Colombia’s Camilo Villegas Restrepo competes in round 1 of the men’s golf individual stroke play of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Le Golf National in Guyancourt, south-west of Paris on August 1, 2024. (Photo by Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)
CV: It’s impossible to get everybody thinking the same the same way, especially when the PAC is 16 players, and we all have different goals in life, everybody has different interests. It’s very hard to get everybody on the same page. It’s impossible to get everybody thinking the same way. I just hope we can kind of remove ourselves from the equation and think about the game long term, because things have been shaken up in the last few years, and a lot of people might see it as something negative, but I truly believe the game of golf will win, and at the end of the day, everything should be fine.
Going back to the changes, just to give you a little bit of background on why I like them, because we got into a big discussion. The question was posed, what does having a Tour really mean? And we got to a point where, man, I mean it just, I think the Tour a little bit kind of over-promised a bit and under-delivered when it came to playing opportunities, just because things got a little bit out of whack.
We were at our max having miserable experiences on the golf course with fields of 156. Twenty-eight percent of the tournaments didn’t finish Thursday or Friday. That’s unacceptable. Sixty-something percent or more of tournaments were warming up in complete darkness. First three groups teeing off at first light and then finishing five minutes from dark. Having 156 players on a range sucks. You cannot enforce pace of play.
I played Korn Ferry last year. In Oklahoma, I was first off and I walked into player dining at the turn and ordered an omelette because there’s two groups that still have to tee off. I told (KFT President) Alex Baldwin that 156 players fields absolutely suck, it’s the worst experience. If you ask players, depending on what tier they’re at, they’re gonna say, Oh, I don’t care. don’t care about playing three hours and 20 minute back nines. I don’t care about warming up in the freaking dark. We need to remove ourselves from the situation. The ‘I don’t care’ doesn’t count. That is not a better product.
We needed to deeply analyze who the best performers are and who the worst performers are and going by history. We needed to cut back and we needed to reshuffle a little bit…
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