"So many times I wanted to give up as a caddie. Staying persistent, it ended up working out."
Cole Sherwood's caddie, Josh McCray has been caddying for five years.
He got his first win on the bag this week @ColonialLifeCC.
If I could change one thing about the pga tour it would be this:
Stop covering the Korn Ferry Tour as a set of golf tournaments. Stop putting it on TV as a traditional golf tournament. Stop showing wedge shots on socials from a guy 99% of golf fans don’t know.
And use KFT only as telling stories and marketing future pga tour players. On TV, on socials, and in articles. Tell us why we should care about Emilio Gonzalez or SH Kim, or Chandler Blanchet. Tell us about Emilio growing up in Mexico, SH changing his life at a Monday Q in Korea, or Chandler’s wife who has held the family together while Chandler grinded on mini-tours.
All of those guys will be on the PGA Tour next year, and 99.99% of golf fans don’t know a thing about them.
In my time covering pro golf I’ve never heard other players, broadcasters, etc talk about other players like they do about Johnny Keefer. Yet what do we know about him? Sure, some might know he’s won twice, but lots of players have won twice on KFT, tell us why people think he’s different.
When he wins on the pga tour next season (and he will) we shouldn’t have a majority of fans learn about him that week.
Every major sports organization writes a top prospect article. Every single one….except for one. Why not? Wouldn’t that be great on a KFT broadcast, knowing that a player is #3 prospect. And I’m not talking points, KFT doesn’t graduate the best players. Just pure talent.
I’m a casual baseball fan, I don’t follow the minor leagues closely but when a team calls up the #1 prospect, I pay attention.
The fact is almost no one cares about the KFT, and i get it. A part of that is the Tour has tried to cover it as a golf tour. Instead they should treat it as a huge marketing arm of the pga tour.
Rant over.
Listen I love having a little fun with the Tour too but let’s not act like they suspended play at the Farmers for a light breeze. Some very questionable hole locations given the conditions
Behind-the-scenes stories from reigning @KornFerryTour Player of the Year @mattmccarty21's run of 4 wins in 10 starts .. which led him to @TheSentry this week
"When you tell Matt something, he assimilates it quickly ... it's the way learning ought to be"
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