Rory McIlroy discusses potential return to PGA Tour policy board | Golf Today | Golf Channel [Video]

0:03 | >>> BACK ON “GOLF TODAY.”

0:07 | HOW ABOUT THESE TWO YOUNGSTERS?

0:08 | SHANE LOWRY BACK IN THE DAY,

0:10 | GREAT FRIENDS FROM THE YEARS.

0:14 | TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS, A COUPLE OF

0:17 | PRACTICE TOGETHER, HANG OUT IN

0:24 | LOOK AT THAT.

0:25 | RYDER CUP TEAMMATES, YOU NAME

0:27 | THEY’VE GOT A LOT TOGETHER IN

0:30 | FOR THE FIRST TIME, PARTNERS.

0:36 | MAKING HIS DEBUT ALONGSIDE

0:37 | LOWERY WILL MAKE HIS FIFTH

0:40 | START AT THE FIRST ROUND

0:41 | STARTING TOMORROW.

0:46 | ALONGSIDE.

0:48 | >> CONSECUTIVE WEEK.

0:52 | EVEN HE WAS DESCRIBED AS.

1:03 | TEAM LOWERY AND McELROY WITH

1:06 | >> WERE YOU ABLE TO CONFIRM THE

1:14 | >> NOT AS OF YET, NO.

1:15 | >> ARE WE ABLE TO SPEAK?

1:19 | I GUESS WHEN YOU GO BACK TO A

1:21 | YEAR AGO OR EIGHT MONTHS AGO

1:22 | WHEN YOU DECIDED TO STEP AWAY,

1:25 | YOU TALKED ABOUT WANTING TO

1:26 | FOCUS MORE INSIDE THE ROPES AND

1:27 | THINGS LIKE THAT.

1:28 | WHAT IS CHANGED IN THE LAST

1:29 | HOW DO YOU LOOK BACK NOW AND

1:33 | WHY IT MIGHT BE INTERESTING?

1:41 | PROGRESS MADE IN LAST EIGHT

1:45 | I COULD BE HELPFUL TO THE

1:49 | PROCESS BUT ONLY IF PEOPLE WANT

1:52 | ME INVOLVED, I GUESS.

1:57 | I TALKED AND HE TALKED ABOUT

1:59 | EVENTUALLY COMING UP THE BOARD.

2:00 | I LOOK AT IT AS SOMETHING IS

2:03 | OTHER PEOPLE WANTED.

2:04 | I WOULD PROBABLY GET THAT SEAT.

2:08 | THAT WAS A CONVERSATION THAT WE

2:13 | HAD BUT YEAH, I THINK THAT IS

2:15 | THE HOLE REASON I FEEL LIKE I

2:16 | CAN BE HELPFUL.

2:17 | I CARE A LOT AND I HAVE SOME

2:20 | PRETTY GOOD EXPERIENCING AND

2:22 | GOOD CONNECTIONS AND AROUND THE

2:27 | WIDER ECOSYSTEM AND EVERYTHING

2:28 | THAT IS GOING ON.

2:31 | AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT’S NOT

2:35 | QUITE UP TO ME TO COME BACK ON

2:37 | THERE IS A PROCESS THAT HAS TO

2:39 | BE FOLLOWED BUT I AM WILLING TO

2:40 | DO IT IF THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE

2:43 | WANT, I GUESS.

2:48 | >> IT HYPOTHETICALLY YOU ARE

2:49 | BACK, IS THAT SOMETHING YOU

2:52 | WOULD HAVE A STRONGER STANCE

2:53 | >> ABSOLUTELY, YEAH.

2:55 | IT IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD FOR

2:57 | THE GAME OF GOLF.

3:01 | >> YOU’VE SAID BEFORE, I THINK

3:04 | DON’T SEE EYE TO EYE.

3:08 | HOW DO YOU MANAGE THAT IN TERMS

3:09 | OF TRYING TO.

3:18 | COMPROMISE.

3:26 | HELP PEOPLE SEE THE BENEFITS OF

3:28 | WHAT YOU CAN DO AND WHAT TO DO

3:29 | FOR THIS IN PARTICULAR.

3:32 | YOU DON’T JUST REALIZED THE

3:33 | GAME IS NOT FOR THAT REASON.

3:38 | THERE IS STILL SOME HARD

3:41 | FEELINGS AND THINGS THAT NEED

3:43 | TO BE ADDRESSED.

3:44 | I THINK AT THIS POINT, WE ALL

3:49 | NEED TO PUT THOSE FEELINGS

3:54 | I WOULD SAY THAT I PLAYED SOME

3:55 | OF THE BEST GOLF.

4:00 | IT WAS MAYBE JUST TAKING AWAY

4:02 | SOMETIME OF ME PURSUING THINGS

4:05 | OR SENDING TIME DOING THINGS

4:06 | THAT I WANTED TO DO AT HOME.

4:07 | HAVING TO HOP ON CALLS TO

4:09 | MINISTRY TIMES A WEEK.

4:11 | THE HOLE THING STARTED TO.

4:15 | AS IT HAS ON A LOT OF THE

4:16 | PLAYERS.

