Smylie Kaufman Talks Challenge of Piquing Interests in Sports

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00:00Perhaps the most complex sport to try to solve this problem across all the different things

00:05we just highlighted, you know, broadcasting it, managing commercial load, uh, trying to

00:10manage pace of play across, you know, again, to your point, multiple different arenas.

00:15I mean, there are 18 different arenas, you know, versus just one for any other major

00:20professional sport. Uh, so, you know, that, that the gambling aspect, but also how it ties into

00:26on-course spectators and individual players. It's, it's, it's a, it's a really complex one.

00:32Um, and I think it boils down to, you know, in my mind, it's like, I think people are

00:35really always going to watch the majors, the Ryder cup, the players championship.

00:41And I think they're warming up to things that feel very different. Like TGL. It's just like,

00:47I think it goes back to something we've talked about a lot. It's like, just when they're lower

00:51profile tournaments, just sell us that type of, you know, don't, don't, don't say it's something

00:57different than what it is. I always will find doesn't matter what golf term it is. You and I

01:03both will enjoy it. Yes. A hundred percent. Like I was really excited to watch Andrew Novak and

01:08Sam Stevens, two guys. So I was looking forward to see if they'd be able to get it done, but

01:12I can understand Joe Schmoe who just wants to watch, um, whether it be Sergio Garcia and John

01:18Rahm battle, um, in a past farmer's insurance open, how that would be good TV. I mean, yes,

01:24we miss the live players and that's where, you know, I, I go back and forth as a PGA tour player

01:30and how frustrated I get from the whole situation that we're in. But I mean, if we have to just,

01:37I mean, the signature events are going to be good. Right. But I haven't talked to many PGA tour

01:42players that are, that have really liked the signature events and the layout of it. There's

01:47very few that are like, yeah, this is great. Um, and not many others though. A lot of veterans

01:53hate it. A lot of, of course the middle guys hate it. I just think that the old system was,

01:59was, was a little bit better. Yeah. I mean, I, I, I think again, with a less informed perspective

02:05than the one that you have having talked to these guys, it seems to me that anytime you're trying to

02:11solve a problem in a reactionary way, it's not as good as you coming up with something that,

02:17you know, is, is being devised because you want to create more entertainment value. You want to

02:21create something that, that has merit for competition. Like if what they're trying to do is

02:26create closed shop events to get guys money because they don't want them to go to live.

02:30That's a pretty reactionary move that they're making. The guys do it though, but players used

02:36to, you know, go play events they wanted to play and that fit their schedule and fit their games.

02:41Now they can't do it. They have to play the signature event schedule,

02:44regardless if they liked playing at these golf courses or not.