Titus O'Reilly
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20,909 appearances
34 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Titus O'Reilly’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We should have a world tour.
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So he starts putting together this sort of plan for a world tour of golf.
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This is in 1994.
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1994.
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Meanwhile, the PGA is under real trouble because the Federal Trade Commission is starting to look into it and say, you are using monopoly power and you are stopping golfers being able to play in other tournaments.
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Right.
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Much like they stopped the Sinatra one a long time ago.
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They're stopping, if anyone else tries to set up other ones, they say, if you go and play in that other tournament, you're off the PGA Tour.
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And this is seen as a restraint of trade in America.
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Sure.
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They suddenly learn that the FTC lawyers are investigating them and they may be in big trouble.
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So this is all confronting the PGA Tour Commissioner, Tim Fincham.
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And so as he's battling the Federal Trade Commission, he also is hearing that Greg Norman is about to make this pitch for a world tour.
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The two going well isn't good because if he says he can't play in the world tour, that almost proves to the Federal Trade Commission that they're a straight in trade, right?
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Yeah.
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On November 15, 1994, he decides, anyway, just send a memo to the PGA Tour players.
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If any of you go to this world tour, you won't pay paying on the PGA Tour.
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So he just plays hardball.
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Greg Norman announces that he is planning to start an eight-event world golf tour for 1995, and he's got Fox Sports behind him.
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Rupert Murdoch has come on board and said, we'll fund it.
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