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Ahead of his season debut at Pebble Beach, Rory McIlroy discusses the balance between being a competitor and an entertainer, while the Golf Today crew unpacks golf’s competing interests. #GolfChannel #PGATour
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PGA Tour at ‘crossroads’ in changing landscape | Golf Today | Golf Channel
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WWE GOLF! KARDASHIANS DO THE PUTTING! SAND TRAP WRESTLING! JELLO SHOTS BEFORE TEE SHOTS!
Golf for the television viewer is broken. When its only worth watching 4-6 weekends per year that's not good. TGL is still too new and awkward and no one cares about LIV. Maybe Fox will change that but for now no one cares about LIV…at least not me….
Competetive golf is boring at times cause the pros make it look easy. I play once a week so i have an appreciation for just how good these elite players are and how easy they can make the game look. If everyone tried golf they would have more appreciation for the game, so if youre in this comment section reading this and never played before, go buy a set or rent one, and go play 9 or 18 with a friend or two, or three.
The PGA Tour needs to CULTIVATE an elitist image. "This is where legends are made" needs to be the attitude and the marketing. @PGATour
Translation: YouTube golf is so wack.
Nobody cares about Rory’s opinion… tell him to hit the ball and keep his mouth closed
Everyone has their choice…for me TGL is a yawn fest
The reality is that the days of having 45-47 tournaments a year is over. We should have a 30 tournament season with a TGL as an off season thing in Nove and December. And 120 players per tournament.
The PGA Tour did it to themselves. They need new leadership.
Real golfers play real tournament? Talk about being full of yourself! Real golf is paying a greens fee!
PGA has become a joke. Tournaments don’t even have all the top players due to the split with LIV. Now we have this snooze fest indoor golf that is the dumbest thing going on. Need a new commissioner to come in and clean up this mess. Rory and Tiger need to stick what they are good at which is golf and not the decision making. It’s getting old and tired.
Maybe shove more of the same five commercials down my throat per hour. Give me more golf, better camera angles, more variety of players getting coverage, less play through with whatever Callaway's stupidly named driver is for this year.
Get a better face for golf . Rory is honestly just boring
Hey Rory. It's not golf that's not entertaining. It's YOU and the rest of the PGA Tour primadonna's.
BULLSHIT. Daylight is not the problem. Nor is field size. It's just as slow in limited field events. It's also just as slow in June. What clown show commentator.
Coming from the avg golf consumer i think I speak for most youtube golf put a little more heartbeat in pga we all tune in to watch the best in the world for 4 days out the week to compete but also fun to watch guys we relate to also if u ask me liv has ruined the pga not the tube golfers
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz PGA and LIV have got to come together to bring back golf. Golf Channel, you can't talk folks into caring about the current situation no matter how much you try.
Every single other sport waits too long to make changes. Golf is at an inflection point right now. If I remember correctly, actual playing of the game is up pretty dramatically, especially since Covid. So there is a big opportunity to cash in on that momentum and enthusiasm for the game. But on the media side it has been stagnant for quite some time. I think it comes down to a few things to address.
1) Stakes is the first one. Winning a PGA tour event during a regular week, like American Express, Farmers or AT&T this week, its pretty much a low stakes event now. The stakes are the cut (boring no one ever cares) and Fed-Ex points (its too long of a build up). Boring. It needs a secret spice that elevates the stakes, which increases the drama. Especially the case when its paired with the second problem.
2) Second problem is player interaction. Youtube is fun because we know these guys. How do we know them so well, because you play 18 holes WITH THEM. They talk to you, interact, you play along with them. PGA coverage is completely disconnected from that. I don't see how you're going to interject player interaction into the tournament rounds (this whole walking interview thing is a joke). So best way is to foster this relationship OUTSIDE of the tournament rounds. This leads to problem 3
3) Problem 3 is media coverage / accessibility. For starters, Youtube golf is there on demand. It can be 2 videos of 9 holes each, or an 18 hole video. At most, you're looking at 1 hour of your time, which you can pause and come back to. PGA coverage is 5-6 hours. Couple that with problem 2 of not knowing or buying into individual players, and it becomes disconnected and boring. Additionally, we get ZERO coverage of these guys outside the confines of them hitting a shot on your screen and a commentator telling you what's happening. Some of the big brands have started to engage more with player content. But the PGA tour has ABSOLUTELY ZERO presence during the non-tournament days of the week. Want the triple whammy solution to these, just as an example? Televise and cover the Monday qualifiers like a Youtube video. Built in stakes, get to know the players especially the one that wins, and offer up close media coverage of the whole thing. Release it Wednesday before tournament. Its an underdog story, everyone likes that, its got all of it.
There's probably a few more things of course. But point being is there's a short list of these ingredients to make golf exciting. Youtube is low stakes (hit and giggle) but you know the players so well that they are the entertainment during the round as much as the golf is. PGA golf has zero of these ingredients. They can be combined in a different formula than Youtube golf can do to have success. But you can't have 0 or 1 of these and be entertaining.