Exploring Tiger Woods' Impact and Future in the PGA Tour

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00:00We'll be right back.

00:04Keep the hot topics rolling around.

00:06Some things that we really like here, Joe Ranieri, are nostalgia.

00:09I get caught up in it.

00:10Like you watched the game yesterday at Rickwood Field.

00:12Loved the nostalgia.

00:13I love walking in the ballpark and say, boy, 25, 30 years ago,

00:16do you remember the home run that was hit here?

00:18I used to walk in the Veterans Stadium before it was knocked down and look up

00:21into the 600 level and see where a home run had a little star on it that said

00:26S, where Willie Starge was.

00:28Now, 30, 40 years ago, that would have been an unbelievable home run.

00:31In golf, we tend to do the same things, and it's with Tiger Woods.

00:36Now, a lot of the topics we picked today, Joe Ranieri, have to do with money.

00:40Tiger Woods now on the PGA Tour, as old as he is right now and non-competing,

00:45he is still a draw.

00:47So if you're looking for the PGA Tour to say how can we keep ratings good

00:51and moving in the right direction when more and more people are deflecting

00:54and going to live golf, let's get Tiger Woods in more of these events

00:57that he wouldn't qualify for.

00:59So a lifetime exemption is on the table for exceptional lifetime achievement,

01:04which means in those elevated tournaments with the $20 million purse,

01:08if Tiger says he would like to play in any one of those tournaments,

01:11he's automatically accepted.

01:13The thing I do like here from the PGA Tour is it's not taking the place

01:17of maybe a regular qualifier who could have used that spot

01:20and thought he could compete in that tournament.

01:22So let's start here.

01:23The PGA Tour says, hey, Tiger, you want to show up and play?

01:26Do it.

01:27We would love to have you because the ratings will show higher

01:30for that weekend's tournament.

01:32This is just unbelievable.

01:35You mean like they made the exemption, the USGA,

01:38for him to play in this year's U.S. Open and he didn't make the cut

01:42because he looked it was actually painful watching him swing the club

01:46and walk around.

01:47Like what are we doing here?

01:48Let me ask you this here, though, Donny.

01:50Let me ask you this.

01:51If there was no live golf, would this even be on the tape?

01:56Would we be talking about this right now if the Roms

01:59and the Deschambots and the Kupkas were actually still on the PGA Tour?

02:04Would they be offering a lifetime exemption that they didn't do

02:08to Jack Nicklaus, they didn't do it to Gary Player,

02:10they didn't do it to Arnie, they didn't do it to guys

02:12that built the sport here?

02:14Would they be doing it or is this strictly not so much nostalgia

02:18as it is nobody's watching because half of our best players

02:23are on another tour we can't talk about?

02:26It's such a good question because we don't technically know the answer

02:30even if we really do.

02:31Like the PGA Tour, as much as they say,

02:33what are they, non-profit as an organization,

02:35but somehow finding more profit to give these players

02:37with these eight elevated tournaments, which I like

02:39because it brings more good golfers before and after some of these majors,

02:43but they're not doing it to be nice guys saying,

02:45Hey, Tiger, man, thank you for all you've done

02:48because if, let's just say, Tiger Woods didn't draw anything

02:51and could barely swing a golf club, they'd say,

02:52Hey, Tiger, if you want to start the tournament off with a tee shot

02:55with like Jack Nicklaus does at the Masters,

02:57you can do that every weekend if you want,

02:59but they want him to play not because it's like,

03:01Hey, man, it's good to have Tiger out there.

03:03Hey, man, it's good for business here and puts more money

03:06in our pocket on the next season.

03:07So I do understand completely what you're saying.

03:10It doesn't really move the needle for me,

03:12but it's just interesting that out of nowhere, it's like,

03:13Hey, look, we've never done this before.

03:15You're such a great golfer.

03:16You can play in these high-priced tournaments.

03:18And I guess knowing that the other players are like, yeah, good.

03:21That means, you know, ratings will go up maybe more versus the future.

03:24But Tiger's not even going to play.

03:26It's like, oh, man, you got a Tiger in this?

03:28He's going to win this tournament again.

03:29I can't get first place.

03:30Like, no, not anymore.

03:32Yeah.

03:33It just feels like it's a,

03:35they're milking every last ounce of Tiger Woods popularity

03:39until they can't get it anymore.