4:17 | WE ARE GOLFERS AT THE END OF

4:22 | WE DON’T NEED TO RUN A $15

4:28 | PEOPLE DO BUSINESS THINGS.

4:29 | >> EQUITY NUMBERS.

4:32 | I GUESS THE QUESTION IS WHAT IS

4:36 | A NUMBER THAT MAKES YOU FEEL

4:37 | VALIDATED FOR SAYING?

4:42 | >> I THINK THE ONE THING WE’VE

4:44 | LEARNED IN GOLF OVER THE LAST

4:45 | THREE YEARS IS THERE’S NEVER

4:46 | >> WHERE WE TALK IN EQUITY AS

4:48 | WELL AS THE FUTURE OF THE PGA

4:51 | TOUR?

4:52 | HE MAY BE RIGHT ABOUT THAT LAST

4:53 | QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER ENOUGH

4:54 | IS ENOUGH.

4:55 | IS HE ENOUGH?

4:57 | COMING BACK, THIS FORMER PGA

4:59 | TOUR DEFENDER WHO WALKED AWAY

5:03 | ABOUT FIVE MONTHS AGO WANTING

5:04 | TO FOCUS ON HIS GAME, WILL HE

5:06 | BE WELCOME BACK?

5:09 | THIS PLAYER WILL BE A WORLDVIEW

5:10 | AND TALKING UNIFICATION.

5:11 | IT DEPENDS WHO YOU ASK.

5:14 | YOU THINK THAT SINCE HE IS THE

5:16 | BIGGEST, HE IS PLAYING THE

5:20 | WOULD BE A LOT OF STAKEHOLDERS

5:21 | WHO WOULD WANT TO SEE HIM BACK

5:23 | CERTAINLY OTHER PEOPLE WITHIN

5:25 | THE BROADER ECOSYSTEM OF GOLF

5:28 | BUT RORY McELROY HAS ALSO BEEN

5:30 | URGING A SOLUTION OF THE CIVIL

5:33 | WAR IN GOLF THAT S NOT

5:34 | NECESSARILY UNIVERSALLY I HELD

5:36 | OPINION AND YOU CAN VERY

5:39 | CLEARLY SEE ON A COLLISION

5:41 | COURSE POTENTIALLY WITH OTHER

5:43 | MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

5:45 | AT LEAST ONE PLAYER DIRECTOR

5:47 | HAS TRIED TO DELAY BACK ON THE

5:53 | BOARD.

5:54 | THEY KIND OF WANT TO.

6:01 | >> THERE WAS NO PROCESS APPLIED

6:02 | WHEN TIGER WOODS WAS ADDED TO

6:03 | THE BOARD.

6:04 | WAS NEVER THE ONLY PORTION ON

6:05 | THE BOARD WITH THE ENTIRE

6:08 | ESSENTIALLY ON THE BOARD FOR

6:13 | LIFE.

6:14 | THE PROCESS IS A USEFUL WEAPON

6:18 | TO APPLY AT CERTAIN TIMES.

6:21 | IT’S NOT SURLY UNIVERSITY

6:23 | APPLIED ALL.

6:24 | I THINK THERE IS DEFINITELY OF

6:28 | PLAYER DIRECTORS ON THE BOARD

6:30 | WHO ARE NOT NECESSARILY

6:33 | INCENTIVIZED OR ENSUED TO MOVE

6:34 | IN THE DIRECTION THAT RORY

6:36 | McELROY IS SUGGESTION.

6:37 | THERE IS A LOT OF ISSUES BEHIND

6:40 | NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH PLAYERS

6:42 | COMING BACK OUT THEY MOVE BACK

6:47 | INTO ANY KIND OF ECOSYSTEM.

6:48 | THERE ARE PLAYERS THAT JUST

6:49 | SIMPLY WANT ONE KIND OF

6:52 | THERE ARE OTHER PLAYERS THINK

6:53 | THAT’S AND THE GAME IS TO MOVE

6:55 | ON FROM IT.

6:56 | THOSE ARE TWO POWERFUL.

6:58 | RORY McELROY IS LEADING ONE OF

7:01 | THEM BUT THAT IS NOT

7:05 | UNIVERSALLY WITH THE OTHER

7:06 | >> WHAT ABOUT FOR JAY MONAHAN?

7:07 | AT ONE TIME, WAS ONE OF THE

7:09 | MOST POWERFUL PLAYER LIEUTENANT

7:10 | WHO COULD MAKE THAT ARGUMENT.

7:13 | DOES HIS WORLD VIEW IN TALKING

7:17 | UNIFICATION JIVE WITH THE WAY

7:18 | JAY MONAHAN WAS TALKING?

7:19 | AT THE PLAYERS JAMS ABOUT THIS

7:22 | TRANSFORMATIONAL TIME IN OUR

7:24 | GAME AND THE IMPORTANCE OF

7:27 | >> MY SENSE IS THAT THE VIEW

7:31 | ARE VERY MUCH ALIGNED AND THERE

7:32 | ARE OTHERS ON THE BOARD WHO

7:33 | SHARE A SIMILAR VIEW.

