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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – The Lucas Glover Show on Sirius/XM Radio’s PGA Tour Network (channel 92) is no more.
Glover, the 2009 U.S. Open champion and six-time Tour champ, had hosted the show since Dec. 6, 2023, and never held back with his honest thoughts on a myriad of topics that often created its share of buzz. Here's a sampling:
Glover, 46, was recently chosen for the Tour’s 16-man Player Advisory Council and was elected chairman, which means he will replace Adam Scott as a player director on the Tour’s for-profit and non-profit boards for the next three years starting in 2027. It’s a role that may have concerned the Tour with Glover doing a regular show on its channel in the future, but he said it was his decision to stop doing it with longtime agent Mac Barnhardt as his co-host. So, why did Glover shutter the show, which ran for the last two years and developed a cult following of those interested in hearing the thoughts of one of the Tour’s most opinionated and straightest shooters?
“I got a little grumpy. It started out being fun and jovial and then it turned into complaining about issues at the Tour. That’s not why I started doing it and not where I wanted it to go,” Glover said. “It made for some good entertainment, but I wanted it to be more fun. It didn’t feel like it was me, it wasn’t my personality coming out.”
Glover developed a popular segment titled, “Get off my Lawn,” where he tackled everything from slow play on Tour to people who drive too slow in the left lane.
“It started out fun and light. Inevitably, the entire show turned into that. Three of the four segments would morph into me complaining about something on the Tour. I didn’t want it to be that. I wasn’t asked not to do it,” he said.
It’s a loss for those golf fans who enjoyed rare insights from a Tour player perspective, a deep thinker with a Southern drawl who has been there and done that during 24 years as a pro. But Glover ended the conversation about his show with a positive spin. “I’ll probably do it again,” he said.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Lucas Glover ends his Sirius/XM golf radio show
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Glover, the 2009 U.S. Open champion and six-time Tour champ, had hosted the show since Dec. 6, 2023, and never held back with his honest thoughts on a myriad of topics that often created its share of buzz. Here's a sampling:
- On players having more votes than the independent directors on the Tour: “They don’t tell us how to hit 7-irons. We shouldn’t be telling them how to run a business.”
- On the Caves Valley course renovation: “I feel sorry for the members that have to play that now, because it’s virtually unplayable.”
- On driver testing at Tour events: "Most guys don't give their real driver anyway."
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Glover, 46, was recently chosen for the Tour’s 16-man Player Advisory Council and was elected chairman, which means he will replace Adam Scott as a player director on the Tour’s for-profit and non-profit boards for the next three years starting in 2027. It’s a role that may have concerned the Tour with Glover doing a regular show on its channel in the future, but he said it was his decision to stop doing it with longtime agent Mac Barnhardt as his co-host. So, why did Glover shutter the show, which ran for the last two years and developed a cult following of those interested in hearing the thoughts of one of the Tour’s most opinionated and straightest shooters?
“I got a little grumpy. It started out being fun and jovial and then it turned into complaining about issues at the Tour. That’s not why I started doing it and not where I wanted it to go,” Glover said. “It made for some good entertainment, but I wanted it to be more fun. It didn’t feel like it was me, it wasn’t my personality coming out.”
Glover developed a popular segment titled, “Get off my Lawn,” where he tackled everything from slow play on Tour to people who drive too slow in the left lane.
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“It started out fun and light. Inevitably, the entire show turned into that. Three of the four segments would morph into me complaining about something on the Tour. I didn’t want it to be that. I wasn’t asked not to do it,” he said.
It’s a loss for those golf fans who enjoyed rare insights from a Tour player perspective, a deep thinker with a Southern drawl who has been there and done that during 24 years as a pro. But Glover ended the conversation about his show with a positive spin. “I’ll probably do it again,” he said.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Lucas Glover ends his Sirius/XM golf radio show
Continue reading...