03:42And it's not because he's competitive.

03:44It's not because he still can win a tournament here or there.

03:47They're doing it for their own benefit.

03:49And listen, if I'm Tiger Woods, man, like you got other, like Tiger,

03:54like move on, man.

03:55You want to show up to Augusta once a year?

03:58Great.

03:59But I mean, having this guy show up,

04:01not because you think he can actually be competitive,

04:03that just you hope somebody buys a ticket or watches the event.

04:07You're using Tiger Woods for every last ounce of credibility that you have

04:12left PGA.

04:13And that to me is just wrong.

04:15By the way, here's what I need out of Tiger Woods.

04:18Obviously competing in a tournament, which would be nice,

04:20but can we drop the Sunday red?

04:21Like the little shrimp logo on the hat and the Jersey.

04:24Can we just go back to the Tiger Woods logo at Nike,

04:26get them back in that Sunday red.

04:28Like that would be more nostalgic than him actually playing in some

04:30tournaments.

04:31I just can't stand a Sunday red at it.

04:33By the way, did anybody buy that?

04:35Like I don't actively golf at this point, but anybody go out and like,

04:38you know what?

04:39I'm going to get a fresh new Sunday red shirt to go play this Saturday out

04:41here on the local Muni.

04:43I don't think that happened here.

04:44Now talking about Tiger Woods showing up to golf courses very soon in our

04:48future.

04:49You know,

04:50it's probably showing up on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

04:52and PGA tour events.

04:53That's Charlie woods.

04:54How about this?

04:55Usga championships.

04:57He did qualify for his first tournament there.

05:00I believe it was medalist in his local that he had to qualify for this

05:03event sooner than later.

05:05Like, are we going to see like a, a Bronnie James, LeBron James,

05:08I'm going to hang around long enough to play in a golf tournament with my

05:11son here.

05:12What are the thoughts here on Charlie?

05:13Who probably is a better God for the tiger right now.

05:15Well, I, you know, behind the scenes,

05:18Tiger is probably spending an awful lot more time these days of coaching his

05:22kid and expecting him and hoping that he becomes the heir apparent to what

05:28his dad built here.

05:30And all indications are the kid loves it.

05:32The kid is extremely talented.

05:34Listen tigers.

05:36If you remember when tiger came up,

05:38it was tiger's dad that was pulling all the strings.

05:41So, you know,

05:43Tiger is going to be pulling all the strings for Charlie here.

05:46And if he has any early success,

05:49then we're going to be talking about three or four decades of tiger woods

05:53and, and family here dominating the PGA tour landscape.

05:57Yeah.

05:59Yeah.

06:00Like what happens if his son is like, let's just say 18 years old,

06:02maybe plays a year or two,

06:03like Tiger did at Stanford and turns pro and goes, Hey dad,

06:06go into the live golf tour.

06:08And he's offering me a check of $600 million right off the bat.

06:11Ooh,

06:12that would be a struggle in the woods household at that point right now.

06:15But it is kind of interesting to see because when you are,

06:17let's just say tiger woods, it's tiger woods and Jack Nicholas, right?

06:20Greatest golfers of all time, pick or choose each one that you want here.

06:23But if you look at tiger woods, right?

06:25Having a son like, Hey, he's going to be a good golfer.

06:27I cannot imagine the amount of pressure.

06:29Same thing like Ronnie James.

06:30Like you are just expected to be dominant.

06:33Ooh, maybe your dad would have hit that shot.

06:34Your dad would have hit that.

06:35By the way,

06:36how early do we see a sponsor's exemption for Charlie woods on the tour

06:40here?

06:41Yep.

06:42Yeah.

06:43Well, it's so it's an anomaly because usually the game's greatest in any

06:48sport,

06:49their offspring aren't even remotely in the same ballpark and how hard it is

06:54to get that.

06:55The only one I can think of B would be Griffey Griffey senior and Griffey

06:58junior.

06:59Yeah.

07:00Everybody else, father, son combinations.

07:02It never, never happened.

07:04So I can't wait to see how this works out.

07:07Yeah.

07:08It's like, dad's a billionaire.

07:09Like just give me the black MX card.

07:10I'm going to play Xbox.

07:11I have to work a day of my life here and look, you know what?

07:14I'm tiger woods, his kid, but good on Charlie.

07:16Let's see if he can pass his father in major.

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