single event from from Living, don't. I don't dislike
Rising as much as I used to, that's for sure.
But yeah, last event swaffered from this thirteen over par
and the winners were eleven unders. I must say, well,
the PJA Tour, you have guys who missed the cut
and they are twenty something shots. But yeah, but it's
four days and you have to qualify for these events,
(07:33):
and Live Golf Tour there is no qualification.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's why I thought it was just like come one,
come all, You're all.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They now have added more and more players and they
have their own little relegation system, which is interesting. You know,
it's kind of kind of like European soccer mixed with whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Couldn't you go and play corn Ferry, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Because that's only by the PJA Tour. I'm saying he was.
It has to be a he had not gone to
Live Golf Tour and this happens where he loses his
PGA Tour card. So he can still earn it back
through the corn Ferry Tour or the Mackenzie Tour, or
one of the other millions of tours, whether it's in Australia,
the Sunrise to whatever. But because they're owned by the
(08:12):
PJA Tour, he's obviously banned from those, so we can't
qualify through that. So really the only way he can
kind of get back in is if he goes through
the Asian Tour. I think he could technically go through
maybe the lower left of DP World Tours, but anything
with the PGA Tour he's screwed because he can't get
that card.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I guess it's kind of like Major League Baseball players
when they don't have a home in the American and
National League, they wind up going to Japan to play,
or Korea work their way back.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
We'll see if that's the case.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Or independent ball, right, yep, play indie ball absolutely all right.
Up next, we talk football in the Lone Star State,
both of the collegiate and high school variety, with Greg Tepper,
managing editor of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine. When we
continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zoner, the
iHeartRadio app
Craig Way with you, Cameron Parker, the producer alongside Glad
to have you with us as well, and we're with
you each and every weekday from two to five. I
was going to respond to feedback on the on the
text line, however, I've got to reauthenticate a couple of
(00:22):
things in the here. But every it seems like every
few weeks now I'm getting these things about you got
to change the password blah blah blah blah blah that
locked me out a few minutes ago, And so I'm
going to do that on the in the meantime, I
wanted to ask you and and coming up in a
few minutes, Greg Tapper, managing editor of Dave Campbell's Texas
Football Magazine, will join us. We're also going to hear
(00:42):
some conversations that Will Matthews from our long run radio
network broadcast crew has with the players. We have that
coming up as well. But I wanted to ask you
about this. What is the name Hudson Swafford mean to you.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Hudson Swafford, a PJ tour golfer, went to the University
of Georgia. He's part of a really good Bulldogs class.
I think he was out there with Brian Harmon in Harris,
English and a handful of others got to the tour.
I believe he won once or twice on the tour
before defecting to Live Golf Tour, where he really hasn't
(01:21):
been heard of from too much lately. But I guess
if you're bringing him up, that means he's back to
the news for something. Was he just talking trash to Texas?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
No? No, Hudson Swafford is in a unique position. He
apparently has been, as he says, quote unquote, rejected by
Live Golf and banned from returning to the PGA Tour.
He's a pro golfer without a home.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh that's a shame.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So he's not going to return to Live Golf after
a dismal twenty twenty four season. He tied for thirty
six in the first event of the year and he
did no better than that. He didn't get better that,
and the bosses of the Salui Back Tour have opted
not to renew his contract. Compounding his misery is the
(02:18):
fact that, even if he wanted to return to the
PGA Tour, he's ineligible for another twelve months due to
having competed in Live, which would consider which it considers
an unauthorized event. So he opened his PGA Tour account
twenty seventeen by winning you mentioned he won, He won
the Career Builder Challenge in California. He had to wait
(02:41):
more than three years for a second win. That was
that the Kraalis Pandicana Resorting Club Championship. Then he went
into the American Express in twenty twenty two, so he
had gained some momentum in the States, but decided to
join Live Golf for its inaugural event and had his
PGA Tour members ship suspended indefinitely as a result. Then
(03:03):
he had a hip injury which knocked him out for
a large chunk of last year, and he was one
of two wild cards this season. His wild card status
saved him from the drop despite finishing in the relegation zone,
but his contract has not been renewed, so he's booted
out of Live. He's not able to return to the
PGA Tour for another year. He could go to the
(03:24):
Asian Tour International Series, which is serving as a pathway
to Live for whoever finishes in the top of those standings,
but he's he apparently doesn't know where he's going to go,
what he's going to do.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, I guess that that hip injury probably, you know,
obviously a big part of being able to play good
golf is you know, have a healthy hip. And obviously
looks like he probably didn't either recover a full hundred
percent when he came back in time. And you know,
I think they have a lot of pressure with their
contracts to be able to play through injury or play
(03:59):
in these events and not miss events and just came
back and you know, it was in the bottom of
the standing, so and it's tough. You know that that's
the thing with you know, you go and make this move.
