Golf Channel Podcast with Rex & Lav

0:30: A big announcement: We're coming to your TV screens! 02:30: Rex's first TGL TV hit did not go according to plan 04:00: The best parts of TGL's opening night 13:00: Criticisms, concerns and questions after the first match 28:00: Is this just the start for TGL?

01:00: Hideki Matsuyama shows when he's capable of – when healthy 09:30: Collin Morikawa drops an F-bomb after finishing 2nd, and he's got a point! 16:00: Low scoring abounds at Kapalua for the season opener 20:30: Lav's radical idea for how to revamp the first event of the year 26:00: Speaking of changes, the Tour is considering tweaking the format at East Lake 38:00: Other news from the week, including Scottie, Xander and Viktor 48:00: A single listener question 50:00: Coming to you live Tuesday from the TGL debut

0:00: We're ready to get ratio'd again! 01:30: Will golf's civil war end in 2025? 05:00: 2025 Player of the Year 07:00: Newcomer of the Year 09:30: Surprise(s) of the Year 12:00: 2025 Masters champion 14:00: 2025 PGA champion 17:00: 2025 U.S. Open champion 20:00: 2025 Open champion 23:00: Ryder Cup winner

0:00: Introducing Brads, the "Talk about your round" media guy 05:30: Brads' TV resume, and how he's now a critical part of what you see on the air 10:00: What happened the day Scottie Scheffler was arrested at the PGA 13:00: Some of the other craziest days of his TV career 16:00: How the Johnson Wagner segments come to be 24:00: What happens with the major winners after the 72nd hole 30:00: Most surprising interviews of the year 34:00: Rapid fire: Best/worst interviews, bucket list work stop, etc.

0:00: Top player is ... obvious 04:00: Breakout players 07:00: Biggest disappointments 12:00: On-the-rise players for 2025 15:30: Feel-good stories 18:00: Shot of the year contenders 22:00: Biggest surprises 25:00: Favorite personal moment covering the game in 2024

0:00: Rex's on-the-ground impressions of Tiger Woods 07:00: Stop us if you've heard this before: Tiger looked better physically than anticipated 13:00: Approaching Tiger's 49th birthday, a look at his Champions Tour prospects 17:00: What makes the PNC a better watch than the contrived Showdown-type matches 23:00: Rex & Lav's holiday plans, including a troubling Christmas-Day tradition

0:30: Our thoughts on the highly anticipated Tour-vs.-LIV match in Vegas 11:30: Rex's initial impressions during TGL media day 13:30: Billy Horschel joins the pod! Discussing TGL's upcoming launch 31:00: More of Rex's thoughts on TGL, with the teaser we'll be on-site in early January 35:30: Why the PGA of America opted to pay U.S. Ryder Cuppers 42:00: What the new PGA Tour CEO job really means 48:00: Rex's unfortunate encounter with a bear?

0:00: Scottie Scheffler closes out the year with win No. 9 04:00: Scottie turns up with a new putting grip – and it works 12:00: Evaluating what's possible (and realistic) for Scheffler in 2025 20:00: How will Scheffler's accomplishments be remembered in this fractured landscape? 24:00: What to make of LIV's free-agent offseason 32:00: Tiger Woods signs up for the PNC, after all

0:00: Newsy week so far in the golf world 02:00: Takeaways from being in the room for Tiger Woods' presser 05:30: Tiger's back was more of an issue than he let on in 2024 09:00: Woods reprises his role as Tour spokesman 13:30: Possibility of a separate DP World Tour/PIF agreement? 16:00: Ryder Cup pay-for-play controversy continues 21:00: Scottie is back! 24:30: LIV rumor mill is heating up (again) ... 27:30: #PrayForRex

0:00: Rex recaps his week in Sea Island, including a TV stint on a ship? 08:00: Joel Dahmen, Daniel Berger highlight the fight for top-125 status 17:00: What, if anything, was missing from the season finale 20:30: Luke Clanton looks and sounds like a Tour player already 27:00: Tiger won't play at the Hero – but he will talk 31:00: Thanksgiving plans for the guys, including a play-by-play of Lav's turkey prep

0:00: Live from the Dawg House, where Lav is celebrating a Georgia W 01:30: Does Rory McIlroy's 4th win change the way we think about his year? 09:00: U.S. Ryder Cup team members appear set to get paid. Is that a problem? 15:30: Listener question: Who is an off-the-radar future Ryder Cupper? 18:30: PGA Tour policy board approves the changes – here's what it means 26:30: What to watch for at the RSM – and a possible way to improve the season finale

0:00: Rory looks to end another year as the European No. 1 06:30: What does McIlroy's Tour schedule reduction really mean? 15:00: The European tour is already looking ahead to 2026. Here's what we want to see then. 21:00: Caitlin Clark takes center stage at an LPGA pro-am – and hopefully makes a statement 31:00: We're taking the pod on the road next week in Sea Island!

0:00: Lav bails on his TV appearance for a "family emergency" 03:00: Rory believes another Trump presidency could be helpful in the ongoing Tour-PIF talks 10:30: What to make of the tabloid report from the weekend that a peace deal is already done 15:00: McIlroy goes to unusual lengths to make a swing change 28:30: Rex and Lav bicker over college football rankings and their fantasy football matchup

0:00: Biggest takeaways to the news that the Tour will be reducing membership, field sizes 09:00: The unintended consequences of the proposed move 13:00: Is 100 the right number of fully exempt players? 18:00: Smaller-ticket items, like signature event point allocation and Monday qualifiers 28:00: Is the FedExCup fall working – and if not, what should be changed? 36:00: What we'd add to spruce up the fall schedule

0:00: Why the Zozo Championship goes against the ethos of the FedExCup Fall 07:00: Rex recalls the 2019 edition of the event, won by Tiger Woods 12:00: Other storylines this week from Japan 14:00: Exploring TGL's strategy for not having Tiger and Rory during the 2025 debut 24:00: Wyndham Clark's comments about LIV Golf caught Rex's attention 31:00: Rex and Lav's recent golf exploits

0:00: Rex almost got canceled at a Halloween party 04:00: What the SBJ report about Greg Norman's potential successor means 12:00: The Ryder Cup ticket price debate 23:30: Matt McCarty's reign of terror continues – but should he be in the Masters?

0:00: Should Keegan Bradley put an end to the playing-captain talk? 09:00: Will an emotional, anxious personality like Bradley make a good captain? 13:30: Potentially unruly Bethpage Black fans have the attention of the PGA of America 20:30: Is the Ryder Cup's home-field advantage too significant? 24:00: Biggest challenges ahead for captains Bradley and Luke Donald 30:00: Rex cuts short his NYC boondoggle to return to his loving family in Florida

0:00: Rex & Lav discuss their day at the Furyk & Friends pro-am with Eric Axley 07:30: Why this week's Dunhill Links on the DP World Tour feels like old times 12:00: Mapping out what a worldwide schedule could look like 17:30: What to read into the Jay Monahan/Yasir Al-Rumayyan pairing in Scotland

0:00: Something has to change at the Presidents Cup 07:30: What we're writing Sunday from Royal Montreal 13:00: What worked so well for the Americans this week 20:30: Standout performers on the U.S. and International side 26:30: Biggest disappointments from the week 33:00: Lasting memory from the Presidents Cup

0:00: What history tells us about this 11-7 margin by the Americans 03:00: The message that Jim Furyk should deliver to the team 06:00: What to make of International captain Mike Weir's lineup decisions 10:00: Standout performers and performances from Day 3 13:30: After lusty celebrations himself, Tom Kim cries foul 19:00: Breaking down the Sunday singles lineup, and a final score prediction