A new PGA Tour Schedule is coming. This is our suggestion for Mr. Brian Rolapp Sir
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Dominic Colangelo: He knows it doesn't matter what's under a hood. The only thing that matters is who's behind the wheel. Hello, welcome back to Under the Covers. This is a little bit of a different setting here. We to jump on because ⁓ our Brian Rollap, he seems to be kind of working out a new schedule for the PGA And we kind of wanted to give our thoughts on it and also give our thoughts on what we think the PGA Tour schedule should be. So a brief explanation, Rollap is ⁓ kind of wanting to cut down the number of tournaments over the year. ⁓ And when I'm washing it, I don't stick to it. I guess maybe taking away from live a little bit, how they're only doing what, eight per year, and also smaller fields as well. So it's a little bit more of a prestigious tournament to get into each week. had touched on it a couple weeks ago, and he was talking about how there's potentially gonna be a PGA Tour A and a PGA Tour B, almost like a major leagues, minor leagues situation. And I think that could be pretty good. for golf. I think it'll also be good for the guys who actually make it to the top level. So there's no cuts in these tournaments. They're almost guaranteed money each time. I'm assuming bigger purses. Do you know? We are your hosts. My name is Dominic and this is Matt we have with us.
Matthew Zampello: Dom, thanks for having me. ⁓ It is spring here in Texas. Spring has sprung. It is 75 degrees. It is perfect golf weather. I'm pulling 36 whole days every Saturday right now. It's fantastic here.
Dominic Colangelo: That's massive. Massive. We just hit 46 and it's been a sunny, beautiful day up here in Minnesota. So it's been great.
Matthew Zampello: Man, tough scene.
Dominic Colangelo: A lot of SimGolf for us up here. Glad to have you with us. Good pod for us today.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. So I think we're going to have a new type of PGA tour, right? I don't know if it's going be no cut. It might be small cut. So if you think about what we just saw at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, it was a field of like 90 ish guys, I think, ⁓ with like a cut line of, I think it was like 10 or 12 players that got cut. Yeah, it's pretty small. ⁓ know, talking to some people in the business, it sounds like
Dominic Colangelo: Pretty small.
Matthew Zampello: these tournaments are getting more more expensive to host, right? So we're just gonna use MasterCard as an example. ⁓ They put up millions and millions of dollars to host their Arnold Palmer Reputational, right? ⁓ What they don't want is two guys that might be younger, not really known, and the viewings and the rankings go down, or the ratings of the tournament go way down. because you're not, you don't have Scotty versus Rory, right? And you're not going to get that every week, but what these kind of tournaments do guarantee, right, is Scotty and Rory to have a better chance of competing. But if they don't, right, they're also in kind of prime time coverage where you can still show shots of Scotty throughout Sunday, right? Which is exactly what happened if they're on a palm or rotational.
Dominic Colangelo: Kind of like those ESPN featured groups. You kind of keep those big names on there.
Matthew Zampello: Exactly. Right. You want those guys to be, you know, what's drawing the people to the tournament, you know, Saturday and Sunday, there's a chance that, you know, some kid buys a ticket to come to the tournament. Right. And Scotty doesn't make the cut. And he's been waiting to see Scotty all week. ⁓ Exactly. Right. So ⁓ it's just one of those things that it makes sense from a business perspective. ⁓ Is it the best thing for golf? Probably not.
Dominic Colangelo: especially this year.
Matthew Zampello: being golf is kind of a meritocracy and the whole thing is right is Brian Harmon can go win the open championship one year, right? And beat everybody if he's hot that week, but that's probably not best for the corporate people hosting these tournaments. So unfortunately, I think the tour's going this way. It sounds like this is what Roll App is gonna bring out. I think they're gonna have obviously pathways to qualify for people to get into these tournaments, but it's gonna be a lot more difficult for somebody that's ranked. 120th in the world to be in one of these events.
Dominic Colangelo: you It's kind interesting, the comparison I would say is almost like NCAA basketball, where now they have, instead of just the best teams become the ⁓ conference champions for having the best record all year, they created a new single elimination tournament. And then, you know, if you win that, you have an automatic bid to the March Madness, but they're essentially making more opportunities for more games. This one, it's...
Matthew Zampello: for sure.
Dominic Colangelo: a little bit different where they're doing less opportunities, but they're kind of keeping those big name guys in the field. So that way, like you said, you can watch them and kind of keep going with your favorite names.
Matthew Zampello: Right. It's almost like the lore. I mean, the lore of March of Madness though, right, Davidson beating Duke, right? In the first round, like 16 upsetting number one. But in golf, but in golf, like, you almost don't want David to beat Goliath, right? You almost want Scottie to dominate. You almost want Rory to be in contention because that's what draws the viewers, right? ⁓ It's interesting how
Dominic Colangelo: Exactly. Anybody can win. Mm-hmm.
Matthew Zampello: They've positioned themselves of, you know, it goes back to like the whole idea that Tiger was essentially underpaid as a PGA Tour player his entire career. Now Tiger's going to be worth, or is probably worth almost a billion dollars now. But I know, but he, in theory, he was underpaid by the tour by, for how much he money and ⁓ notoriety he brought to other players and the tour itself, right?
Dominic Colangelo: That's a dorsness.
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ so it's just interesting. Brian roll up. If you're not familiar, right. He comes from the NFL. He was the guy who, think he created Thursday night football, if I'm not mistaken, like he was the TNF guy. ⁓ and now look how big TNF is right. Hosted by Amazon, ⁓ and, so he,
Dominic Colangelo: think you're right. That's still, it's still arguable if people like it or not.
Matthew Zampello: Well, yeah, we got to get Richard Sherman off the TV, but that's another whole podcast. Right. Like he comes from that, ⁓ that NFL model, which every game matters. Every game is a big game. There's no, there's no off weeks. Right. ⁓ And they really lean into their stars, right. Going back, look how much the NFL protects their quarterbacks. Right. And they, it's, it's bad for business. If, Patrick Mahomes.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, exactly. Anyways, continue.
Matthew Zampello: gets hurt and is off the field, right? When the chiefs are playing the bills. It's bad for business if Scottie Scheffler has an off week and misses the cut at the players championship. That's not what they want ⁓ from a long-term kind of sustainability model, if that all makes sense.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, it actually reminds me of... ⁓ I'm a Houston Texans fan. Is your eagle still right? If you watch football?
