PGA Tour has asked John Deere to shift tournament in the future from Quad Cities to Chicago, per @AdamSchupak.
This comes as PGA Tour looks to move "track one" schedule to new markets.
@Stitch_Head@CalPolyBSB@WVUBaseball Bro WVU was playing until 2am ET in Arizona two weeks ago. We've been playing the time zone game in all sports longer than anyone since we went to the Big 12. Save it
Kyle and I had a really challenging existence for many years. But we luckily took the time to figure out our differences and that was something he instigated with a conversation in his bus around how we each managed our racing teams. I was super eager for us to get on better terms. But it was he who made the effort for that to be possible. We did some media together also to laugh through some of the things we put each other through many years ago. Most recently we had even been discussing him running my Late Model at Wilkesboro this summer. He seemed extremely happy and we had planned to meet up next Thursday to get his seat to the shop. He laughed over the idea of his fans and JRM fans having to cheer in unison during that race.
Kyle was one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. No one can deny that. But he was also a father, a husband, brother, son, and a friend to many. My heart is broken for the Busch family. I will never be able to make sense of this loss but I am thankful that we had found a way to become friends.
Good morning, Damon. I talked with Gary Player this past week at Aronimink about being 90, about Ozempic, about Winston Churchill, about socialism, about the future of LIV and what it was like to fly with Arnie. “I’d be on the floor about to crap myself!” https://t.co/sItngH8ksr
Every time these conversations start we go in circles, but two things can be true:
1) It is harder financially to get ahead than it was for previous generations
2) Many young people have insane issues with overconsumption and it's become so normalized they don't even realize
🚨 Little bit of golf industry news…
TaylorMade is pivoting from its current 12-month product cycle to a new 24-month one.
In other words, there won’t be a new driver from them next January. They’ll now be releasing a new one every other year.
The decision has been made for a number of reasons, including (but not limited to):
1.
The success of Qi4D
The immediate and almost unanimous validation of the current line has created what TaylorMade is calling “a new marketplace opportunity”. Basically, they want to give a seriously high-performing product more time to shine. Any why not?
2.
More meaningful leaps in innovation
A longer development runaway will allow TaylorMade’s R&D team the bandwidth to come up with genuinely meaningful, noticeable and significant performance leaps, as opposed to the current trend of incremental upgrades ("this driver goes one yard further" etc).
3.
Fitter mastery is a thing
Longer product lifecycles will create a platform for better education, fitter feedback and recommendations. “Every chef has a favourite knife” and all that.
4.
More time for golfers to fall in love
TaylorMade wants you to "trust and love" their products. They understand that the best route to achieving this comes from familiarity. They’ve seen historical success in longer adoption curves for irons, putters and wedges. Now, they want to bring that to the longest end of the bag.
My tuppence
This is a smart, shrewd move. When you have a product as high-performing as Qi4D, why wouldn’t you keep in the spotlight for longer?
TaylorMade, perhaps more than any other OEM, has also been widely criticised for bringing out new drivers every year. This decision should be warmly received by consumers, and ought to put lots of credit in their bank.
It will be fascinating to see whether other OEMs on a 12-month cycle follow suit