Lucas Glover is ending his eponymous show on Sirius/XM Radio’s PGA Tour Network, which he has hosted since 2023. The reason?
“I got a little grumpy,” Glover told Golfweek’s Adam Schupak. “It started out being fun and jovial and then it turned into complaining about issues at the Tour. That’s not why I started doing it and not where I wanted it to go. It made for some good entertainment, but I wanted it to be more fun. It didn’t feel like it was me, it wasn’t my personality coming out.”
Ahead of the show’s debut in late 2023, the six-time Tour winner and 2009 U.S. Open champion said having his own show was something he’d wanted to do since his win at Bethpage Black.
“Now, having experienced all I have through my career,” Glover said on the show’s promotion page online, “I’m ready and looking forward to sharing lots of stories, lessons learned and opinions on our game.”
“The Lucas Glover Show” had an hour-long time slot was described as a forum where Glover would share a perspective you couldn’t get anywhere else, including stories from his career and “his unique take on today’s game.”
Glover delivered on that promise, offering unfiltered opinions on many topics over the last two-plus years, ranging from critiques of the Tour’s internal structure, thoughts on course renovations, Tour equipment testing and whether or not LIV players should be welcomed back into the PGA Tour fold.
One popular segment of the show was called “Get Off My Lawn,” where Glover was free to unleash on whatever topic of the moment irked him.
“It started out fun and light. Inevitably, the entire show turned into that,” Glover told Schupak. “Three of the four segments would morph into me complaining about something on the Tour. I didn’t want it to be that.”
Another mitigating factor? Glover was recently elected chairman of the Tour’s 16-man Player Advisory Council — a position he’ll serve for the next three years. Hosting a show with a reputation for criticizing the Tour may not gel well with his new responsibilities, but Glover said the decision to end the show, which he hosted alongside his longtime agent, Mac Barnhardt, was his alone.
“I wasn’t asked not to do it,” he told Schupak.
While Sirius/XM’s roster of talent includes recognizable names in golf like Rocco Mediate, Annika Sorenstam, Johnson Wagner and Smylie Kaufman, Glover was the only host who also doubled as an active player, so his perspective will be sorely missed by the show’s fans.
Still, Glover says his current decision doesn’t have to be forever.
“I’ll probably do it again,” he said.
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