The Players Championship 2024 (*** NO LIV DISCUSSIONS ***)

[TiScape]

6 minutes ago, stinger_gc said:

 Also wouldn’t this technically be the 1st major??

Technically no. I’d say more like, practically the 1st major  😊

[unskinnybop99]

12 hours ago, Scotty1140 said:

Which Champions Tour players do you feel should be playing this week?

I would go with Vijay Singh....this was (still is?) his home course. 

[Ferguson]

16 hours ago, mosesgolf said:

Scotty Scheffler ftw.  An epic year for Scotty if his putter behaves.

 

I'm leaning toward keeping my eyes on drying paint. 

 

[MattyO1984]

Can't think I have ever specifically tuned into a Jay Monihan press conference before now but here I am...

 

 

[King_Slender]

5 minutes ago, MattyO1984 said:

Can't think I have ever specifically tuned into a Jay Monihan press conference before now but here I am...

 

 

 

I mean, how many changes can he mention (telecast with more shots, better online platforms, more stats, bigger purses, etc.) without saying "We should have listened to the players that left." 

 

I hope they find a way to bring things back together.  I'd love to see some crossover with the Tours and have the Sentry Tournament of Champions be a tournament for PGA and LIV winners. 

[TheMoneyShot]

Come on Jay, spit us some details😂

[Maine Golfer]

players only love you when they're playing!

[mosesgolf]

56 minutes ago, Ferguson said:

 

I'm leaning toward keeping my eyes on drying paint. 

 

Sounds like a lot of fun!!!!

[Duct Tape]

25 minutes ago, Maine Golfer said:

players only love you when they're playing!

This could be the first Stevie Nicks quote (with Lindsay B) ever on a golf forum.  Well done!  🤓😀

[gvogel]

11 hours ago, PedronNiall said:

Both love and hate the course. Enjoy the challenge, but on occasion it's yielded a few results from well executed shots that weren't very sporting with the excess shaving all the areas near the greens get. Certainly not quite in the old school vein that way. 

 

Look forward to seeing who can deal with the pressure, though. 17 is obscenely brutal, and 18 has eaten up a few dreams of better things as well. Scheffler is the man to beat if that putter holds out. 

Glad you said that.  I think that the course is tricked up - a couple clowns' mouths and windmills would be not out of place.  I actually enjoyed the golf last week, and i feel that Bay Hill was a very stern test.  A great champion won.  And, as much as I like Rory, it was quite interesting to see him struggle on the front nine.

 

So give me Bay Hill for the win, but this field is better.

[gvogel]

44 minutes ago, King_Slender said:

 

I mean, how many changes can he mention (telecast with more shots, better online platforms, more stats, bigger purses, etc.) without saying "We should have listened to the players that left." 

 

I hope they find a way to bring things back together.  I'd love to see some crossover with the Tours and have the Sentry Tournament of Champions be a tournament for PGA and LIV winners. 

I'm not in favor of Rory's "more cut throat Tour."  Maybe some of the full field events should be cut just a little so that the players can get around the course easier, but I really enjoy a nobody who has a great tournament for a week.  Or a young up and comer who gains enough points to make the more select events.  Full field events are plenty cut throat.

[King_Slender]

8 minutes ago, gvogel said:

I'm not in favor of Rory's "more cut throat Tour."  Maybe some of the full field events should be cut just a little so that the players can get around the course easier, but I really enjoy a nobody who has a great tournament for a week.  Or a young up and comer who gains enough points to make the more select events.  Full field events are plenty cut throat.

 

They really should just cut the regular field to 120 players. I see no reason to have 144 player fields. 

[dfwgolfer92]

The level of PR management anytime this guy speaks is simply astounding, reminds me of every Congressional hearing

[woahnelly]

 

 

 

[Ferguson]

1 hour ago, Duct Tape said:

This could be the first Stevie Nicks quote (with Lindsay B) ever on a golf forum.  Well done!  🤓😀

 

Lindsay Buckingham - so deep, so artistic, so mysterious, so spiritual and so musically talented. 

 

One might conclude he was the ultimate soulmate for women of the late 1970s. 

 

 

 

[CircleC29]

 

Edited March 12 by CircleC29

[Titleist99]

State of the PGAT address was masterful by Jay Monahan.

 

Not much that I didn't know or predicted already.

 

1. The Tour doesn't need PIF, the tour wants the revenue though. Again, no one find revenue like JM.

 

2. Jay Monahan is Commissioner of the PGAT and CEO of PGAT Enterprises. JM ain't going nowhere.

 

3. As a reminder JM brokered a media deal with NBC, CBS, ESPN, Disney, etc....for $7B and the tour brokered an international media deal with 43 partners for $2B. They're collecting , they ain't payin"

 

 4. The PGAT has a line of potential investor. Contrary to what some would have you believe the tour is thriving. PGAT is just fine.

 

5. I'm surprised that they didn't announce a deal today, they must be waiting on the DOJ. PIF is not forthcoming with requested information.

