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For those of you who watched any or all of last's night TGL show, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
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For those of you who watched any or all of last's night TGL show, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Like I tell my brother, Alan, the only thing more boring than golfing is watching others golf.
But I stand corrected . . . now there's indoor, simulated golf to catch on TV.
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For those of you who watched any or all of last's night TGL show, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Like I tell my brother, Alan, the only thing more boring than golfing is watching others golf.
But I stand corrected . . . now there's indoor, simulated golf to catch on TV.
I stand in complete agreement on that. Watching golf is as exciting as watching grass grow. In fact, as long as some golfers take to size up a putt, you can probably actually see the grass grow if you look close enough. My wife and I were once given free tickets to see the Memorial Tournament at the Muirfield Village Golf Club. There were some big names there. We walked up the first green and saw these household names putting. We watched the "action" at that hole. Looked at each other said, what are we doing here, and walked back to our car and left. It took us years to tell the close friend who had given us the tickets what we did. He was, at the time, the PR director of Children's Hospital, which is both a recipient of some of the proceeds and sponsor of the event (not exactly sure how that works), and he had gotten the tickets for free, so he hadn't had to pay out of his own pocket.
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For those of you who watched any or all of last's night TGL show, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Like I tell my brother, Alan, the only thing more boring than golfing is watching others golf.
But I stand corrected . . . now there's indoor, simulated golf to catch on TV.
I stand in complete agreement on that. Watching golf is as exciting as watching grass grow. In fact, as long as some golfers take to size up a putt, you can probably actually see the grass grow if you look close enough. My wife and I were once given free tickets to see the Memorial Tournament at the Muirfield Village Golf Club. There were some big names there. We walked up the first green and saw these household names putting. We watched the "action" at that hole. Looked at each other said, what are we doing here, and walked back to our car and left. It took us years to tell the close friend who had given us the tickets what we did. He was, at the time, the PR director of Children's Hospital, which is both a recipient of some of the proceeds and sponsor of the event (not exactly sure how that works), and he had gotten the tickets for free, so he hadn't had to pay out of his own pocket.
Shocking that two people who don't play golf don't enjoy watching golf. Really solid effort fellas.
Al, 3.2M unique viewers tuned in from what I read. No Tiger or Rory playing, and it still did good numbers in Week 1. I originally thought that not having the two bigges names start Week 1 was a mistake but now I've reconsidered. Tiger is still the needle in golf. No one draws attention even remotely close so a lot of people will watch when he's playing and I bet Week 2 will do more than Week 1. That's a chance to draw these people in to regular viewers. Week 1 debut, Week 2 Tiger debut, Week 3 Tiger vs. Rory. Are some people hooked at that point? Maybe.
My take in general...the tech is very impressive. The pace is much more appealing to watch with the shot clock. I would have liked to see more of the stats on the screen. The format I'm not sure about yet but it seems OK. I think this is a good chance to get to know these guys better and let their personalities show. Not all are cut out for that but maybe some lesser known guys have a path to winning over some new fans. I was surprised with Xander being pretty vocal and joking around a lot. Never been much of a fan of his, but maybe I've misjudged.
Like LIV, I highly doubt the team matters to anyone.
This is light years better than any recent versions of "The Match".
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For those of you who watched any or all of last's night TGL show, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
Like I tell my brother, Alan, the only thing more boring than golfing is watching others golf.
But I stand corrected . . . now there's indoor, simulated golf to catch on TV.
I stand in complete agreement on that. Watching golf is as exciting as watching grass grow. In fact, as long as some golfers take to size up a putt, you can probably actually see the grass grow if you look close enough. My wife and I were once given free tickets to see the Memorial Tournament at the Muirfield Village Golf Club. There were some big names there. We walked up the first green and saw these household names putting. We watched the "action" at that hole. Looked at each other said, what are we doing here, and walked back to our car and left. It took us years to tell the close friend who had given us the tickets what we did. He was, at the time, the PR director of Children's Hospital, which is both a recipient of some of the proceeds and sponsor of the event (not exactly sure how that works), and he had gotten the tickets for free, so he hadn't had to pay out of his own pocket.
Shocking that two people who don't play golf don't enjoy watching golf. Really solid effort fellas.
Al, 3.2M unique viewers tuned in from what I read. No Tiger or Rory playing, and it still did good numbers in Week 1. I originally thought that not having the two bigges names start Week 1 was a mistake but now I've reconsidered. Tiger is still the needle in golf. No one draws attention even remotely close so a lot of people will watch when he's playing and I bet Week 2 will do more than Week 1. That's a chance to draw these people in to regular viewers. Week 1 debut, Week 2 Tiger debut, Week 3 Tiger vs. Rory. Are some people hooked at that point? Maybe.
My take in general...the tech is very impressive. The pace is much more appealing to watch with the shot clock. I would have liked to see more of the stats on the screen. The format I'm not sure about yet but it seems OK. I think this is a good chance to get to know these guys better and let their personalities show. Not all are cut out for that but maybe some lesser known guys have a path to winning over some new fans. I was surprised with Xander being pretty vocal and joking around a lot. Never been much of a fan of his, but maybe I've misjudged.
Like LIV, I highly doubt the team matters to anyone.
This is light years better than any recent versions of "The Match".
I'll take Shell's Wonderful World of Golf televised matches, starting in the 60's over this any day of the week.
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As somebody who setup a golf simulator in his garage, it was cool to see the technology being used. I will say I'm disappointed there are no mis-reads on good swings when the terrible shanks get picked up all the time...but they got plenty of very expensive backup launch monitors to solve for that, vs. my cheap Rapsodo :)
I don't see this lasting long, especially since PGA is starting up in nice warm weather locations anyways. To make it last, I agree with Long Driver, this needs to be more personable than a normal PGA event to get to know the players better. Similar to how people view golfers who have become active in YouTube content creation.
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Thanks for the comments fellows. I was only got to watch the first 9 holes (alternate shot). It's a shame the match got out of hand so quickly. Would have been nice to see it go down to the wire where the gimme range didn't get quite so crazy.
I think this will end up being a short term novelty event. Looking at the broadcast times going forward, 7 EST time may prove problematic. A couple of things I'd like to see are more onscreen stats and a split screen of the putts - one from above (they did that once) and one at ground level. Several times you had no idea what the actual putt looked like ore where the hole was. I could do without the guy in the crazy blue coat announcing. What is his claim to fame anyway.
I do have a fear that if this does get big, that some of the wild fan behavior which was ok for this event, may spill over into tour events. Even as loose as these guys were the other night, things will tighten up quite a bit on tour.
I'll watch again next week to see Tiger and then Tiger and Rory in a few weeks but I don't see tuning into this every week.
One other thought. It would be very interesting if the teams also had a true amateur player chosen at random from entires from around the country or through a competition at Golf Galaxy. Now that might generate some additional interest.
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As a mediocre golfer who enjoys a good simulator session, I enjoyed watching it and appreciate the tech. However, I think the presentation is just too gimmicky to appeal to whomever televised golf attracts. LIV fails to draw viewers to see, arguably, the world’s best fields play real golf and the complaints I hear have more to do with loud music, shorts and distracting graphics than any aspect of golf or talent. Given all that, I foresee a large SoFi asset in West Palm being available for birthday parties soon.
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You seen what tickets were going for?
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Golf courses are pretty bad for the environment, so I'm all for the Technodrome.
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