Pro’s Emotional Interview Highlights 1 Truth PGA Tour Must Answer

When Scottie Scheffler scored his sixth victory of the season at the Procore Championship Sunday (he played in one game, he played next week’s Ryder Cup, Lanto Griffin played in one season, it was his emotions that overcame people, thinking about where he’s been and where he could have been.

Griffin, a 37-year-old professional who broke his L5-S1 disc in 2020 and had to undergo a microscopic examination in 2022. Last season, Griffin only had the top 10 in 22 games. He ranked 158th in the FedEx Cup Fall standings but won the PGA Tour Q-School to retain his full PGA Tour membership.

Griffin’s 2025 season was tough. He finished T9 at the Farmers Insurance Open and then missed four of the next six layoffs.

“Sometimes, when you work hard and handle the wrong thing, you get worse, and that’s what happens,” Griffin shot 65 on Sunday to finish solo third. “My work ethics haven’t changed. I kind of took the wrong path and it went backwards.”

After quitting the Kantara Championship, Griffin returned to TPC Sawgrass’s old coach Todd Anderson. He also began working with athletic performance director Alex Bennett. In the season-end Wyndham Championship, T14 of the Barracuda and T23 of the T23 put Griffin 142 into the standings of the FedEx Cup fall and needed some magic to crack the top 100 to maintain its total exemption status.

The Californian opened on Thursday’s Procore Championship with a 65-shot below 65 before opening the game with 70 and 71 rounds. He entered the final round of 54-hole leader Ben Griffin’s final round in Sunday’s final round, but he won 30 turns at the 30-year-old in six of his first eight holes and won his first game since his debut in 2019. Griffin made two more birdies on the back, under 17 years old, and behind the marker set by Scheffler two shots.

Griffin’s hot Sunday put him at No. 98 in the FedEx Cup fall rankings, currently keeping the card in the numbers.

“It’s big,” Griffin told NBC’s Kira K. Dixon after the round. “One of my goals this week is to give myself a chance [to get into the Baycurrent Classic]. Hopefully I’m there now, we have [six] The rest of the game. Obviously you want to win, but keep your job…I went to Q School last year and somehow won my life [of my career]. This week, it all comes together anyway. Be shorter.

“A little bit hopeful that Scottie isn’t here, but I know all the fans love it. Just be proud of yourself. ………… Golf is so fun and bad golf is very cruel in your heart. I’ve done a lot of hard work in the last five weeks since Wyndham, so it’s great to see it blend together.”

Scheffler and runner-up Ben Griffin are the only players leading at Lanto Griffin, two of the 10 American Ryder Cup players in the field, which adds juice to the usual sleepy fall game. Despite the emotional interviews by Lanto Griffin and his public recognition that in the field, Scheffler highlights the issues that the PGA Tour must eventually solve.

When new CEO Brian Rolapp spoke at the Tour Championship, he talked about the need for the PGA Tour to abide by his three guiding principles: competitive parity, scarcity and simplicity. Rolapp comes from the NFL, one thing that the NFL does better than all other sports leagues is creating narratives that are easy to follow and invest in.

As our guide, let’s take a look at what’s going on in the FedEx Cup Fall Slate, Lanto Griffin, and Procore Championship.

As is currently built, the FedEx Cup Fall offers two purposes: It’s a tool that attempts to enter the first two signature games of the next season for players outside the FedEx Cup’s top 50, and it shapes the tour members next season.

If Rolapp is looking for simplicity in its products, then Sunday’s affairs in Napa would become easier to digest and understand without Scheffler, Ben Griffin and other teams in the U.S. The bet can be defined more clearly if those in the field are either expanding their careers or improving their tours. Instead, the 2025 Procore is a long-standing mix of the status quo and purebred state of the PGA Tour, and it has discovered itself since it reinvented instantly after the arrival of Liv Golf.

Rolapp hammered the importance of competition and winning the attention of people in the age of Doom, and he promised to make a big change if needed. If he wants to follow his old employer’s model, clean up the FedEx Cup Fall Slate to make the masses easier to digest, it’s a great place to understand and focus on all sports fans after he found a way to create a playoff model.

If the FedEx Cup bet is more clearly defined, the product will be promoted. It is easy to understand that Player X needs to win to keep working, and Player Y needs to do Z to be eligible for Marquee events. But when you X and Y happen X and Y, the situation gets muddy, and the top players occasionally show up to participate in salary, make a salary on sponsorship agreements, or in this case prepare for events that PGA Tour doesn’t even have.

All of this leads to questions you don’t want people to ask: What does this mean?

Sunday’s event in Napa may be full of drama as Griffin tries to win a second career victory while others try to catch up on their way to catch up. Instead, we had an interesting duel between Scheffler and Ben Griffin, ending with the world No. 1, and bringing back another trophy to talk about how he felt for Ryder Cup and was unwilling to return to Napa to defend the title. Given that he doesn’t usually compete, it makes sense.

Rolapp looked under the hood, with a lot on his plate and tried to polish and fine-tune the PGA Tour product with his three principles as guidance lights. But as he begins to offer “significant changes,” the Wineland event is a great example of how Pro Golf makes its products easier to understand and more appealing to both die-hard golf fans and casual sports fans: clearly define the bets, create an easy-to-follow narrative, and use a range of simplicity, scarcity, scarcity, scarcity and competitiveness to give you the edge of your plan.