Walk-up Music: It's Not Just A Way To Play...It's A Way To Be...Lame

My phone was ringing off the hook with non-golfers totally engaged by this weekend's walk up music, so I saw little of the Zurich Classic.

Actually that's not true. The only people who saw wealthy golfers take practice swings to music were in person or watching on Golf Channel. And they all really like golf already. 

Nonetheless, the poorly executed "walk up" music that played between first tee announcement and tee shot was "awkward" at best, as Ryan Lavner noted, or a symptom of something far more peculiar. I'll take the latter and call it good old-fashioned desperation coupled with poor execution. 

But the Commissioner Jay Monahan, on hand to witness this historic moment at least tells us who thought of something he claims brought in new fans: Daniel Berger.

From Ryan Lavner's report at the Zurich:

“I think we need walk-up music on the PGA Tour,” he said. “Every other sport does it, and it creates a really good energy. I’d like to see that happen one day.”

Less than three years later, the Zurich Classic became the first Tour event to use walk-up music on the first tee – even if Berger wasn’t around to experience it, after missing the 36-hole cut here with Gary Woodland.

“That was the authorship right then and there,” Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said Sunday at TPC Louisiana. “It made sense when he said it, and it’s proven to be right.”

Mercifully, the tour social accounts posted only one walk-up moment from Sunday's play. Now that's living under par.