Matthew Zampello: Yes, you know, we're having a tough time. It seems like we're kind of getting rid of some people today, unfortunately.
Dominic Colangelo: Ha ha ha. So prime example, CJ Stroud's in the playoffs. Kyle Long had a really good podcast about this nowadays, if, so CJ Stroud played horribly. In any other game, you're benching him. Davis Mills is playing very well. It's bad for business to bench him because for some reason, if you bench a guy, that means he's not even useful ever. like, it would have helped the team. It would have been bad for the team in the long run, I guess, but like. It's one of those where there's so many different moving parts to it where business essentially rules every aspect of the game now. It's almost not even for the love of the game. Like the Masters is the only thing that's keeping it traditional and they're not really changing anything.
Matthew Zampello: Right. ⁓ But Masters has always been a very elite field. Masters only has about 100 people in the field. ⁓ But if you win a PGA Tour event, you got in the field, right? That was the way to do it. So if you won the John Deere Classic, you were in the Masters, right? ⁓ So, but a lot of like, to write like, even think with the Jordan Spieth, right? So Jordan Spieth gets all these sponsor exemptions, which basically means the companies that host these tournaments have a few spots that they can give to whoever they want, right?
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Exactly. You earn it.
Matthew Zampello: Now, if you're MasterCard, of course, you're to give one to Jordan Spieth, right? He's Jordan Spieth. So many people want to come out and watch Jordan Spieth. But the guy they probably should be giving it to is somebody like Blades Brown, who like could actually probably win one of these tournaments. Not saying Jordan can't win one of these tournaments, but he kind of has been stinky for the last 10 years. But we're we're close. We're getting back. We're so close. ⁓ But right, like Blades Brown.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Right? We love him. We love.
Matthew Zampello: Yes, he's known in our corner of the internet and the golf world very well. But to some guy that pulls up the TV on Sunday and Saturday to watch the golf sees Blades Brown or they want to watch Jordan Spieth. They want to watch Jordan Spieth. don't really want it. They don't they don't know or they really don't care who Blades Brown is. ⁓ It sucks, but I think this is where we're going. So, you know. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Can ask you a quick question about that? And hopefully it doesn't turn too much of a tangent. So nowadays YouTube golf and PGA golf is a very big conversation. What is your thoughts of ⁓ like a Lou Clanton who's been on Good Good and all those major channels, like giving him a sponsorship exemption in the hopes that if somebody doesn't really want to watch Jordan Spieth or know who he is, because they're super young and they only watch YouTube, if they give a... to one of these guys who's all over YouTube and is good in the social media space.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, I mean, you're you're 100 % on right. Eventually, you're going to see somebody like Brad Dahlke or Garrett or whatever get get a sponsor exemption into one of these tournaments. Now, I do think there's rules for the sponsor exemptions, but don't quote me on that. I do think they have to have some sort of inside the top X world ranking or something like. But I at some point, yes.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Luquan, maybe? There's gotta be.
Matthew Zampello: to some tournament is gonna say, you know what, we need a younger audience. And I think ⁓ the Barracuda Championship, which is the opposite field to the Open Championship, tried to give a sponsor exemption to the guy that has the teeth. What's his name? That's right, Grant Horvat. Yeah, because he couldn't film.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Grant Horvat, which he respectfully declined actually, because they wouldn't let him film, which is, I get it, it's very interesting, but the amount of content that could be given from there, I guess it would all go to Grant's channel, so maybe that's why they're maybe just trying to keep it in house, but.
Matthew Zampello: Well, yeah, the PGA Tour has super strict content rules on their events. And it's been a huge pain point for media channels that have come up. And Golf Channel has very exclusive rights to air a bunch of the PGA Tour stuff and gets into a whole thing. yeah, think you're going to see a day where one of these really good YouTube golfers gets into one of these events.
Dominic Colangelo: It makes sense. Yeah. You
Matthew Zampello: The Brian bros are kind of already doing that. Like the European tour already does that with, with the Brian bros. If you know in their smaller European tour fields, they let them into like the Danish championship and like the, the Thailand stuff and like whatever.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. I think like the, is it Dubai Invitational? Is that what it's called? I think they play it in that.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, there's one. There's a couple in Dubai that they all play. And yeah, I mean, it's going to happen for sure. Yeah, I'd be I mean, I think right. Like I think even during the Pro-Am tournament, some of those YouTube guys already play. So we're to see it. And I think it makes business sense and it makes sense to pull in that younger audience. But again, is the younger audience going to tune into a four hour broadcast or are they just going to go to YouTube and watch Grant Horvats recap of
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. It's a great point.
Matthew Zampello: what he did.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, where they hit a shot, they skipped to the next one, where golf, you gotta be way more patient.
Matthew Zampello: Right. Right, right, right, right. So yeah, all interesting stuff.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm, for sure.
Matthew Zampello: So I think we're going to do, ⁓ I wrote a little, ⁓ my ideal PGA tour schedule would be. So I'm going to run it. I'm going to run it through you and you're going to come up with some, ⁓ names ⁓ the tournaments that you think the name should be. ⁓ I think we need to get, first of all, get rid of all these like corporate sponsors in the front of the names. I don't think it's going to happen, but it would be fun and it'd be a fun exercise.
Dominic Colangelo: Right.
Matthew Zampello: while we go through what the PGA TOR schedule should be.
Dominic Colangelo: And we're not saying tournaments shouldn't be sponsored and they shouldn't be plastered everywhere, but it's take it out of the name, get some more creative names in there is what we want.
Matthew Zampello: Right, because they always go back and like Tiger Woods won the AT &T Championship. It's like, no he didn't. He won the Crosby Clambake when it was at Pebble. Right, he did not win. ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: Exactly. I love it.
Matthew Zampello: Alright, so week number one, ⁓ lots of rumors, Brian Rolap is gonna get rid of the Hawaii tournament, ⁓ but we need to bring the Hawaii tournament back. ⁓ So the tournament is the week before the Super Bowl. So if you remember, if you know, that off week before the Super Bowl ⁓ is the Pro Bowl, which nobody watches, so we're good there.
Dominic Colangelo: No, it's embarrassing.
