How practical is Rory McIlroy’s ‘world tour’ dream? | Golf Today | Golf Channel

Eamon Lynch and Damon Hack aren’t sold on Rory McIlroy’s stated dream of a golf “world tour” and are unconvinced that it could generate enough revenue and keep players happy. #GolfChannel #GolfToday #RoryMcIlroy
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You mentioned Rory malor did have some comments overnight to the media that are gathered in Dubai some very strong thoughts from Rory on the future of what he sees the professional game looking like he said going forward if everything is on the table venues have to be a big

Part of the consideration we need to make sure the courses are worthy of the players who are going to be competing my dream scenario is a world tour with the Proviso that Corporate America has to remain a big part of it all Saudi Arabia too that’s just basic economics but

There is an untapped commercial opportunity out there investors always want to make a return on their money revenues at the PJ tour right now are about $2.3 billion so how do we get that number up to four or 6 billion to me it’s by looking outward they the PJ T

Need to think internationally spread their wings a bit I’ve been banging that drum for a while you think about Rory’s thoughts there cuz the thought was he was going to be a little a little bit quiet a little more focused on the inside the ropes but clearly he has some

Thoughts outside the ropes yeah that’s one of Rory’s weaknesses he tends to answer questions that he’s actually asked this is uh The Logical conclusion of the framework agreement Beyond normalizing money from autocratic human rights abusers this is ultimately what the game of golf is looking like you The

Logical conclusion is a Silk Stocking tour that exists above everything that’s out there right now that it’s simply for the elite players and that tour will make stops with all of the stakeholders and that’s clearly going to include Saudi Arabia it’s clearly going to include Europe other Global tours that

Will have to be ripped into it and then select events on the PGA tour but doing that does have enormous consequences that are knock on effects because there are going to be tournaments on all tours but particularly in the United States that already struggle to get Elite

Fields for for big purses yeah and they’re that’s not going to get any easier for them you’re going to have sponsors who are being asked to pay Penthouse prices and thinking they’re getting a product that’s quite a few flowers lower than that and just the the

Media right deal that the PGA Tour still has six years left on that’s $6 billion dollar of Revenue tied to a product that they may no longer be delivering and they can argue potentially that a new product is better but it’s still inconsistent with what they have sold in

The past so the potential KnockOn effects just from a business standpoint throughout the game of what this reality would look like uh or enormous but it does seem to be the logical conclusion of where this game is going to go I guess if you’re you at the tippy tippy

Top of the elite in the game if you’re Rory maroy who grew up in Hollywood Northern Ireland who lives in Florida but is also you know building a house in in England and who lived in Dubai for four years and who is a truly Global

Player you know a lot of the PJ tour you know membership I would think they don’t want to fly all over the world and and play their golf I imagine they would rather patronize the good old USA a little bit more than flying all across

The all across the world to to far you know wide you know events now Rory also talked about though maybe elevating some of those really old school national championships like the Irish open the Australian Open for example which was won by The Big Three You Know Jack won

The Australian Open Arie Gary play elevating those things I can understand he thinks there’s untapped Market globally but I wonder what you know Joe Smith PJ tour 92 on the uh on the money list or on the FedEx Cup standings or even 42 in the standings how he would feel about a far-flung

Global World Tour there’s clearly a sentiment now that the top players don’t really care what number 92 thinks possibly not what number 42 thinks and there’s a an reasonable debate to be had on this idea of a global tour because it it checks all the right boxes it makes

This noise about you’re growing the game you’re bringing it to places where there is actually a rich history of the game in places like South Africa and Australia and in Asia and attempting to leverage that but that’s what the DP World Tour has been doing for the last

15 years and that tour has not exactly been flush with financial success from that there is an argument to be made that the only place there is one market where golf can be monetized with an audience of scale and that market is in the United States it’s it’s it’s proven

Time and time again now if there’s a different business model that that’s out there that can support that fair enough but is that business model actually leveraging local businesses and corporations or you just simply asking the Saudi to pay $30 million to hold an event in Australia it’s a great question

Because other sports are facing similar questions tennis you know there’s been talking about how that sport is going to survive and move forward and whether there’ll be Saudi Arabia investment in tennis as well from a professional standpoint I think it’s fascinating because just the the thought in the

Phrase Global Golf World Tour it does remind some of what Greg Norman talked about in the 1990s in what he purports live golf to be now what do you say to to that is this just another version of what Greg Norman has talked about for 30 plus years well Liv has proven the

Fallacy that you can make a successful business out of taking golf around the world that’s why so many of their tournaments are played in the United States they’re they maybe an audience that will go watch on the ground in Australia but there is no business support for for Le Golf out there and

All of this comes around to a much smaller number Damon which is 24 25 26 that’s the number of weeks a year the best players in the world are willing to work so if they want to talk about going around the world if they want to talk about supporting the elite PGA Tour

Events that are the Signature Events you’re talking about the majors and the players and potentially adding team events in there as well Roy mcenroy said perhaps there could be as many as eight team events during the course of a year in a future schedule that’s an awful lot

To put into that 22 24 25 week period that these guys are going to work there are going to be a lot of losers in that scenario so much shifting sand so many unknowns one thing we know not everybody’s going to be happy however golf looks like in 2024 much more in

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