Lucas Glover would like to see the PGA Tour get back to its roots, when its tagline used to be "charity is the winner."
As a past champion of this week's John Deere Classic, Glover joined "Golf Today" on Golf Channel on Wednesday and was his usual candid self.
Glover, who won the JDC in 2021, said he'd like the PGA Tour to focus more of its energies on the good deeds its doing in the communities where they play rather than so much talk about player greed and the gobs of money they are playing for on a weekly basis.
When asked by host Eamon Lynch how he'd like to see the Tour invest the $1.5 billion from private equity partner SSG, Glover said he didn't know enough about the Tour's financials to make an educated guess. Glover is the chairman of the Player Advisory Council this season and is slated to join the Tour's board as a player director (replacing Adam Scott) in January. He hinted at one of his pet projects when he begins serving his term.
"I'd like to see a little more awareness and commitment to the charities that the tournament supports," Glover said. "I think we've lost a little bit of that with the influx of money and the signature series and things like that. I plan to let that be known when I get on the board that I think that should be a focus again is how much we actually do for the communities that we're in and what that means to be able to do that."
As a past champion of this week's John Deere Classic, Glover joined "Golf Today" on Golf Channel on Wednesday and was his usual candid self.
Glover, who won the JDC in 2021, said he'd like the PGA Tour to focus more of its energies on the good deeds its doing in the communities where they play rather than so much talk about player greed and the gobs of money they are playing for on a weekly basis.
When asked by host Eamon Lynch how he'd like to see the Tour invest the $1.5 billion from private equity partner SSG, Glover said he didn't know enough about the Tour's financials to make an educated guess. Glover is the chairman of the Player Advisory Council this season and is slated to join the Tour's board as a player director (replacing Adam Scott) in January. He hinted at one of his pet projects when he begins serving his term.
"I'd like to see a little more awareness and commitment to the charities that the tournament supports," Glover said. "I think we've lost a little bit of that with the influx of money and the signature series and things like that. I plan to let that be known when I get on the board that I think that should be a focus again is how much we actually do for the communities that we're in and what that means to be able to do that."
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