Matthew Zampello: So this is Tournament of Champions. So only the champions from last year's events can get in here, which is what they used to do. It's at Kapalua, one of the best golf courses out there, super cool views. ⁓ ⁓ bring back the players, to get them feeling good, it's a two-man best ball tournament, right? You know, it's not super stressful, laid back, only, you know, 30, 40 guys in the field, ⁓ FedEx Cup points. because again, it's only the champions and kind of allows the players to work out the rest. So Hawaii Tournament of Champions, week number one, week before the...
Dominic Colangelo: I was kind of thinking like like a musubi match play maybe I Think that could be a good one The Maui match play have you had musubi before? I Might be mispronouncing that but it's it's rice spam wrapped in some in a I think it's like seaweed wrapped just like sushi, dude So good. Anyways, musubi musubi match play Maui match play
Matthew Zampello: I'm like, the Maui match play. I haven't, I don't even know what that is.
Dominic Colangelo: There's something there. There it is, nice. I like that.
Matthew Zampello: Mahalo match play. Yeah. Okay. So off week for the Super Bowl. Let the Super Bowl, let the Super Bowl do its thing. You know, we don't need to try to go against the Super Bowl. ⁓ Yeah. One week after the Super Bowl, Torrey Pines, right? So go to San Diego, you know, again, pretty chill. ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: Cause nobody wins in that situation.
Matthew Zampello: The weather's still really bad, mostly across country in February. And it kind of acts as like the season opener, right? It's a full field event. You get all the guys in there. There's FedExCup points. And you're kind of getting their first go at everything. ⁓ And all the guys kind of like Torrey Pines, right? mean, it's long. It is hard. ⁓ But it is a good kind of, you know, again, you get the views on TV. get the ocean and everything. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, we like to watch it too. I kinda like ⁓ playing with the California sunshine. Kinda give it like the sunshine stack. Or sunshine swing. There's something there. I'm gonna say that for a lot of these, but you kinda play around with something that the state or city is known for. Just kinda coming up with some random names. Instead of just, ⁓ like you said before, the MasterCard. Yeah, exactly. Nobody cares about farmer's insurance.
Matthew Zampello: like it. Yeah. Farmer's Insure. Yeah, yeah. ⁓ Okay, next up, we go up the coast. Go in the week after. Make these guys play a couple weeks in a row. ⁓ You know, LeBron doesn't like back to backs anymore, but we do. I was waiting for a laugh. ⁓ Pebble Beach. back, pulling some history back on the PGA Tour. Crosby Clambake. ⁓ if you're not aware, Pebble Beach used to be called the Crosby ⁓ Bing Crosby ⁓ used to host a bunch of actors, PGA Tour professionals, PGA professionals, ⁓ they would play this pro-amp.
Dominic Colangelo: That one took me a second.
Matthew Zampello: Now it's kind of been, this Pro-Am is still there, but it's been taken away a little bit. I think you bring back that heritage, right, of the tournament. do Pro-Am Thursday through Saturday, so you get three days of Pro-Am. Rotate between pebble, spyglass. Try to get Cyprus back in the rotation would be sick. ⁓ I you might be able to do it if you have a smaller field. ⁓ And then again, you have to kind of host this tournament ⁓ at this time.
Dominic Colangelo: to be huge.
Matthew Zampello: especially if Pebble is going to become one of the US Open anchor sites, you can't have the Open in June and then back to Pebble in August during the playoffs. You got to have it in January, February, etc. that's historically always when the Crosby Clambake has been. So, ⁓ Clambake, kind ⁓ of in the season.
Dominic Colangelo: I agree keeping the name, or sorry, not keeping it, reverting it back to Crosby Clambank just to kind of keep that history. I will add one more caveat. You cannot pay to get in. Like, for the celebrities. They have to be actual celebrities, not CEOs of Chipotle that nobody knows who the heck you are. know, like, yeah. Actually, celebrities, and then...
Matthew Zampello: for the celebrities. Right, I like that, I love that.
Dominic Colangelo: I, if I to guess, they probably were money hungry, but if I also had to guess, like maybe they didn't get enough celebrities on the field, so that's why they opened it up to Pang, but like, get as many celebrities as you can, I'm sure you can find some, and then, yeah, she would love it. Have Travis caddy for her, it'd be great. And then, ⁓ so that's one thing is actually get celebrities that we wanna see. Then second thing is actually show them on TV. So lately,
Matthew Zampello: Right. Get Taylor Swift. Yeah?
Dominic Colangelo: Obviously we would love to see the pros play in this pro-amp, but you never actually see the celebrities anymore. Like I saw maybe Travis Kelce walking by once. You see Aaron Rodgers one time, like I was lucky enough, one company I worked for, had a house on hole 14 on the T-box and we got to bring customers there. So we got to walk around that area and I locked eyes with Aaron Rodgers and that was very fun. And he was playing with...
Matthew Zampello: Did you actually lock eyes or was he staring staring through you into something like a best or something? ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ he was lost. He was for sure. He was looking through me. And then Darius Rucker was his playing partner. But like, you didn't see that on TV. They only show the pros anymore. know, ⁓ why show the celebrities?
Matthew Zampello: You could almost do like a McAfee broadcast where they only show the celebrities, right?
Dominic Colangelo: I like that actually, like a give it to somebody else. And he's the perfect person. like give it to, give it to other known podcasters or you know, those sideshows.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. Right. Right. Right. And then you kind of have it on like ESPN 2 or ESPN, the Ocho, whatever you want to do. Right. And then, or you even have like the celebrity box up in the corner where you get to see like shooty celebrity shots or something. I don't know. I feel like you can do so many fun things with it. So I know that.
Dominic Colangelo: There you go, yeah. ESPN would be a, I'm interrupting you. ESPN would be perfect for that, because they have right now, I don't know if you've been on ESPN in a bit since you have YouTube TV, but they do the feature groups. They have two feature groups. They have two featured holes, and then the main feed up until like 11.30. And it's essentially like you're watching golf in person, so you can only stand at a hole or follow one group, which is kind of, I don't like that, but. They also give you an option to have the grid style. So just one of those squares can be a celebrity main feed and you just bounce back and forth. Let me see Macklemore hit a seven iron into a par three, you know what mean?
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, for sure. So Pebble, now we go really go into the swing. Phoenix Open. It's the party tournament. It's one of the best in the, in, in the schedule. I was lucky enough to go in 2014. Or no, I'm sorry, 2015. 2015 was the year Tiger had the yips at the Phoenix Open where he like couldn't ship.
