Robert Garrigus didn’t hold back when the PGA Tour announced its latest change. The one-time Tour winner, with 384 career starts under his belt, took a direct jab at Jordan Spieth, saying, “So, does that mean one more sponsor invite for Jordan Spieth? Tell Spieth I’ll play him for any amount he wants. I win, I get his five invites to the Signature events.”
It wasn’t just a throwaway dig. Garrigus’s frustration came from years of watching the same pattern play out — players like Spieth, despite slumping form, continuing to receive sponsor exemptions into the Tour’s biggest events while struggling players are left out.
He was with James Hahn when the latter received a call from Golfweek about the Tour’s newest Signature stop , the Miami Championship, a $20 million event slated fo