BBC Pro-Celebrity Golf

Boabski said:
was there not a programme a few years ago on a channel hosted by Ant and Dec at Celtic Manor,
i remember a ryder cup format with Chris evans, Meat Loaf, Alice Cooper,Sam L Jackson, jodie kidd and catherine zeta jones and a few more, i may be wrong
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Yeah I remember that, obviously didn't go down too well.

Seem to remember a NTP in the dark settling it.
 
Beezerk said:
Ben Stokes is a cracking player, he was behind us last summer (our course is across from Durham Cricket Club) and made the course look easy.
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Would have got plenty of time to practice in the last few weeks seeing as England erroneously decided not to take him to the World Cup!
 
These days it might work better with a fixed celebrity (an Ant or Dec, I can't tell the difference, Chris Evans, High Grant, etc) and changing pros. Few pros want to give up the week or two needed to film all the shows back to back. Back in those days, the pros often had gaps in the schedules, but not now unless you look for a late career player in semi-retirement or on a slow down before Champions/Senior Tour.

A few years back, I was at the BMW on pro-am day, standing at the 4th tee, and saw a large crowd coming up the 3rd. Checked the playing order and thought, OK, they must be watching Vijay, who was still pretty big then. No, they were watching Hugh Grant, and many were teenage girls. Vijay had enough people following him to make a phone box slightly uncomfortable but still usable.
 
Who needs pros? plenty of them hacking around on SS4. Plenty of half decent celeb (ability wise) and I would watch it.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
I'm guessing it was the suggestion that the play was faked ?

Took him a while to mention it though :D
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In the original pro-celebrity a lot of it was faked as time was always short (daylight) and some celebs weren't that good. Knew a BBC cameraman who filmed it every year. Sometimes they'd film a celeb pitching into a green and someone would chuck one onto the putting surface if they'd duffed, thinned or shanked yet another.
 
If you look at whats happened recently in darts it has suddenly gained a lot of interest from the TV events and celebs supporting it.

Something like this again for golf can only be a good thing for the game.

I remember following it when I was a kid before even being interested in playing and ensuring that different age groups are at least interested is a good place to start - if that takes celebs then I am in support of it even if I avoid the normal bunch of shows they are in like the plague.
 
HomerJSimpson said:
In the original pro-celebrity a lot of it was faked as time was always short (daylight) and some celebs weren't that good. Knew a BBC cameraman who filmed it every year. Sometimes they'd film a celeb pitching into a green and someone would chuck one onto the putting surface if they'd duffed, thinned or shanked yet another.
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I wish someone would follow me round during a Medal and do the same
 
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