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continuing on golf today how good was
this on Sunday at the Valar Championship
Peter melady carding that final round 67
was so clutch those final couple holes
to get his second career PGA Tour win
his first in 358 days we crunch the
numbers afterwards an emotional Malina
with our kir K
Dixon you wonder if you’re ever going to
do it again you know cuz it’s hard and
you know in the nine years since my last
win it’s gotten a lot harder too like if
you look like level of talent out here
guys coming out when they’re you know 20
years old and they’re ready to play on
this stage and they’re so good it’s just
I mean you
just you just wonder like and so to have
to have this moment H just it just feels
so amazing I mean
obviously you know my family Believes In
Me um I’ve got the best caddy he’s been
loyal to me for a long time through a
lot of like down times
too
um I’m just so thankful I’m just so
thankful
for my wife she makes this all possible
cuz life is hard like it’s obviously
glamorous at times like this and this is
my dream job and it’s absolutely amazing
but life is really really hard too when
you’re trying to figure out how to live
this lifestyle and have two kids and be
everything that you want to be it’s
really hard and my wife has been an
absolute Rock through all of it she’s
amazing and you I got my mom here my
family’s amazing little two little boys
like it’s
just this just feels so good it feels so
good all the feels for the malady family
we now have the man with us here on golf
today Peter malady joining us from the
Texas Children’s Houston open Peter
we’ve been talking about the scen on 18
after your win the time with your family
the interview with Kira the next day was
that a draining otally are you now
energized by where your game is at up to
65th in the
world yeah I mean completely both uh you
know just hearing the audio of what you
guys were just showing I can’t I can’t
see it but I mean I I definitely uh I
think it was the camera that made me
look a little misty-eyed I was pretty
stoic during that process I felt like um
but
uh oh you know to feel to feel all that
and then you know I’ve had now a couple
days to process it um it’s still pretty
it’s still pretty amazing and um you
know I got a little Misty eyed just
hearing that again thinking about that
moment and how how cool it was but um
but I am definitely um I’m energized by
the fact that you know I just played you
know a back nine on one of the tougher
courses on tour with a chance to win the
tournament and my game held up great so
that’s uh that’s super encouraging and
it it it makes me want to go do it again
in that interview with Kira Peter you
talked about you’re putting in the work
for years you’re not necessarily seeing
the results you want to see your Rivals
are coming out they’re younger they’re
longer they’re stronger was there a
point in that N9 years where you really
did start to believe that you weren’t
going to win
again um I I I never knew if I would win
again you know I I really didn’t um but
I I always
um you know I always believed like it
was my dream when I was you know a
teenager to play golf on the PGA tour
and I never stopped believing that I was
good enough to to have a successful
career and to stay out here on the PJ
tour and that that that to me um you
that that booed me and kept me going um
and you know no no one no one dreams of
being mediocre or staying you know at
the at the middle level like like I I I
knew that I I knew that I wanted to win
um you know and and the cool thing about
our sport is it’s so objective it is the
lowest score at the end of the week wins
it’s not you know it’s not who who hits
it the farthest who has the most
followers on Twitter it’s not any of
that it’s who who has the lowest score
and so all I could do is put in the work
do my best and then if you shoot the
lowest score you win and that’s you know
it it took me took me nine years to to
do that after the first time but I did
it last week and and that was that was
really cool Peter you have a reputation
among your peers as a guy who puts in
long hours puts in the work has been a
grinder quote unquote when you hear
players say that you’re a guy who’s like
maximized as much as he can you’re now a
two-time PGA Tour winner what’s your
response to
that uh Pride I feel proud of that um
and I agree with them like I I you know
I I I don’t think
um none of this has ever come super
easily to me I’ve always I’ve always
I’ve always worked really hard at it and
I’ve always actually for the most part
enjoyed that work um but I do think you
know
you know I’ve watched i i i i punish
myself daily when I’m home I practice um
out at the University of Tennessee’s
practice facility that’s where I live
and I practice and I watch these kids 18
19 20 years old and I think I’m like you
guys like if I hit balls on the range
between them I am the one who stands out
as being like you know less good and and
so I take a lot of pride in the fact
that I have scraped and clawed and and
and found my way um you know to to
maintain this this this dream job that I
have on the PJ tour and now um you know
shown that just just through that hard
work and and obviously it’s not I’m not
alone in that I have a lot of support
and a team around me that supports me
and a family that obviously does
everything um but you know as a whole
unit we we’ve we put in the work and and
and got the result without necessarily
having that you know that wow factor of
just uh Raw Talent like that feels that
feels like a great sense of
accomplishment to me you’re continuing a
trend we’re seeing this year Peter of a
lot of Davids winning on the PGA tour
not so many goliaths and this is
happening in a time when the goliaths
seem to be arguing that the tour needs
to be smaller that there need to be
fewer Davids out there do wins by guys
like you and and Grayson Murray and Nick
Dunlap do they in your mind undercut
that argument that the tour needs to be
smaller that there is a space for
everyone yes so I
mean obviously I
I’ve been an advocate for for the tour
being bigger um you know not not bigger
it’s big enough but for the tour not
shrinking I’ve been an advocate for that
I will say you know two two two truths
that maybe kind of competing ideas are
are true right now they both are we need
our top players to play golf together
more often we need that um we need the
the the people that fans want to see and
recognize we need them all playing
together at the same events more often
we also you can’t have big guys if you
don’t have little guys you don’t have
there are no goliaths without David’s um
so we need uh we need our Pathways to be
super strong to get guys to this top
level and we need Mobility between uh
between the top level and then that that
level just below it so that you always
have a steady stream of Davids to
challenge these goliaths and um you know
at the end of the day like when you look
at our uh you know when you look at I
think historically in the last however
many years you know how many guys have
won the PLAYERS Championship or the four
historical major championships from
