The apprentice is a bit of an outlier. Sport is still the enourmous driver of live television. Football, rugby, tennis, F1, NFL, NBA are still capturing major viewing shares and the biigest set the records for viewership. Golf obviously smaller in global appeal rhan many of those, but within that, TV is still the main medium for the sport itself. A 10 second tictoc of McIroy and a fan is quite a different thing, but in isolation is meaningless. Its only by following the golf itself that snippets have relevance. Netflix and the likes of Full Swing or Drive to Survive. They are intermittant behind the scenes or addenda to the real thing.
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Ok I’m in danger of taking this too OT cos I have an interest in it but you’re saying that choosing to buy the picture delivered to you via the internet is non-conventional (trendy/innovative) despite sitting on the same sofa watching the same picture on the same tv screen. While that picture if its delivered to you via transmitter, cable or satellite sitting on the same sofa watching the same TV screen is deemed conventional (boring/outdated)
Not sure I see much difference simply due to the delivery method. An Uber is still a taxi isn’t it?
(Oh and just 'urgh' to taking your phone to the bog with you
If there was any doubt, we have a winner. LIV's greatest fan
How do you even know that??And where is the biggest viewing of Netflix in the uk ?
Via the sky box
When it comes to live sport streaming has struggled - Amazon Prime within the UK has already lost the Prem rights it had
That’s impressive dedication
How do you even know that??
I’d say it’s more impressive dedication the amount of time you spend googling things just for the sake of debate
Eh?
The are an American tour, and no one has come close to touching them since the Euro tour during peak Seve/Langer/Faldo/Olazabal. They have always attracted the biggest sponsors, and the best golfers. Tiger gave them a turbo boost, sure. But they dont oblige the rest of the worlds players to play it. The rest of the world can do anything it wants. The PGAT is fully entitled, not self entitled, to run a US centred tour. It has no global responsibility. If anything, its the Euro, and other tours marginal regions like Aus, SA, Japan, who could have coordinated themselves to be the single rival as an everywhere-but-USA. But they never have. Even LIV keeps it US focused. PGAT is a super success, and with no complacency, unless you expect it to be doing something it never claims to to do.
If it is so great, why do they stop their Player's playing in other non PGAT events ?
They dont. Any player is free to leave the PGAT. They dont have LIV style contracts.
Any PGAT player who wants to play in another non PGAT event needs to get a release.....