Dominic Colangelo: You did? That sucks.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, that was my one time I've seen Tiger in person. Yeah, was a magical experience, but it's such a cool tournament, right? ⁓ You know, it's unique, it's the whole thing, it's Phoenix, it's all the stuff. ⁓ So give me your best shot at a name.
Dominic Colangelo: Whoa, that's crazy. Mm-hmm. I would say, mean, what everyone calls it anyway, nobody really, some people will be like, I'm going to waste management, because that's what it's called, but a lot of people have been calling it the people's open. Let's just give it the name that it wants. The, yeah, what is it?
Matthew Zampello: I like it. ⁓ One more idea. If you're gonna stick with waste management, wasted management.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ dude, right of a check, right of a check, that's perfect. I love that. Going to what you're saying with Tiger being ⁓ like that was a one-term and he was bad, that's kind of like where the business sense where these guys, wanna make sure people see Scottie. They wanna make sure people see Rory and LeBron, if he takes a game off and a 10-year-old is his first time going to an NBA game, he doesn't see LeBron, then that's bad for business, you know?
Matthew Zampello: you Yeah, All right, ⁓ that's the end of the West Coast swing. ⁓ So a notable things we're leaving out. ⁓ LA, ⁓ we have different idea for LA. LA's not gone, we have it. ⁓ Unfortunately, Springs. ⁓ It's gotta go, man. ⁓ a small...
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah.
Matthew Zampello: It's small niche tournament. You still might have a PGA Tour B event in Palm Springs. I actually absolutely have a PGA Tour B event in Palm Springs. But do you get the A guys out there? No. I think it's time to let that one go.
Dominic Colangelo: For sure. keep it as the B tournaments and then make it little cheaper for us amateurs to go out there and visit.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, yeah, it's a good, I mean, it's still a cool spot. So, okay, so we're onto Florida, Doral. You gotta go back to Doral. They're going back to Doral this year. So, but they gotta really lean into the stars, lean into the city, lean into the culture. What I think would be super cool, make it line up with the F1 event in Miami, right?
Dominic Colangelo: I like that. I like that.
Matthew Zampello: So you have just Miami just becomes an absolute party that weekend, right? You F1, you got golf in town, you do a little cross, you do a little F1 golf cross contamination. mean, seeing the golfers go to the F1 event at night, right? Host the F1 event at nighttime or something like that would be sick.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ yeah! That'd be really cool. Under the lights, you just finished watching a playoff on 18. They did it three different times, because it's so close. And then you're amped up, and you go to F1 and just have a ball. That'd be great. I would say as a different name, there's ⁓ many different ways you can go with Miami. You can kind of go with some of the more historical landmarks like Biltmore, but I think there's a resort called that, or maybe a course, can't actually remember, kind of throwing Havana in there, but I think ⁓ the one and the classic one is the Miami Vice Classic.
Matthew Zampello: I like it.
Dominic Colangelo: You can't really go wrong with Miami Vice.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, no, absolutely. I think it's a name.
Dominic Colangelo: Everyone wears fake mustaches, Hawaiian shirts. It'd be great.
Matthew Zampello: You get like a bunch of cool you can make like a bunch of cool like Miami Vice one-off gear like head covers stuff like they'd all lean into
Dominic Colangelo: It's the best color combo in sports, besides Houston Oilers. But like Miami Vice, any of those colorway jerseys that any team has in any league is incredible.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. sure. Okay, then tournament we just had Bay Hill, Arnold Palmer Invitational. Gotta keep this. You gotta honor the best in the game. You can kind of hit that Orlando Disneyland area. ⁓ So yeah, keep this one. It's a good tournament. ⁓ The course is meh, but you know, it's a the guys love the tournament. You gotta honor our awnee. So then we move on to the players. ⁓ Notably not a major championship. I will die on that sword. It's not a major championship. You can't tell me it's made It's just it's just not a major it's it there's things like you can't just willy-nilly say this is now a major and I know we've done that over the years in golf that was like back in the 50s and stuff, but the majors are Masters US Open PGA Championship ⁓ open or the US Open ⁓ then the Ryder Cup is just as big
Dominic Colangelo: Why is that? Show your work. Mm-hmm.
Matthew Zampello: The players is a huge, huge event, but it's not a major. It's right under a major, but it's not a major. They gotta find their niche. And I think they're working on that this year, to be honest, but it's their crown jewel.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Yeah, and the players is such a sick name. Like it's hard to mess with that. My other idea for that TBC Sawgrass, bone saw. Bone saws, ready?
Matthew Zampello: Yeah! Bonesaw Invitational, that's the Saudi Arabian tournament. can't.
Dominic Colangelo: WELL, ⁓
Matthew Zampello: That's not original, so that's not original.
Dominic Colangelo: Nah, that's fine. fine. Yeah, a little Toby Maguire, Spider-Man 1. Anyways.
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ Okay, Houston open. We go down to Texas. So again, it's spring here in Texas. You got to hit the hot parts of the United States while it's cool here. So Houston open. There's some good courses down in Houston. Golf Club of Houston where they used to play is always been one of the harder tournaments ⁓ out there. Harder golf courses challenges the guys. I think you got to, Houston is such a big market. Right. You got to hit the Houston area. good thing is it's kind of similar. has similar, you know, ⁓ conditions to, ⁓ the masters. And so you're kind of getting ready for that, you know, getting ready for that tournament. ⁓ so Houston open. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: Kind of fine-tuning a little bit Yeah for for some names, you know, you can kind of go the the oil rig challenge can go with the high high humidity classic the The sweaty invitational that's a that's the winner right there because that's everyone has that
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. swamp ass open. Shout out to our boy Rob.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah The wet socks invitational.
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ Okay, we're moving on. We're going to Atlanta. Atlanta playing Eastlake. So Eastlake has historically always been ⁓ where the tour championships is held in August. ⁓ No more. Eastlake is a great golf course, historic golf course. They got to hit the historic places, but it does not belong. Should not be going down to Atlanta, Georgia in August. ⁓ They don't want to do that. So you do it.
Dominic Colangelo: For sure.