outside the top 50 in the world it
doesn’t happen it just doesn’t happen
very much um and so like we we need
those top players they drive our
business but we also you don’t have top
players without Davis to challenge them
um and so so we need a strong pipeline
we need strong um you know mob ility
between the two uh the two Stratus and
um uh we got to have uh you know we need
we need both just that’s all there is to
it and we’re going to figure it out we
we already are figuring it out Peter
golf’s an inherently selfish game the
amount of hours that you have to put in
to spend time trying to maximize your
abilities and you hear guys when they’re
asked about what the future the tour
should look like it’s often self-serving
to some degree a lot of the big names
are saying all right let’s shrink it
make it smaller Fields then you hear
guys who are more middle of the road say
we need more opportunities it’s rare
that you hear bigname guy say we need
more opportunities or a guy who’s middle
of the road say let’s shrink it and
eliminate my potential job there I
haven’t really heard guys say let’s
think of what the fans want going
forward and what do they want to see do
they want 156 man Fields do they want
120 do they want 70 how do you strike
the right balance with all these varied
interests
yeah that that that is
um I’m glad that you asked me that
question but I’m also glad that we have
really really really smart people doing
a lot of research behind the scenes who
uh are going to get to the right answer
on that when I say that I’m you know you
know uh J Monahan and and his team uh in
Pont you know have they gotten
everything right in the last uh you know
two years no but no organization ever
does and you know we’ve been in a line
in a spotlight like like another he uh
he’s he has a capable team he’s a I mean
capable is not even the right word he
has an excellent team he’s a great
leader and they are working on that
exact question is how do we strike the
balance and get to the you know the
right the right the right field sizes
the right combination of big events
small events how do we do all that are
we there yet I don’t think anyone thinks
we are but are we evolving toward that I
think we I truly think we are and and
you know in the last uh two or three
months we’ve seen an extreme shift in
the focus be from you know how can we
protect how can we protect our top
players to how can we give the fans what
they want and then if we give the fans
what they want our business explodes and
then you know that’s how you protect the
top players so so the focus is on the
fans and that’s what all the research
they’re doing is going into and we’re
going to get to the right decisions and
we’re going to like this you know it’s
not like the PJ tour is a broken model
but it can be improved and it’s going to
be you’re now serving on two boards
Peter the policy board and the board of
the new for-profit entity pjer
Enterprises how sustainable is that
going to be for you and your fellow
player directors who are out there
trying to win tournaments in some cases
trying to keep their card to to continue
with that kind of time suck through the
course of this
year yeah as it existed through December
um and January it not sustainable at all
not in the least but um um you know I
think this is a natural EB and flow um
you know we saw everyone saw it was very
public um you know the the secret
announcement that came out on June 6th
last year of a framework agreement um
that was you know sort of sprung on the
PJ tour membership the PGA Tour fan base
everybody when that happened there was a
massive shift and um you know a lot of
power and responsibility was given to
players on the DJ tour as it needed to
be because that was uh you know that
that decision was not handled in the way
that it should have been um so for
several months a lot was asked of and
demanded of the players and and quite
rightly so that was led by players
players wanted control you know we we
added tiger to the board um we we made
we made those decisions to get power
back into the hands of the players in a
player uh a player run organization um
but the truth the matter is players on
the PGA tour we for this tour to thrive
and be what is we need to be focused on
our job which is out on the golf course
um and you know we’re now seeing that
that that sort of power shift back to
kind of an equilibrium where you know we
have the leaders in place now that we
trust to do a great job and lead the
tour we have the right players in the
room to give guidance when it’s needed
and I think we’re going to arrive at a
place where it actually is quite
sustainable because we have leaders who
will lean on us for input when they need
it um but we’ll also take the Reigns and
run the business of the PJ tour while we
work on being the product of the PJ tour
which is what our fans really want they
want us on the course competing they
don’t want us sitting in a boardroom and
Peter finally before we let you go you
went from the players to a meeting in
the Bahamas to then winning at the
valpar championship now you’re here at
Houston uh how did your mindset shift at
all before the Bahamas to then after
that meeting with the player directors
in yaser and then also golf fans are
curious you heard about the SSG all
these Heavy Hitters 1.5 billion coming
into the PGA Tour any gauge how long
they’re going to be in stealth mode
before we have an idea what the
Direction’s going to look
like um I would just say um you know
obviously pretty complex stuff of
course I I don’t think stealth mode is
necessarily the I I get that everyone
wants more information they want to know
but everything that is going on behind
the scenes now is focused on putting a
better product out on the course and so
you know when we’re um you know when
we’re here in in Houston this week and
we got the you know the Astros golf
foundation and Texas Children’s Hospital
like the the product on the course is is
obviously I I hope it’s been thrilling
watching you know Scotty win a close
Players Championship hope some people
got a thrill out of watching you know
the David the David story and me last
week winning there that vbar um you know
I I think there is a ton of work going
on behind the scenes but what’s uh it’s
it’s all to support this product that we
have on the course and uh I think I
think the focus is going to be on that
and I think um I think for our fans it’s
going to be extremely exciting just to
see the product on the course is going
to get better and better and better um
because of the work that’s going on
behind the scenes and um you know as we
as we understand things better we’ll
come out and we’ll we’ll we’ll be able
to communicate in ways that make sense
but it’s all it’s all going to be
focused on getting the product on the
course to where it needs to be so that
our fans have something that they’re
excited to watch every every you know
Thursday through Sunday Peter I couldn’t
let you go without an Mis play well this
week and hey maybe make it two in a row
like we saw Scotty just do and winning
back-to-back
starts I mean it seems easy to
me