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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, it's a golf show on the ticket, Mark
Valier and Keith Becker from MK Golf joining us on
the program. Before we get into the PGA Tour stuff.
One other thing on equipment and Keith ree might have
been this during the break. There's a lot of new
stuff coming in January, as there usually is. Some people
release their stuff in September, but that also gives you
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an opportunity to get some discounts on the twenty five
stuff before the twenty six models come out, and so
kind of give us an idea of what people are
looking at there and maybe what's in store for next year.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, there's a lot of new stuff coming out. Taylor
Made's got a new driver.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Ping there's pretty good too. Do what here?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
The new Tanneman driver is pretty good too. Yeah, yeah,
so I found it Scotty. We were talking about that.
So Scotty was playing the q I ten all the
blue face and he switched to the four D. So
he's switched to the new model.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, okay, Well he's doing all right.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
He's shot behind Matsiama and somebody else.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So Ping's got a new driver coming out. Still in
the G four to forty line, but they're doing their
max k. Callaway's got a new new driver come in
as Zuno, So a lot of new stuff coming.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
And so the the current stuff has some significant discounts.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Anyone that's that's releasing a new club, whether it's Callaway, Cobra,
they're all discounted significantly. So you're looking one hundred hundred
and fifty dollars off off of normal retail price and
it is the current model right now.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, all right, so we see what that when that
releases at the PGA show.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, we've actually so interesting enough, we've had all our
reps come by, so we've got to kind of put
our hands on some of this stuff. And I'm telling you,
some of it looks really really good.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
So I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
So if you want new stuff, you can pre order
for January. If you want the old stuff and get
a discount, or all the current stuff and get a
little bit of a discount. Now it's the time to
make that booking fitting.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Yeah sir, that's right, all right, And I wouldn't wait
too long because some of the uh, some of the
some of the last some of the last model stuff
kind of goes out of availability availability because I only
make like eight million of each you know, and stuff
and so hey, there's just like real cook. We have
a probably work with that was playing another brand and
Keiths just recently fit him in a new PNG four
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and he was like the other brands like poster Boy,
and this kid is loving this Ping four forty. I
see him regularly and he every time I see him,
he goes, I can't believe I've been I have not
been playing that Ping four forty instead of the other driver.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
All right, well, make your appointment to go to MK
Golf get fitting and get fitted and make sure you
check out all the new stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
All right.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Uh, the PGA Tour where is rumored to be going
through some drastic changes after this year, and they're trying
to come up with a formula to make, as Tiger says,
to make the PGA Tour as great as possible. Now,
I'm gonna have I have a Devil's have a good
argument right off the bat. I want to see golf.
In January, I watched the Sony Open, and I watched
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the Century before It's got canceled this year. It's usually
on after football on Sundays in the playoffs, and even
the American Express, which has been exclusively a Golf channel event,
because both networks that cover golf are doing football that
those weekends in the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I want to see that.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
I want to have an alternative to watch it, but
like a lot of people, they don't want to compete
with the NFL and especially the NFL playoffs. I hope
the Phoenix event is always on Super Bowl weekend and
finishes just a few hours before the football game starts.
For those who like four hour pregame shows, watch football.
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If for those who watch want to watch golf and
then watch football, that option is available and I don't
think the TV audience is going to differ from that.
But there is the talk that the American Express could
go away, that we would not be playing football, are
golf until late January, likely to start at Tory Pines
UH and then played play Pebble Beach in the in
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the hype week and then Phoenix that that finishes before
the Super Bowl begins. But that would eliminate three tournaments,
and the American Express is the old Bob Hope tournament,
which I think is traditional. There's also the talk about
maybe condensing the schedule, uh and some of the other
events on the PGA Tour might go away as well.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
What are your thoughts on all that?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Hmmm, Well, I do like that tournament in Kapolua myself.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I like the fact that they go to Hawaii.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
I think the players like going to Hawaii for a
couple of weeks and getting you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It's a warm weather. It's a warm weather structure.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
You know, you go from west to east as the
as the sun moves over, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I mean it's not a rocket signs change. I mean
it's you can't you can't go east to west.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Right, Well, it's still cold in Florida in January, it's
not as cool.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
We know, we go to the j Show every here.
It's a warm the week before we go, but it's
cold that week we go.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Well, that's planned. You know, what do you think, eith
I think they've got to do something. There's still some events.
And again, as someone who used to play college golf,
you know, it seemed like we always played in the
worst weather possible everywhere we went. So I don't feel
for them, But at the same time, you want the
best product available.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
So you've got.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
To eliminate as much as you can these tournaments where
they're playing in thirty forty degree temperatures and try to
do your best to schedule it around the weather.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Well, I think the star players and it's basically it's
Rory and Scotti, Scheffler, a lot of these players. One
of the things that Live was able to create for
some players is time with family, time off. And you've
got a few players like some JM and Tom Kim,
they're gonna play every week. They're single, They or their
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wives travel with them. They don't have kids yet. This
is their life. They're gonna play thirty events a year.
The majority of the PGA tour wants to play twenty
and I think, I think there's a lot of golfers
on the tour that are tired. And this is not
an excuse, and it's not a very good one if
it is. Yeah, they're tired of telling tournament executives why
they don't play their events.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And I can see why if you're not a very
good player.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
As far as tightness of a golf course, you don't
like a tight golf course and are a tight short
golf course, hilton Head is probably not a good place
for you to play. If you hit it down the
middle every time and you like hitting irons off, t's
go play hilton Head. But there are certain events that
they just don't want to go to, either scheduling because
their kids are in school, or it doesn't fit in,
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or they're ramping up for the majors. There was a
time a few years ago where Jordan Spieth played all
the FOD events and half the Texas events and had
to squeeze in the PGA and the Masters in between,
played like fourteen out of six seventeen weeks, and most
golfers think that's too much golf in order to be
playing at their optimum level. But I think there's there's
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got to be a way to do this. And I
like the fact that basically the Fall Series has become optional.
