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I guess I need to remind everyone of my pro golf gripes again:
▶️ I watched the Tour for almost 30 years. Post Tiger/Phil it was boring/stale.
▶️ Courses on Tour are mostly unappealing - too milquetoast. TPC ain’t it in modern golf.
▶️ Broadcasts were degrading: too many commercials, over-corporatized, broadcast talent drain. It wasn’t engaging anymore.
▶️ That over-corporatization kills individualism & personalities.
▶️ All that combined with 40+ events in all the same format on similar courses with very few courses I wanted to watch, with a lot of uninteresting players just nuked my interest & I wanted something new. Different style courses in other parts of the 🌎 interests me. Better broadcasts that show more golf & more of my favorite players interests me. PGL piqued my interest - LIV was able to pull it off. Combination.
Add on to that all the @PGATour skullduggery I’ve uncovered the last 4 years, and the corrupt golf media that protects the establishment and I’m out on it - doesn’t matter what happens with LIV.
If the Tour can thrive & grow as-is, with no changes - more power to them. But IDT it will grow & bring in younger fans & veteran fans turned off to the current product without MAJOR changes. They’re like a 2/10 in what they need to do.
Faking the linear TV ratings, propaganda & bad narratives only goes so far and bringing all the LIV players back won’t fix all my issues either.
Those are the cliffs notes but I talk about this on @GLUgolfclub all the time. I’ve said this so many times it really does bore me.🥱
Charities are fine, but the only charity that has added to my personal entertainment is #TheHumanFund. 😂
(Don’t get me started on the fake charities).
Bookmark this, save it bc I’m not doing it again.
▶️ I watched the Tour for almost 30 years. Post Tiger/Phil it was boring/stale.
▶️ Courses on Tour are mostly unappealing - too milquetoast. TPC ain’t it in modern golf.
▶️ Broadcasts were degrading: too many commercials, over-corporatized, broadcast talent drain. It wasn’t engaging anymore.
▶️ That over-corporatization kills individualism & personalities.
▶️ All that combined with 40+ events in all the same format on similar courses with very few courses I wanted to watch, with a lot of uninteresting players just nuked my interest & I wanted something new. Different style courses in other parts of the 🌎 interests me. Better broadcasts that show more golf & more of my favorite players interests me. PGL piqued my interest - LIV was able to pull it off. Combination.
Add on to that all the @PGATour skullduggery I’ve uncovered the last 4 years, and the corrupt golf media that protects the establishment and I’m out on it - doesn’t matter what happens with LIV.
If the Tour can thrive & grow as-is, with no changes - more power to them. But IDT it will grow & bring in younger fans & veteran fans turned off to the current product without MAJOR changes. They’re like a 2/10 in what they need to do.
Faking the linear TV ratings, propaganda & bad narratives only goes so far and bringing all the LIV players back won’t fix all my issues either.
Those are the cliffs notes but I talk about this on @GLUgolfclub all the time. I’ve said this so many times it really does bore me.🥱
Charities are fine, but the only charity that has added to my personal entertainment is #TheHumanFund. 😂
(Don’t get me started on the fake charities).
Bookmark this, save it bc I’m not doing it again.
what exactly was so terrible about the existing golf “establishment” pre-LIV?View quoted post on X
purses were great. the Tour gave billions to local charities. rarely if ever embroiled in controversy.
LIV simply tried to buy its way into pro golf by outspending the competition. it failed because the Saudis don’t understand the American sports consumer. furthermore, that model was never the long play. it was designed as a temporary bridge over the moat while they infiltrated the castle.
could you for once just honest about what it really was..?
