Jordan Spieth spoke to the media in advance of he AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, where he was asked about his game and also gave a reaction to the new of the massive deal made between the PGA Tour and Strategic Sports Group.
Yeah I was um excited to get off to a good start the fact that the season um the season technically FedEx season started in Maui makes me feel really good about a solid finish I didn’t I I kind of wish that I had played in the last few weeks because the
Weather in Texas was kind of alltime bad um but I came out to California a little early and I’ve been trying to kind of get my game back to where I left it in Maui and it feels really good um it’s just a matter of going out and executing
Now but uh yeah I’m excited about what this season um you know can be for me um I feel like when I’m when I was in Maui I felt like when I was teeing it up I had a chance to win I feel that way you know sitting here Wednesday afternoon
Now and it’s it’s a good feeling to know that if I go out and do what um what I feel I’m perfectly capable of doing uh there’s nothing holding holding me back right now so just got to try to get better each week well I think the the coolest the your question being
Specifically about their funding I think the coolest thing about it is the players are now owners um so not only you know do they do they benefit with the tour they now they now are Equity owners so they want to push it themselves they want to make the product
Better themselves not that they didn’t before but you directly benefit from owning a piece and um so I think that part is maybe the coolest part of the funding obviously having you know some big guns behind us uh some backup um and the strategery that this group offers was actually something something that
Was very important um when we were looking at it so to have I think it’s like 200 years of sports owning experience um the idea they can help navigate you know our future um how content will be consumed when our our next media deals are up stuff like
That to have these Partners in perpetuity is uh I I don’t think that can be overlooked you know you talk about the funding but really the the strategies that they can have in and navigating that space I think will be very important I don’t think that it’s needed
I think the positive would be a unification but I think that like I mentioned before I I just think it’s something that is almost not even worth talking about right this second given how timely everything would be to try to get it um figured out um but the idea is
That we have a strategic partner that allows the PGA Tour to go forward the way that it’s operating right now without anything else with the option of other investors whether them or somebody else that’ll just be a decision um with them obviously being uh you
Know the the active talks um but I think the the short answer is we don’t have to um and I think the long answer is the positive there is a is a unification but um like I’ve mentioned earlier we have members that feel strongly on both sides
And so until that would be able to be solved and that would be number 10 on the list of 10 things despite um any government interference on on what they’ve talked about being a lengthy process um you know it it would be a a situation that should
Be we should try to have um but I’m not sure you know if or how or or when it would get done