Matthew Zampello: right before the Masters. Reason is some guys like to play the Master, play the week before to get ready to get in that grind mode. Some guys don't. So you don't make a huge tournament, but it's a big tournament. But the nice part is it's just a few hour drive from Atlanta up to Augusta. So super easy for the guys to travel ⁓ after they play. And Georgia in the spring, late kind of late spring, early summer is fantastic, right?
Dominic Colangelo: You
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ so it's just, it's an easy, it's an easy win for the tour. think they got to do that.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, the Hotlanta Heat Challenge. There's the Hawks open, the ⁓ Georgia Peaches. You don't even need like a golf term at the end. Yeah, there you go, Peach open, make it easy.
Matthew Zampello: The hawks open. Yeah, there you go. I like that one. The peach open. Yeah. Okay, the Masters. Obviously, you go to the Masters next week. No changes there. And it really should always be the first major of the year.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. I like that. No notes.
Matthew Zampello: then this is one of the ones that the tour has actually always gotten right, I think. They always go to Harbor Town the week after the Masters. And it's super chill. The families love it. It's really relaxed. You're in.
Dominic Colangelo: Love, Harbertown.
Matthew Zampello: Hilton Head, people love it. It's a great place to be. I think they've always done this one right. So no notes there for the tour.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. Like you said, it's such a high stress, high ⁓ attention grabbing event, the Masters. So then your next move being Harbor Town, it's very visually pleasing and it's just usually a fun tournament. So yeah, I agree where it's very relaxed, very chill. I don't really think you need to change it. And that's just a great name, Harbor Town Invitation. You don't want to change it.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, yeah. Next on the list, the Nashville or NOLA two-man tournament. So here's one. Right now, the tour doesn't really rotate tournaments. They like to keep them kind of in the same market every year. But I think you got to go, you have a two-man best ball tournament ⁓ or even ⁓ alternate shot event. Basically what the Zurich Championship is today, and it's in New Orleans, so you kind of keep that. but you also rotate it to Nashville. There's not a PGA Tour event in Nashville right now. Nashville is a huge up and coming market. And you basically kind of visit a cool course out there, go back to New Orleans and you kind of change up the golf course a little bit in Nashville. I think that would be cool. Gives the players something else to see. And then the two man format, like it is good to change up the format a little bit. We just got done with the Masters, we've been playing regular stroke play all year. You gotta throw something in there eventually. So.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. I do like ⁓ the NOLA Two-Man, great name. And then if it's in Nashville, it's a Nashville Two-Step.
Matthew Zampello: Ooh, I like that. I love that. It's good stuff. one, ⁓ a place near and to my heart, Colonial Cup. ⁓ Shout out. ⁓ It's a great spot. ⁓ Old classic course on tour. ⁓ The guys love the cough course. Cough course is cool. ⁓ Something that might put me in hot water with my ⁓ peeps.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Yep. There it is. Huge fan.
Matthew Zampello: It serves the entire DFW to market. know, if you're a golfer and you really want to go visit the tournament, you go to drive to Colonial. It's just in Fort Worth, just a few miles away. ⁓ no Dallas events. ⁓ Colonial serves the DFW market. So.
Dominic Colangelo: I think that's very yes, agree.
Matthew Zampello: Maybe you have a PGA Tour B event in Dallas. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: can see that. There's a lot of bee events that can happen, kind of give other cities and other markets a little bit more opportunity. But yeah, I like this list so far.
Matthew Zampello: Dallas just doesn't have what has good golf courses. It does. It has great golf courses. They're just not visually appealing and the great golf courses are super landlocked and not able to host a PGA Tour event. ⁓ Right? you just, it's just, it's kind of unsustainable. So.
Dominic Colangelo: Right. Yeah, Colonial's awesome, it's shorter, but it's so hard.
Matthew Zampello: It's not even that short, which is crazy. Like it's, par 70 for the PJ tour guys. And it's like 7,100 yards par 70.
Dominic Colangelo: thought it was under seven. Maybe they changed it. Okay. Hey.
Matthew Zampello: I don't think so. Maybe I'm just not, maybe I'm not very long.
Dominic Colangelo: I was
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, PJ Championship. ⁓ So there's always these rumors that the PJ Championship is going to go back to August. I don't think the PJ of America is going to let that happen. ⁓ Because again, my Dallas roots, ⁓ PJ of America built a monstrosity in Frisco, which is North Dallas, essentially. ⁓ And you absolutely cannot host a PJ. PJ Championship in August in Dallas, Texas. It's impossible. You'll, I mean, they'll die. ⁓ I went to the LPGA tournament in June at PJ Frisco and ⁓ Charlie Hull offered me water because I looked hot as I was following her. And she thought I was going to pass out. She kind of like leaned over and she's like, do you need some water? You look thirsty. was like, yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: created Ha ha ha. with her cigarette in her mouth. Thank you, ma'am. Thanks, Mommy.
Matthew Zampello: I was like, yes, ma'am, please. ⁓ She was very nice. Shout out her. ⁓ So PGA Championship, obviously moves around. After that, ⁓ the DC Open. ⁓ I can't believe that ⁓ PGA Tour doesn't have a tournament in DC right now. That's crazy.
Dominic Colangelo: It is pretty wild. It is pretty wild. I would say before you get into the details, some of the names I've been thinking of for the DC Open. ⁓ Open's pretty strong. ⁓ The filibuster fairway. The presidential cup. I would say change the president's cup now because ⁓ USA versus some European team. You can find a name for that. Name this the president's cup.
Matthew Zampello: Okay, I like that. I like that. ⁓ Kind of going on her silly season. ⁓ The swamp open. ⁓ For Congress. Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: You know? Yeah. Ooh, there you go. The bipartisan bash.
Matthew Zampello: It's like bipartisan back. The bipartisan back is fantastic. Yeah, I think you're gonna get some characters, right? And there's a ton of great courses up there. Congressional, ton of good land out there. So you will find something to play that turned them out Okay, going over to Memorial. Muirphil Village, Jack's Place. It's kind of like the Art of Palmer Invitational. You have to have...
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. Mm-hmm. For sure.