7:35 | THE QUESTION IS WHETHER OR NOT

7:37 | RORY McELROY COMING ON THE

7:42 | EFFECTIVE.

7:43 | HE DID SAY HE WANTS TO BE

7:44 | HELPFUL WHICH IS FINE BUT YOU

7:46 | CANNOT PRESUME THAT THE REASON

7:47 | HAS NOT BEEN PROGRAM.

7:48 | IT IS PURELY BECAUSE OF THE PGA

7:49 | TOUR.

7:50 | THE IDEA OF GETTING SOME KIND

7:53 | OF ON THE TIME AND ATTENTION

7:57 | WHO SERVES OVER 100 BOARDS IS A

7:59 | HAVING DECISIONS MADE BY THE

8:03 | PIP SITE AND THE NEGOTIATING

8:04 | ROOM, I HAVE BEEN TOLD IS AN

8:06 | ISSUE.

8:07 | AUTHORIZED TO MAKE DECISIONS ON

8:08 | THAT IS PART OF THE REASON WHY

8:09 | THIS PROCESS IS DRAGGING ON AS

8:11 | LONG AS IT IS.

8:13 | PUTTING RORY McELROY IN THE

8:14 | ROOM, AS WELL THOUGHT OFF HE IS

8:18 | BY ANYBODY ELSE IN THAT

8:19 | NEGOTIATING ROOM, IT DOES NOT

8:20 | NECESSARILY HASTEN THE DEAL.

8:21 | I DO NOT IT HURTS BUT IT

8:25 | CERTAINLY DOESN’T BECAUSE IT’S

8:26 | NOT AS THOUGH THE PGA TOUR

8:27 | BOARDROOM IS THE SOLE REASON

8:32 | WHY PROGRESS HAS LAGGED AS LONG

8:33 | >> THERE ARE MANY PROCESSES

8:34 | THAT ARE DRAGGING ON IN THE

8:36 | AS PART OF YOU SURPRISED THAT

8:38 | HE WOULD EVEN CONSIDER GOING

8:40 | BACK ON THE BOARD?

8:41 | WHEN HE LEFT, HE LOOKED

8:47 | EVERYTHING SEEMED LIKE IT WAS

8:52 | TOO MUCH.

8:55 | DEFENDER SURPRISED.

9:00 | STEPPED AWAY. POKE A LITTLE FUN

9:02 | AT GREG NORMAN WHEN HE MATCHED

9:04 | HIS NUMBER IN PGA TOUR SKI.

9:07 | ARE YOU SURPRISED OR DOES HIS

9:13 | WORLDVIEW CURIOSITY RENAISSANCE

9:15 | MAN.

9:16 | HAVE YOU LIVED IN THE MIDDLE

9:17 | EAST FOR FOUR YEARS?

9:18 | HE WANTS TO BE IN THE ROOM

9:20 | IS THAT PART OF HIS PERSONALITY

9:23 | OF THE CURIOUS MIND, THE

9:26 | THOUGHTFUL RORY McELROY?

9:32 | THIS IDEA OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY

9:34 | ULTIMATELY, WHATEVER EQUITY,

9:36 | IT’S ALWAYS GOING TO BE OF THE

9:39 | NET WORTH OF RORY.

9:43 | THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY TRUE.

9:46 | HE TO THE IDEA OF SOME KIND OF

9:49 | SANCTION OR SOME KIND OF

9:50 | BENEFIT FOR HIM.

9:53 | SANCTION OF HIS OPPONENTS OVER

9:54 | THE LAST FEW YEARS.

10:01 | A CLEANER OF WHERE THINGS

10:02 | SHOULD GO BUT IT’S NOT

10:03 | THE LOCKER ROOM.

10:04 | THERE IS A LOT OF PLAYERS WHO

10:06 | ARE INCENTIVIZED TO SEE SOME

10:07 | UNIFICATION BECAUSE THESE ARE

10:09 | GUYS YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO

10:12 | A BONUS THAT IS COMING TO THEM

10:14 | THAT MIGHT HAVE OTHERWISE.

10:19 | YOU ARE NOT NECESSARILY LOSING

10:21 | SPOTS TO GUYS COMING BACK.

10:22 | THERE ARE A LOT OF UNDERCURRENT

10:27 | AS TO WHY IT PLAYERS ON THE PGA

10:28 | TOUR OUTSIDE, INCLUDING ON A

10:29 | BOARD LEVEL MIGHT NOT

10:30 | NECESSARILY BE INCENTIVIZED TO

10:31 | SEE SOME KIND OF UNIFICATION.

10:32 | WHAT WE ARE EVOLVING INTO AND

10:34 | THIS BOARD ISSUE IS DANGEROUSLY

10:40 | CLOSE TO.

10:43 | NICE WORK BECAUSE THE SPONSORS

10:45 | ARE DRIFTING AWAY.

10:47 | THIS DINGHY GAME IS DANGEROUSLY

10:49 | IT IS REALLY NOT A GOOD SIGN

10:54 | FOR ANYONE MOVING FORWARD.

10:56 | >> SO MANY MOVING PARTS.

10:57 | WE WILL SEE IF RORY

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