Lucas Glover is certainly not a shrinking violet when it comes to issues on the PGA Tour.
Glover is well-known for speaking his mind on a wide-ranging number of issues.
The 45-year-old has made his feelings clear on certain aspects of life on the PGA Tour this season already.
Glover demanded change from the PGA Tour and the rest of golf’s governing bodies when it comes to the way in which driver testing is conducted.
The 2009 US Open champion speaks very passionately, and indeed eloquently about the issues he believes need addressing.
Glover is also an advocate for a quicker pace of play on the PGA Tour, and he will definitely be on the right side of history in that regard.
If there was one player who was going to ask the newly announced PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp a challenging question, it was always going to be Glover.
Lucas Glover loves what PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp is going to do next week
Glover met with Rolapp before the start of the Travelers Championship this week.
And in typical Glover fashion, he didn’t beat around the bush when asking the new PGA Tour CEO a question that he felt needed to be asked.
He explained: “The one question I asked when I met him in person. So we’re here at the Travelers Championship, and we’ve only got 72 guys here. I guess by design the 72 top players at the very moment on the PGA Tour, however you want to look at that. But then next week, you’ve got a full field event at the Rocket Mortgage in Detroit, so my brain immediately went to those guys who aren’t lucky to be here, are they going to get this opportunity (to meet and speak with Rolapp). And I asked him, ‘Any chance you’re going to Detroit next week?’, and he goes, ‘I am’, and that thrilled me.“
“We’re covering all of our bases here, if you’re going to meet the top guys, you’ve got to meet the rest of the membership too. I’ve been beating that drum for a long time that the Tour is the whole membership, not just the top guys. That made my day to hear that he was going to go to basically have the same meeting next week and meet the whole membership, or as many as possible.“
How Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy reacted to Brian Rolapp appointment
It goes without saying that golf fans were keen to hear the views of the best two players on the planet regarding Rolapp’s appointment.
And just before the Travelers Championship began, both Scheffler and McIlroy had their say on the matter.
Scheffler said, “What do I hope to see? I think it’s exciting to have some new leadership. I think Brian will bring some good energy. Literally the first time I heard him speak was yesterday, so I really don’t know much about him. I liked what I heard yesterday.
“I think our board and Jay and everybody put a lot of research into finding his successor, and to be able to get somebody from the NFL, especially somebody high up at the NFL, I think is pretty cool. The NFL is obviously a very successful organization. He’s got a lot of experience and some new thought processes he can bring to the TOUR, and I think it’s exciting.“
He was then asked whether he thinks the PGA Tour membership is unanimously on board with the appointment of Rolapp.
Scheffler responded, “I really have no idea. I didn’t even get to meet Brian yesterday. I had to leave the meeting a couple minutes early. It went a little longer than I thought it would, and I had to sneak out at the last second. So I didn’t even get a chance to meet him, let alone talk to anybody else about a new commissioner or anything like that.
“We had heard some rumblings that that was going to happen yesterday morning, but it really only happened a day ago. So I haven’t really heard the temperature. I assume it’s all good things. I liked what I got to hear yesterday, so I would assume that’s pretty much the opinion of most people in the room.
“There definitely wasn’t anybody grumbling or shouting or anything like that, so it seemed like all good news.“
Then McIlroy was asked to deliver his opinion on the news that Rolapp is set to lead the PGA Tour into a new era.
The Northern Irishman said, “I haven’t met Brian yet, but obviously I followed quite a bit of the news and the coverage yesterday. He certainly said all the right things and has an amazing background, two decades in the NFL, helping them expand internationally and basically become the behemoth that they have become.
“So for him to bring that experience to the PGA TOUR I think will be amazing, and I think it’s great that Jay is there to help with the smooth transition also. Yeah, I think it’s a really positive thing for the TOUR.“
It’s clear to see that the PGA Tour is heading in the right direction, and Rolapp should bring some real fresh insight to the table that has been desperately needed for quite some time now.
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