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ One of the you have to honor the grace of the game, right? So Jack's gonna get his tournament, right and and and Mirsion village is a pretty sick course as well. So
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. And for the naming race, is Memorial Championship like, do we want to keep Memorial because it's, or do you just name it like the Nicholas something? Like you just name it after Jack? Exactly. Yeah, just give him his flowers. ⁓ perfect. Yeah.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, that's like Jack's thing for some reason. I don't know. Yeah, like the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Jack Nicholas Invitational, right? Or the Golden Bear. Yeah. okay. So we are basically, can't, ⁓ in the middle of the summer. We cannot host anything south of Mason Dix line anymore. done. You can't do it. ⁓ so we're going up to Philly, the Philly Invitational, right? Has a collection of some of the best courses in the world. They kind of hit their stride and in June, ⁓ conditions are good, et cetera, et cetera. ⁓ and it's a huge market. You gotta go to Philly, right?
Dominic Colangelo: I like it. ⁓ The Rocky classic.
Matthew Zampello: Philly special.
Dominic Colangelo: Yep, isn't George Foreman from there? There's another incredible boxer from Philly and I can't believe I'm forgetting. yeah, there's, yeah, the Wahlberg Invitational. There's so many different names that you can go with Philly, but yeah. I do like having one in there, especially like you said, you wanna kinda go north whenever it's middle of that season.
Matthew Zampello: Isn't? It's not Mark Wahlberg, is it? Yeah, yeah. And then we're going right onto the US Open. again, kind of using Philly as like that precursor to the US Open. Most of the US Opens are hosted kind of in that Northeast area. ⁓ I wouldn't say all of them are, but majority of them are. ⁓ So you kind of have that short drive, short travel for the guys a lot of the times. And it's the peak of the summer, right? For the US Open. right after the US open, we're going on to Minneapolis. ⁓ ⁓ not many places can visit in United States in late early July. You gotta, ⁓ you gotta hit, you gotta hit many.
Dominic Colangelo: We'll get you up here in the middle of the summer for Minnesota. mean, the Twin Cities Classic, Twin Cities Cup, throwing in Twin Cities somewhere, it's most likely gonna be at Hazel Teen unless they would love to open Interlochen. That'd be kinda sick, but yeah. I like Twin Cities something for that name, but it'd be, I think it's a great spot for a golf tournament,
Matthew Zampello: I know. share. Let me see. Yeah, for sure. ⁓ a golf-obsessed city. Like, so many golfers, right? ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, I agree. They're just, locked in their rooms for four months, five months out of the year. So they, they want to get out there. July, June, July is, you know, you can have snow in the end of April. So you really don't know when you're going to actually get to start. So June, July, that's like peak. You're, you're, you've played a couple of times at this point, depending on how your schedule is, but you're, you're feening for that golf lifestyle.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah.
Dominic Colangelo: So it'd be perfect for that timeline.
Matthew Zampello: Okay, going on from Minneapolis, the Canadian Open. You gotta go up to Canada, national open. ⁓ Here's my take. It should be regarded as basically the same level as the players. You have that Canadian Open as like, this is a national event, right? It's a huge market, golf obsessed up in Canada, and you make it a big event, right? You make it something special. ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm.
Matthew Zampello: That would be super cool.
Dominic Colangelo: Hozier Slapshot.
Matthew Zampello: I like that. like that. but yeah, gotta go to Canada. Kind of go visit our friends up, up, up North. Now we're getting into the fun part, Scottish open. ⁓ so again, this is something that the tours gotten right. ⁓ over the last few years is they go to the Scottish open. The Scottish open is kind of a joint DP world, ⁓ PJ tour event. It's kind of the same, you know, they're, kind of one in the same.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Matthew Zampello: I think the format currently works, but you do rotate the location. So right now they always play at the renaissance club, ⁓ which is supposedly just a bunch of Houston people hanging out out there is what I've heard. Weirdly. Yeah. I know. Right. ⁓ So, you know, I think kind of a different location rotated around. You got to go see some of the cool Scottish courses out there. can't host them. Right.
Dominic Colangelo: is people from Houston are the worst. For sure, there's so many cool ones over there.
Matthew Zampello: And then the Open Championship, right? So this is your last major of the year, last chance, you know, and it's obviously a quick jump from the Scottish over to wherever they're playing.
Dominic Colangelo: Is there any world where they do three weeks up there, give another European country some love?
Matthew Zampello: would love I think if they did Irish Scottish in the open I think that'd be sick I don't know if you could fit it in the Irish is historically I think more towards the there's one in the fall but I think it's not the actual Irish open it's like a different version I don't know but yeah totally Irish Scottish the open chamber
Dominic Colangelo: That'd be pretty cool. Yeah.
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ Okay, we're back to the United States, but a quick flight from the open. We're off to Boston. ⁓ So it's the last regular season for a push into the playoffs. I think the Boston people would really love to see that like playoff mentality end of the season. Like that's their, they love that stuff. I think they would, they would kill for that. you know, something in Boston.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. National Treasure, Boston Tea Party. There's so many, there's Liberty, yeah. Yeah, that's strong. The Liberty Bell, there's so many different things you can throw in. Maybe you do Liberty Bell for Philly and then Boston Tea Party. Yeah, I got those crossed up in my head for a quick second, but yeah, there we go. We named them both.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, the Patriot, you just call it the Patriot. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I just think like there's a ton of great courses up there. You got it. And again, it's crazy that the PJ tour does not visit Boston, right?
Dominic Colangelo: That is weird. I never really caught that. I thought they were up there. I guess they're just in the northeast.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, they were for a long time and then it kind of went away and whatever. ⁓ all right, so we're into the playoffs, right? Playoffs? ⁓ So they do the playoffs right now. I believe the playoffs are, man, they're so forgettable right now. don't even.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Play off! There's the BMW.
Matthew Zampello: which is terrible. ⁓ the FedEx St. Jude in Memphis, Memphis in August, no thanks. ⁓ The BMW, which we are going to continue to have and then.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. because that's in Chicago.
Matthew Zampello: Well, it used to be and now it's kind of all over the place, which is a whole, whole nother thing. yeah. And then they have the, then they have ⁓ tour championship, I think. don't know. think, ⁓ right now, so you have the first off ⁓ York challenge. You got to visit New York city, right around New York city. Tone of great courses there. You go right from Boston to the New York city challenge, ⁓ or whatever name.
Dominic Colangelo: Gotcha. Okay. Mm-hmm.
Matthew Zampello: And it's one of the biggest markets in the world, markets in the world. Even though Liberty National kind of stinks as a golf perspective, you get views of the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. Like, it's cool, right?