And if you don't already have you know, a couple
of major championships or a lot of money in the
bank already, and you're because your banned from the PGA
(04:19):
Tour and something like this happens, all of a sudden,
your career looks completely different because if he was injured
on the PGA Tour, he could go through a medical
exemp list, right, and then you get a certain amount
of uh starts when you come back off the injured
list kind of and be able to you know, play
in these events, or at least work your way back
(04:40):
into these events through the corn Ferry Tour or other
PGA tours. Now there is still a pathway through, like
the Asian World Tour whatever, where if you win it,
you get a Lift Golf spot. But yeah, the negatives
of defecting from the PJ Tour in joining this Lift tour.
And he doesn't have the major championships to get himself
exempt into the Masters or the US Open or the
(05:02):
PJA or the British Open, like the Shambo or Koepka
or DJ or Sergio. So there's always a negative. Craig
was a negative. So I mean, I guess it was
a risk for Yeah, it sucks for for him to
be injured like that, but also you know, kind of
dug himself his own hole.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
See I didn't know Live Golf was doing it. I
thought that was like whoever wants to come, come one,
come all, because they were trying to make a name
of themselves, but even they have their own relegation. Yes,
part I suppose on the text line somebody brought up
you know, I mentioned Lyle Lovin and I said he
was with Julia Roberts. Somebody said, yeah, don't forget that
Lyle love It was married to Julia Roberts for about
nineteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, this is two years. Yeah crazy.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I brought up on that Pizza Hut pizza about the
squid tentacles deep fried. Somebody said, isn't deep fried squid
tentacles basically just calamari. It's pretty close, right, because what
is what is kalamari? It's it's they just squidid. Yeah,
it's yeah. See I like kalamar. I do too, so
I think you would like that part of the pizza. See,
(06:02):
this is weird.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Usually I'm the one who's against these weird food things
and you are You're for it, but we're flipped here.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, I'll try most anything. I don't know about the
blood cake. So if you took the blood thing out
of it and it was just a deep fry, somebody said, hey,
that tastes like chicken blood, right, yeah, and he said
the funky cold Medina ghostfish. We're talking about that ghost
(06:31):
fish story there, And then somebody else said, hey, it
was only a matter of time before Live started weeding
out lower level golfers as they had bigger names with
their set number of players in each field, So do
have that set number for those fifty four whole tournaments?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, and you know, I don't know. I mean some
of these names, I still don't think they're I mean,
you still got guys that like, I don't know, I've
never even heard of, like Kieran Vincent, you know who
calls Urties Still you know other guys.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
If you haven't heard him. I know I haven't because
I know you pay great attention to Live because you
hate it so much. Oh, I don't hate it so
Rice and to Shambo kind of turned you. Now now
you're kind of kind of leaning toward the dark side.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I don't know if I'm leaning. I still didn't watch
a single event from from Living, don't. I don't dislike
Rising as much as I used to, that's for sure.
But yeah, last event swaffered from this thirteen over par
and the winners were eleven unders. I must say, well,
the PJA Tour, you have guys who missed the cut
and they are twenty something shots. But yeah, but it's
four days and you have to qualify for these events,
(07:33):
and Live Golf Tour there is no qualification.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
That's why I thought it was just like come one,
come all, You're all.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
They now have added more and more players and they
have their own little relegation system, which is interesting. You know,
it's kind of kind of like European soccer mixed with whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Couldn't you go and play corn Ferry, you know.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Because that's only by the PJA Tour. I'm saying he was.
It has to be a he had not gone to
Live Golf Tour and this happens where he loses his
PGA Tour card. So he can still earn it back
through the corn Ferry Tour or the Mackenzie Tour, or
one of the other millions of tours, whether it's in Australia,
the Sunrise to whatever. But because they're owned by the
(08:12):
PJA Tour, he's obviously banned from those, so we can't
qualify through that. So really the only way he can
kind of get back in is if he goes through
the Asian Tour. I think he could technically go through
maybe the lower left of DP World Tours, but anything
with the PGA Tour he's screwed because he can't get
that card.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I guess it's kind of like Major League Baseball players
when they don't have a home in the American and
National League, they wind up going to Japan to play,
or Korea work their way back.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
We'll see if that's the case.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Or independent ball, right, yep, play indie ball absolutely all right.
Up next, we talk football in the Lone Star State,
both of the collegiate and high school variety, with Greg Tepper,
managing editor of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine. When we
continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zoner, the
iHeartRadio app
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