 

Amended: JM brokered a deal with SSg for $3B.

Edited March 12 by Titleist99

[Maine Golfer]

yawn, to the presser. 

 

I say live in the now and enjoy the PGA for what it is (if you enjoy Liv do the same with it). We could be listening to merger ideas for 5 years, I swear. Just listening to Jay say nothing or various players talk about less tour cards is a waste of my time. Most likely the PGA Tour is almost the same format in 2025 at this rate and this drags on.  

[bcjim]

1 hour ago, King_Slender said:

 

They really should just cut the regular field to 120 players. I see no reason to have 144 player fields. 

Full fields (156 when daylight allows; 144 other times) are a hugely important aspect of tournament golf. Everyone has to show up ready to play and drama is built in, pressure is built in. Nobody is playing ceremonial rounds like we see in these no cut/low cut events and, of course, on the other tour.

[tiderider]

43 minutes ago, Ferguson said:

 

Lindsay Buckingham - so deep, so artistic, so mysterious, so spiritual and so musically talented. 

 

One might conclude he was the ultimate soulmate for women of the late 1970s. 

 

 

 

or he just had really good cocaine ...

[Pops99]

This guy Jay is paid 18 shmill a year to talk in front of a mic for ~1 hour a year and basically just filibuster through the entire thing and then get pissy when he's asked one sort of difficult question? Soft. 

[Creedo77]

2 hours ago, Duct Tape said:

This could be the first Stevie Nicks quote (with Lindsay B) ever on a golf forum.  Well done!  🤓😀

Not when nbc kept using 17 as the theme for the players 2 years. Man they played that commercial over and over 

[Creedo77]

2 hours ago, gvogel said:

I'm not in favor of Rory's "more cut throat Tour."  Maybe some of the full field events should be cut just a little so that the players can get around the course easier, but I really enjoy a nobody who has a great tournament for a week.  Or a young up and comer who gains enough points to make the more select events.  Full field events are plenty cut throat.

They’re all hypocrites 

 

Wyndham Clark.piggy backed Rory’s comments and that guy was a nobody 2 to 3 years ago

 

Playing the KFT back in 2018….oh, look what he did with his opportunities. That same pathway he’s now looking down on. 
 

[bcjim]

13 minutes ago, Pops99 said:

This guy Jay is paid 18 shmill a year to talk in front of a mic for ~1 hour a year and basically just filibuster through the entire thing and then get pissy when he's asked one sort of difficult question? Soft. 

He probably has 1 or 2 other duties is my guess.

[Maine Golfer]

13 minutes ago, Creedo77 said:

They’re all hypocrites 

 

Wyndham Clark.piggy backed Rory’s comments and that guy was a nobody 2 to 3 years ago

 

Playing the KFT back in 2018….oh, look what he did with his opportunities. That same pathway he’s now looking down on. 
 

Yep pretty much. Its so stupid.  We could end up with a world tour and bankrupt B grade or KFT events that go under after 2 seasons. These people don't get it. Lucas Glover gets it but he's not entitled, he earned his way back to the top! 

 

 

[trebleclef]

1 hour ago, Maine Golfer said:

yawn, to the presser. 

 

I say live in the now and enjoy the PGA for what it is (if you enjoy Liv do the same with it). We could be listening to merger ideas for 5 years, I swear. Just listening to Jay say nothing or various players talk about less tour cards is a waste of my time. Most likely the PGA Tour is almost the same format in 2025 at this rate and this drags on.  

Agree. It's all changing.

 

I was listening to the Kostas/McCord podcast and they mentioned NBC was tired of Golf Channel and would probably sell it to Netflix or Amazon or somebody. Champions Tour will most likely be gone due to SSG wanting to cut costs, etc.

 

The Pro Golf world is being disrupted big time.

[TiScape]

50 minutes ago, Creedo77 said:

They’re all hypocrites 

 

Wyndham Clark.piggy backed Rory’s comments and that guy was a nobody 2 to 3 years ago

 

Playing the KFT back in 2018….oh, look what he did with his opportunities. That same pathway he’s now looking down on. 
 

Pretty typical ‘human nature’ behavior. Get ur house on the hill and then start a “save the hills” campaign to stop further building. 
 

*def not condoning it, but ya see it all too frequently.

Edited March 12 by TiScape

[Maine Golfer]

43 minutes ago, TiScape said:

Pretty typical ‘human nature’ behavior. Get ur house on the hill and then start a “save the hills” campaign to stop further building. 
 

*def not condoning it, but ya see it all too frequently.

What sends me was the Fedex cup fall was really good, I was very engaged seeing who got the last spots.

 

I get it, I doubt these top pro's watch with the passion the rest of us have. But they are talking out their ***s , its hard and cut threat to get a card. 

Edited March 12 by Maine Golfer

[rblmp32]

Hard not to like Scheffler this week if he keeps putting like he did at Bay Hill.  That foot action drives me bananas but man the guy can really play.  

[PracticeSwinger]

Usually a good tell when someone wants to pull the ladder up behind them.