Last month, Gary McCord was packing up a few odds and ends at his summer home in Colorado when he stumbled across an old, leather-bound briefcase and sat down to rummaged through it. What he ...
If there’s anyone who knows a thing or two about the inner-workings of the PGA Tour, it’s Gary McCord. The 77-year-old played in more than 400 tournaments before spending three decades as a golf ...
As the PGA Tour prepares to enact massive changes in the coming years, including a reduction in the number of fully-exempt players, former Tour pro and TV analyst Gary McCord is reminded of a time in ...
One of the joys of listening to Gary McCord and Peter Kostis’ podcast, “Off Their Rockers”, a GOLF Production, is the opportunity to experience peak storytelling from the duo’s decades-long careers in ...
More than 40 years after spearheading what became the all-exempt tour that has become the model for all of professional golf, Gary McCord has brainstormed a new business model for the PGA Tour. “Forty ...
TUCSON, ARIZONA - NOVEMBER 27: Gary McCord looks on prior to Capital One's The Match: Champions For Change at Stone Canyon Golf Club on November 27, 2020 in Oro Valley, Arizona. (Photo by Christian ...
In 1989, Ray Floyd expressed hope that the PGA Tour might shave 25 spots from its annual all-exempt structure that it had instituted seven years earlier. Floyd argued that the all-exempt tour, in ...
BLAINE, MN - JULY 10: Gary McCord tees off the 1st hole during the first round of the 3M Championship held at the TPC Twin Cities on July 10, 2009 in Blaine, Minnesota. (Photo by Marc Feldman/Getty ...
Gary McCord tilts back in his chair and laughs. “Oh, man,” he says, pausing for just a beat, the whiskers of his famed snow-white mustache curled into a grin. “Well, there’s a billion of them.” The ...
Pinehurst No. 2’s 16th hole is a long, daunting, and extremely challenging par-4 that measures a whopping 536 yards — so it’d surely have an average golfer like you or me shaking in our golf shoes ...
The 1998 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne in Australia has the distinction of being the only Cup won by the International team in the biennial event’s 30-year history — and it was quite a shellacking ...