Sports business analyst Joe Pompliano sits down with six-time golf major champion and LIV Golf star Phil Mickelson. Joe talks with Phil about the future of professional golf, how LIV Golf has evolved since he joined in 2022, how coffee saved his life, and much more. Enjoy!
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Phil has truly been remarkable. The way he goes from big picture, to making great videos, to competing, to having a great relationship with his wife and kids. He truly is such a remarkable man and with Greg moving on, this is the golfer leader for evolution in golf for at least the next decade or so.
To his point a lot of the tv contracts are until 2030. The full transition Phil is talking about kind of needs that time to come.
Hopefully it all comes together sooner somehow. But his timeline I very much agree with.
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Phil, who probably always was an interesting and engaging person, was bottled up by the PGA tour and the media to make seem a specific way. Now with LIV and his full on move into social media, Phil has been able to show a very likable, engaging and interesting person. Go Lefty!
PGA gives Tiger millions with PIP award for promoting golf. Greg Norman or even Bryson have promoted golf more than Tiger has. PGA mission is strictly domestic. LIV is more forward thinking and has a more global mission. Why is NFL playing games overseas? F1 is popular and global. Soccer is global except in the US. MLB has the world baseball classic. LIV haters don’t get that PGA is the one that is holding back golf because it wants the monopoly.
PGA is now the minor league , and it is their fault
Phil is most hated because he says what most people in PGA are scared to say it
It was all good ,and then someone offered him a fortune ,dont believe this crap ,tiger globalised golf ,these guys are only doing it for the money ,nothing else
LIV got on the YT golf world early and the PGA really missed out…. and they won't get a mulligan.
I like the direction LIV is going with naming Rick Shiels an ambassador, content creater, interviewer. It will absolutely bring the younger YouTube audience into LIV. The PGA should take notice and do the same thing with the Bryan Brothers as ambassadors and PGA content creators.
Golf is in real trouble. First, the PGA Tour is not perfect and there are many things that they could change that would make them a better product. LIV can buy players, but it can't buy an audience. LIV will never get the TV ratings or fan attendance numbers the PGA Tour got at its peak, which never was a lot anyway compared to the NFL, which gets ten times the viewers. Golf is a niche sport, with a relatively small audience. TGL and LIV will eventually fail because they are niche diversions of a niche sport. LIV may survive because they don't care about ratings or making a profit since they're using a bottomless pit of Monopoly money. Time will tell if the PGA Tour can survive all of this, Here's hoping that they can.
What's the difference between a World Golf Championship event, a LIV event and an elevated event?
LIV golf is bad for golf. Good things should be only in america so world comes to america. Otherwise america is done!!!
YouTube is fabulous. I seldom watch the PGA anymore and I'm a boomer. The Bryan Bros., Grant and all the others.
PGA is like old technology. Horse and buggy vs the new options.
PGA Traitor , Thanks for ruining Professional Golf for the faithful American viewers all these decades ! Very selfish and unpatriotic , you sellouts should never be allowed to play for the US in any international events !
Wow so the PGA made Phil pay millions of dollars for media rights for himself and he had to pay to commentate.. what a joke. Anyone who is a fan of Youtube golf should be team LIV. I bet 99% of the people who were negatively commenting on Rick Shiels' video don't know about that.
This evolution Phil talks about may or may NOT happen. I think the PGA Tour needs to cut at least 10 tournaments from their schedule. There are so many events where the top Players are MIA, so why will people keep buying tickets and supporting them..
LIV has a spot where you can take a nap and play putt putt. Sounds riveting.
If Phil thinks LIV has the best format, I wonder if he thinks that the Majors should go to no cut 54 hole formats with music and a team aspect? If he did that, I would believe him. But the biggest tournaments in pro golf, he wants them to stay with the PGA Tour format. Interesting.
I just don't know how you can't like Phil Mickelson. Truly one of the most entertaining athletes of all time
I was thinking of a Bryson John Rahm match. It would be at Olympia Fields Golf Club. The match that did not happen because Derrick Bard beat John Rahm in the 2015 U.S.G.A. am. Tournament. In fact bring Scotty, and Colin Morikowa also because they played in that tournament. I think that would be fun.
Phil is the second greatest player of his generation. But, I just can't see Tiger winning a major after turning 50 this year like Phil did. Phil has had greater longevity than anyone I can think of.
The older generation love the you tube golf content
Great point that they can live somewhere in the world rather then forced to live in USA
I’ll be 55 this year…. Always watch the “5’ majors and a few others…. Right or wrong ….. LIV or pga …. The “split” has left me very uninterested in golf. Greed on every level …. I’m very comfortable and always updated my equipment…. No more. Settled in on what makes golf fun and gonna stick with that. Will still watch the majors …. But more so I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the lpga tour last year…. It seems universal.
With the change in College sports and NIL, how in the world does the PGA control a players NIL?
PGA needs go away ! Why didn't players work to gain control as it should have been players controlling tour ! It was supposed to be that way! Merger of Liv PGA terrible for golf they will fix ! It will suck ! All other sports except tennis golf are fixed ! Now they want them too!
You sound like an AI robot. This is truly the saturation of content, like what is the point of this? Try sounding human next time man
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Gambling addict Phil sold out for Saudi money….have lost all interest and respect for him….He has lost his legacy….good riddens
Ultimate insult to LIV would be giving world ranking points to the TGL😅
The irony is that he doesn't really give a shit about golf!
At the Masters practice rounds, Phil invited my two children inside the ropes of the practice green. He was very welcoming and created two fans for golf 30 years ago. The PGA tour is boring….Sheffler is great, McIlroy, Morikawa, too. Not sure of any I'd tune into on a Thursday-Saturday of a regular tournament…yawning.. Go Phil and Bryson!!
The music industry is NOT doing well. Phil Mickelson you MUST call Rick Beato and get informed
We went to the LIV event in Dallas in September '24 with 4 kids. My wife was thinking we would just stay for 2 or 3 hours, but there was so much to do that everyone was having fun and we stayed even after the golf ended.
Thanks to Phil for being brave enough to make the move and see the long term big picture for the players. Initially he took a tough hit from Sponsors etc. So many were opposed to anything that competed with the PGA Tour. He is indeed a great ambassador and gentlemen.
He sold himself to the company store whocares what he thinks.
Asian Tour has improved a lot recently with more LIV players at certain events, the courses are more exotic and fresh/interesting rather than seeing the same PGAT courses year in year out
LIV bots have moved from twitter to YouTube I see.
Oh really? Wanna bet?