By: Golf Channel | Duration: 00:10:16
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Rex Hoggard and Ryan Lavner discuss the consequences of professional golf becoming a mainstream sport in the United States and beyond, comparing the crowd behavior at the 45th Ryder Cup to a viral video of Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield getting into it with Seahawks fans at Lumen Field in Seattle. #GolfChannel #Golf #RyderCup
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Is golf really ready to become a mainstream sport? The answer is complicated | Golf Channel Podcast
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If golfers aren’t ready to be booed and jeered then golf isn’t ready to be mainstream. Part of being a fan is trying to influence the outcome. Golf is stuck in the 50s. You guys should go to a Yankees-Mets or Islanders-Rangers game and see how tame the Ryder Cup was.
Once you get away from the country club crowd people don’t like Rory, he represents the worst of elitist golf. He heard that. Don’t cheat on your wife and not expect to hear about it.
The PGA of America is NOT the PGA Tour, or the DP World Tour. It's a professional association of the great people who teach golf lessons, at courses all across the U.S. It is NOT an entertainment events management company. Would you put a professional association — of engineers, dentists, or farmers — in charge of running Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, or the Masters? That's what this is, and it's been made clear by the odd comments the PGA President has made since the Ryder Cup ended. It's not the PGA's fault that they're not an entertainment events organization; the problem is the PGA's failure to acknowledge that fact…and to hire pros to do the job.
You guys in the golf media should bare much of the blame for the fiasco at Bethpage. You fueled it for two years and it became a self-fulfilling prophecy.