The former chief executive of the EuroPro Tour has called on the major tours to come together to improve the developmental structure of professional golf.
Dan Godding made the plea during an appearance on this week’s episode of The bunkered Podcast.
In a candid, wide-ranging interview, Godding addressed the shock closure of the EuroPro Tour. Despite being an official satellite of the European Tour, offering the biggest prize funds in European development golf and being broadcast to over 500 million people globally, the tour was forced to fold due to “the economic landscape of increasing costs and the changing habits of the worldwide audience”.
Its exit from the game has left a large void for players trying to establish a foothold on tour and, whilst other circuits such as the Tartan Pro Tour and Clutch Tour will be expected to plug some of that gap, Godding is in doubt that they shouldn’t be left to do it alone.
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“I always use the phrase ‘no castles in the sky’,” he said. “If you had a skyscraper and you took out the first three floors, it would collapse. The fact is, with golf right now, there’s an awful lot of focus and money at the top – but you really need to look at the bottom and make sure that the talent is coming up.
“At the end of the day, for all of these tours, the product is the player. If you don’t have a Tiger Woods, you don’t have a golf tour.
“I just hope that the big tours all get together and say, ‘Look, we need a developmental structure’.
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