If you want to play in the Fall, there's events there,
but nobody's really obligated to play them.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Well.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
I think it's a combination of factors, but one of
them is time and money. I think that the players
are making so much money today that they don't have
time to spend it that they it's okay for them
not to play as much golf.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I mean, you can win. In Scotti's case, you know,
sixty million dollars.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
You know, in the last three years, he's one enough
to fund uh you know, not money for multiple states, yes, budgets,
you know, so.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That's probably a push there. But you know there's some
country they don't have his time and money.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
He's now got the money and now he needs more
time to to do other things fishing.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
But I don't think play traveling.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I don't think playing golf twenty weeks a year should
be a problem for any golf No, that's not that's
not the It's just that thirty or forty is too much. Yes,
I think I think thirty is an extreme. But and
the minimum is fifteen, and the majors count. So basically
you're playing eleven other PGA events to stay at PGA
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Tour events, to stay in and have your status remain.
But I don't see why you can't play sixteen PGA
Tour events and we're basically playing, you know, two a
month except for two a month for eight eight months,
and that shouldn't be too bad.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
That's what Jack Nicholas played.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
He played, he played two weeks on two weeks off
and centered those around the majors his entire life.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I think there's two sides of this.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You know, from the PGA Tours perspective, you know, more events,
more money. I think from the player's perspective, if you,
I think you somehow have to design it, and that's
kind of what the top players do most of them.
If you finish high enough consistently, you don't have to
play as many events, right because you may make enough money.
B you have enough world ranking points so you don't
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have to You can kind of play a little bit less.
But then you've got those guys that are a little
bit further down the list that have to play every
single event because a lot of times are either missing
the cut or they're finishing fortieth or fiftieth, and so
they're just trying to eke out as many points as
they can so they can stay on tour.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Well, look at guys like Corey Connors. Corey Connors became
a top twenty golfer in the world, and the springboard
was winning the Valaro Texas Open after Monday, qualifying to
get in. And if that opportunity goes away, is there
going to be another Corey Connors. That can do that
if you're only playing one hundred players in the field,
and if you're only playing thirty events instead of forty five,
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how does a guy like Corey Connors go from obscurity
to top fifteen golfer in the world without the opportunities
to play well?
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Just take Johnny Keifer for example, from Trinntonio. He's forty
seventh right now that Australian to miss going on if
one or two people may be passive inissement and he's
still forty eight januine first roles around. He's in the
Masters and the Masters, but rural ranking is not going
to get him anything. Is FedEx cup points. Now, So
who he gets in if he's already going to Hawaii,
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we know I know that already Sony. So he's going
to go to Sony and he's going to keep playing
in these events. He's got to get FedEx cup points
and to continue to be able to continue to play
because and he probably is going to get in the
Texas Open because it's because of his status here in
San Antonio.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
But he's got to get fed Ex cup points, right
all right?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
One last thing on this, the people at the Hero
World Challenge are getting World Cup Ranking points. There's only
twenty golfers in the field. Now, I'm not going to
apologize for Live, and I want Live to have as
much roadblocks in the way so it goes away at
some point. But Live golfers have fifty four in the field,
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and because they play a short field in fifty four holes,
that's why they were denied World Golf Ranking points allegedly.
I'm just I think they could have done anything in
the world in the PGA Tour, was going to in
the RNA, was going to keep him out of that.
But interesting that whoever finishes twentieth on a twenty man field,
it's going to get some World Golf Ranking points and
none of the live golfers are going to get any
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this year.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, that's just shocking to me. Again, I'm on the
same page as you.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
I think all three of us are on the same page.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
None of us are are Mega Live fans.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
But at the same time, I want to see the
best players in the world playing against each other. I
want to see them all playing in the majors, and
all we've heard, at least as far as I know,
is these fields are too small. They only play three rounds.
There is a team aspect, but a lot of it
has been the fields are smaller, it's not as competitive.
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And yet here we are, non PGA Tour event, non
sanctioned event, and we're getting world ranking points with a
twenty man field.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I just that's a little bit and critical, little head scratcher.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I think Tiger could have made the field better by
putting d Chambeau in that field.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yes, I see, it's a non sanctioned event.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah, I see no reason to not have d Chambeau
in that field instead of speak for example, right, I mean,
I like speed, but he's now like second to last,
you know, two, over and over whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
We've we've documented the Jordan speed saga.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
I hope he plays well. I hope he wins eighteen
tournaments this year, but he better fix his grip first. Yeah,
worst griping golf.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
But now Greg Norman, I think is the catalyst for
the reason why he's just not a team player in
the world of golf, in the big you know, I
think that was one of the I think that hurt them.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
I think that I think I think Greg Norman's belligerence
and fills to a certain extent too, has soured everybody
on Live the way they handled it, the way they
did it, and then trying to basically usurp the PGA
tour and what it's stead for for so long.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
I think Greg Norman's a catalysts there
Speaker 1 (12:51):
All right, COLTONHS news, Rory is gonna is playing in
the Australian event down Under and a couple other things
coming up next on the ticket