A recent major announcement from the PGA TOUR gives us some clues into a new direction the Tour may be taking in order to save its future.
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Hopefully the players are mic'd up so we can hear some commentary from them
I think this is a good and interesting idea. I absolutely love golf, but the proportion of advertisements versus play, and the coverage of different players, is what keeps me away. There has to be a new model, and Europe seems to do it better.
Too complicated. Its simple. The investment into the actual TV broadcast time and style is unacceptable as it is currently. I dont want to watch 8 people all day. I dont want to watch 3 par 3s all day. Let me change this statement. I WILL NOT
Sounds good, but if covered like a PGA event, it won’t go well.
The personalities are all at LIV events. The PGA tour is not in good spot going forward.
Everyone forgets about Brad Dalke and Luke Kwon. I believe both of those guys could make a cut
Here’s my problem with watching a PGA tour event: you are watching a series of commercials with an occasional golf shot thrown in. Even in some of the majors. LIV is just the opposite: lots of golf but few commercial interruptions. At least that’s my impression.
The problem with the PGA Tour now is that all the players are automatons. “Sports Psychologists” have taken all emotion out of the game. I have been watching Bryson’s channel for a while now but he really took off when he let his emotions show during the PGA Championship. And I really think that is why he moved the needle so much for that final rounds of the PGA and US Open.
The Creator Classic might be an opportunity for the PGA Tour to invite Bryson DeChambeau to participate, and in so doing, start building a bridge to LIV. I don't think he should be a player, but he would be an amazing on-course interviewer!
I don’t have cable nor do I pay for subscriptions, so I just watch the highlights of tournaments on YouTube.
I got tired of tiger being in all the featured groups at majors. Respect to the goat but come on leave those spots for guys in competition
NBC said they would show more golf, less commercials. What they actually did was air MORE commercials and show less golf. Plenty of scenery, folks out in the water, flashbacks, etc. And "Playing Through" doesn't count as showing golf. Sorry. I recorded the Open, mainly because of the time it was aired. But I record every Tour event so that I can skip the commercials, so I know the normal length of commercial breaks. NBC normally has a 2.5 minutes commercial break on the usual PGA Tour event. For the Open the commercial breaks were an average of 3 minutes. So NBC has no problem lying to viewers and doing whatever they like because they believe they have a captive audience. Add to that the broadcast anchors are the worst of all the announcers of the telecast. And you wonder why viewership is down? Because coverage is a joke. People are waking up to the fact that the viewers are not NBC's customers, the commercial sponsors are.
Sorry, but I don’t watch a telecast because of DeChambeau. One comment said all the personalities are at LIV. Garcia, Reed, Hatton, Koepka and a few others. A bunch of whiny complainers.
Grant needs to work a high paying deal, without him it wont be successful.
PGA tour is mostly dead … LIV is kicking ass and will change the face of golf forever worldwide .
It’s not down as far as you’re saying it there are different areas that people get to watch golf on that are not counted do your homework
As Padraig Harrington predicted…. Bryson is BOX OFFICE ….you can’t argue with that.