BLAINE, MN - JULY 10: Gary McCord tees off the 1st hole during the first round of the 3M Championship held at the TPC Twin Cities on July 10, 2009 in Blaine, Minnesota. (Photo by Marc Feldman/Getty ...

Last month, Gary McCord was packing up a few odds and ends at his summer home in Colorado when he stumbled across an old, leather-bound briefcase and sat down to rummaged through it. What he ...

More than 40 years after spearheading what became the all-exempt tour that has become the model for all of professional golf, Gary McCord has brainstormed a new business model for the PGA Tour. “Forty ...