Dominic Colangelo: Right. Mm-hmm. The Gabagool Open. or something.
Matthew Zampello: The Gotham Classic. ⁓ Okay, so now on to your Western Open. ⁓ So historically, the Western Open has always been in Chicago, right? But lately, they've been bringing it to other places, Baltimore, places like that. I think you gotta go back to the roots. It's the Western Open, it's supposed to be in Chicago.
Dominic Colangelo: There it is. Yeah, I like that. Justice.
Matthew Zampello: Chicago has a ton of great courses. Again, the tour doesn't really visit Chicago on a regular basis right now, which is crazy, right? Huge market. Chicago in August can be kind of swamp ashes, but like, you know, whatever you'll fake, they'll figure it out. It's hit or miss.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Right, I do have one suggestion. What if they do that course, I think it's Brickyard Crossing in Indianapolis. Have you seen that before? I think that's what it's called. It's literally like three holes are inside where the Indianapolis 500 are. Put it there. Imagine all the viewers you get there. And then same time, NASCAR.
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ right near India. Yeah. could be sick. That could be very- Yeah! No, for sure. ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: They gotta drive, they gotta walk through the course or drop, walk through the raceway as they go.
Matthew Zampello: I like that. You're kind of going into the F1 stuff. I like it. So then we're on to Seattle or San Francisco. So you kind of have this whole coordination of playoff events and then you kind of make your way back to the West Coast, right? So start off on the West Coast, end in the West Coast, right? So you kind of rotate, kind of like NOLA in Nashville, you rotate between Seattle and San Francisco, right? So you hit two big markets. They're not soup. mean they are golf obsessed, but they're not like it's not like You know, it's not like they're they're their fans are gonna come out in droves for it There's great courses in Seattle and San Fran Chambers TPC Harding Park Olympic Club ⁓ You know some of the ritzier San Francisco ones you're obviously not gonna get every year, but it would be very cool
Dominic Colangelo: So many options. ⁓ What would ever see ⁓ PGA being played at any of the banding courses?
Matthew Zampello: No, too hard to get to. Not enough infrastructure. you need, because again, whoever's hosting this tournament is not going to put up the cash to, you know, have no people out there. ⁓
Dominic Colangelo: that's a great point. Yeah. Yeah, that's a point. For the names for San Francisco, maybe just like the soup kitchen cup.
Matthew Zampello: Soup Kitchen.
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, with all the homeless out there. They don't have anywhere else to put them, so let's just name the golf tournament after them.
Matthew Zampello: We don't have for politics out here Dom. Except for the bipartisan open.
Dominic Colangelo: That's not a politics thing. I lived it. It's true Dude it was there is a couple stories where we we live Yeah, we lived over there and we're literally like showing people around San Francisco and we're like, yeah the tenderloin is it's the place you want to avoid That's like the third ward in Houston or whatever So it's like the bad place the bad place and then we literally without even realizing it where we take our my brother and sister-in-law to a place in the middle of the tenderloin
Matthew Zampello: Oh yeah, you lived out there. I totally forgot. Uh-uh.
Dominic Colangelo: It was delicious pizza, delicious Italian food. We walked out. There's people, there's drug deals happening. There's people yelling at the sky and the street at night. We didn't even realize we were in the worst part of the whole city. We're just like, where are we? Like I was thinking, ⁓ man, we got really lucky. We got a parking spot right in front of the restaurant. It's cause there's no cars around cause they're not dumb enough to park there.
Matthew Zampello: Not good. Do you remember that burrito that we had in San Francisco that one time? I think about that. I think about that burrito.
Dominic Colangelo: Yes, the Reveille Cafe. I do too. It had like the thick potatoes in there with a little bit like chimichurri on the inside. It was so good. We gotta go back. We gotta play Harding Park again.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. Yeah. That was a good time. Hit up Pasa tempo again.
Dominic Colangelo: Yes, ⁓ my gosh, that's a dream. Hit it again.
Matthew Zampello: Maybe maybe you know what screw it you put one of the you rotate this tournament to pasta tempo every once in a while Let them let them I mean they will probably tear apart pasta tempo because I think it's too short for them Um, but who cares? them tear it up. You know, let's let's see Yeah Yeah
Dominic Colangelo: I was curious if we were gonna bring it up. Well, the greens are tough. They're big, but they're tough, all the undulation. I was curious. So you brought up the Crosby Clambake for the Pebble. Was that the event that Alistair McKenzie took ⁓ the guy who wanted to build Augusta, or is that a different tournament?
Matthew Zampello: Mm. ⁓ So I think that happened at the US Amateur ⁓ Bobby Jones missed the cut at the US Amateur which was being played at Pebble and then went down and played Pasa Tiempo and then that was when Alistair Mackenzie he played his first Alistair Mackenzie or something and was like I end up going and building a gosh
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Yeah, like Alistair brought him there and he's like, let me show you this course I made. And then he saw a 16 on Paso Tiempo and he said, I want this course, this whole at Augusta, which is perfectly modeled. I believe it's number 12 at Augusta. That's the part three.
Matthew Zampello: Right. No, think it's yeah 12 at a gusse but I think it's I think it's 12 or 13 because 16 is 16 at posa tempo is the three tier
Dominic Colangelo: It is? Well, it's around there. It's towards the end, the back half, the back third of Pasta Tiempo, whatever number it is, but I'm pretty sure it's almost an exact replica. It's obviously, there's more trees and there's no bridge, but like, it's...
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. Towards the end, par three. Right. Exactly. That shot haunts me Dom. Remember I was like two under and I hit it in the creek. There's like a little creek in front. I was not. I was not happy. I was not a happy camper. I think just like that burrito I think about that shot quite a
Dominic Colangelo: Yeah, you're way you're weirdly weirdly short there. I don't know what happened. Yeah, that was crazy. That's fair. I do too.
Matthew Zampello: okay. So Seattle, San Francisco, maybe throw a little pasatiempo in there. Okay, tour championship, tour championship in Los Angeles, ⁓ Pure prime time golf, know, eight, nine PM finish on the West Coast, you get, you know, you get all the cool stuff or eight or nine PM on the East Coast, regular time in the West Coast. Riviera, it's the best time of the year for that course for the course conditions there. ⁓ Here's a crazy idea. You know, I'm a known TGL hater.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ yeah. Mm-hmm. Yep.
