Premier Golf League CEO Opens Up On Proposed New Tour
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2020-02-25
By NICK PIASTOWSKI, Golf.com
In rejection, came resolve.
In 2014, Andy Gardiner, then an early 40s director at Barclays Capital, had found his business dealings giving him a seat and a drink right next to his pleasure ones. And so the golf fan asked the golf executives the golf question that had been sitting atop his mental tee for quite some time.
“You’ve got to do the world tour — please. Why haven’t you done it yet?” the London-based Gardiner remembers. “And the answer was — I won’t give you the precise words — but it will never happen and it won’t ever happen.”
Gardiner went home. He wrote. And sleep be damned, he wrote for three straight days. In that manifesto became the outline for the Premier Golf League, a concept that he believes will alter the way you view professional golf at every level, the players, the prize money, the format, the courses, the existing tours — even how the players dress.
In resolve, came revolution.