Matthew Zampello: ⁓ But you lean into it.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay.
Matthew Zampello: Finale of TGL at SoFi Stadium where the Rams play.
Dominic Colangelo: Okay.
Matthew Zampello: as a lead up to the Torch Amateur.
Dominic Colangelo: In what sense?
Matthew Zampello: Like, like, because right now they play TGL in the SoFi Dome in Palm Beach Gardens, right, which is built just for that. But you convert SoFi Stadium for one night to be able to host simulator golf and you do all the crazy stuff and whatever in SoFi Stadium with all those people.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. Right. So you're saying the finale of TGL, that is played there, and then they lead into the, OK, I like that. Yeah, because then it gives some of the players, you know, get a day of rest if you wanted to, then you can compete if you're in it. I don't think Tom Kim's getting in the tour championship, but here we go.
Matthew Zampello: Yes, like Tuesday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It'd be crazy. Be nuts. be nuts. Not not right now. ⁓ but yeah, I mean, I think that would be a pretty cool schedule. I don't think the guys have to play every tournament, but I think that these are the these are the ones they're gonna want to hit, right? These are gonna be the big money events, they're gonna be the kind of no cut events or low cut events and whatever. So ⁓ now a couple caveats here. We understand that this, you know, not all this stuff might be doable, etc, etc.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm.
Matthew Zampello: You know, it's not 100 % possible, but I think this is what we would like to see.
Dominic Colangelo: Right, lot of obviously the cable, the TV, the contracts, all the ⁓ image and likeness rights are definitely at play, but this is way more fun to think about.
Matthew Zampello: And the key is you end it before football season. So right before football season, you know, maybe last week of preseason is the tour jamming ship and end it. And then for the fall, it's kind of the European national open series, right? You have the Irish open, Spanish open. ⁓ you kind of do all that stuff, the Danish open, and you kind of let those guys pick and choose those events, ⁓ to kind of play in the fall and they play over in Europe.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm.
Matthew Zampello: This way you're still getting the best in the world, right? But they're on in the morning for kind of coffee cough in the United States and you're not really competing against the NFL, right?
Dominic Colangelo: Exactly. It's low stress if
Matthew Zampello: And then if you even go to Asia, you get Saturday night finishes ⁓ for Yeah. It'd be super cool. ⁓ so I think
Dominic Colangelo: Exactly. Mm-hmm. If it's night golf over there, what time is it for us here?
Matthew Zampello: Well, no, in Asia, they play regular and it's like, it finishes at like Saturday night. Our time would be Sunday midday there. And that's when they'd be finishing. So that's why it's.
Dominic Colangelo: No, right. Like if they were to do night golf, like under the lights, like in Japan and stuff.
Matthew Zampello: Oh, I don't know. It'd be... Oh, I don't know. It'd be nighttime. No, it would be middle of the day here. Yeah. I think, yeah. I think it's just, it makes sense. I think obviously the most sense makes you do live in the fall. Live golf becomes the fall.
Dominic Colangelo: I don't know the time change. Okay, it could be fun. I like it though. Yeah, like,
Matthew Zampello: right, if you did the live golf stuff in the fall, right, it makes sense, right? Because like it's kind of silly season, it doesn't technically matter, et cetera, et cetera. You get all the... Right, yeah, it's only eight tournaments or whatever.
Dominic Colangelo: Mm-hmm. It doesn't happen as often. Your team is on a buy. Your red zone isn't. You're not being able to log in. You can turn into some live golf. It'd be great. I think this schedule is awesome.
Matthew Zampello: I like it.
Dominic Colangelo: anything else?
Matthew Zampello: but yeah, ⁓ dude, you're by ⁓ the bipartisan ⁓ that that tickled me. I'm gonna lie. That me. That the bipartisan bash that that tickled me inside. That was good stuff.
Dominic Colangelo: That can be good. The bipartisan bash. We should submit that to the government. I'm sure there's an email we can talk to, say, hey, if you ever host a golf tournament, I would love naming rights. I think it can work out.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. I like it.
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ Check us out. think ⁓ we have some pretty solid ideas here. I don't think this is like, this isn't so out of the realm that it makes no sense. I think you can still make plenty of money on these golf courses. I think the fans would love it. I think it... ⁓
Matthew Zampello: No.
Dominic Colangelo: It'd be fun to maybe even give whatever city is hosting, do one of those ⁓ write-in votes for the naming rights. And you can kind of, cause you know, we're, I live in Minnesota, I'm from Houston, you're from Houston, you live in Dallas. We have a very small amount of knowledge of all these cities and states. So we're coming up with dumb names. But I think it'd be great to get everyone involved too.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah. Yeah, unfortunately, they're probably gonna stick with like...
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ absolutely. They paid all this money for it. They're going to have their name on the title.
Matthew Zampello: Yeah, but it's it's nice to, you know, have fun with it. But I think, yeah, I mean, I would love to go back on this and see how close we get to like to after they finish, because I think that would I think, you know, whatever they come up with, it's going to there's obviously going to be tweaks. But yeah, man, I mean, you know, new new PGA Tour, it's coming at us. Unfortunately, we're going to lose some great events like the John Deere Classic. And, you know, they'll be on PGA Tour B, so we can still
Dominic Colangelo: ⁓ yeah, we'll do a reaction for sure. Right. Mm-hmm. It'll be fun to see it. Yeah, exactly. We'll still be able to see it. Exactly. For all the golf nerds out there. But I think that just about wraps it up for us. What do you think? Yeah.
Matthew Zampello: The sickos can still watch it. I like it, yeah. Players championship this week. Shout out P. Die.
Dominic Colangelo: Oh yeah, we'll hopefully we'll be releasing this Tuesday the 10th and then we'll be coming out with our normal podcast maybe Wednesday but be sure to follow us on our socials at under the covers golf. Excited for the player championship excited for Mr. Brian roll-up sirs schedule is coming out potentially Wednesday morning not exactly sure. But yeah can't wait to see what happens and we can kind of get a look under the covers see what happens.
Matthew Zampello: If you are listening to P.J. Tore, we'd love an invite to the press conference he's going to do,
Dominic Colangelo: That'd be great. We would ask great questions, very meaningful questions. But all right. See you next week. Peace.