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Following on from the "BBC losing the Open" and "Rory not winning Sports Personality of the Year" threads - did anyone see tonight's episode of the quiz show "Pointless" ? Contestants were asked to name the most obscure golfer they could from the top 100 in the world rankings as of January 2014.
Apparently 70 of the 100 answers were "pointless" - ie none of the 100 people surveyed could name them, including many of the recent major winners. One of the contestants, a young woman, named the only golfer she had ever heard of - Tiger Woods. Lee Westwood, one of the best British golfers of the last decade or more, and former world number one, was known to only 14 of the 100 people.
It just goes to emphasize that Golf is becoming very much a minor sport in the eyes of the British public, and this is likely to get worse once the BBC stop showing it completely.
Mind you, the winner of tonight's jackpot also thought Hamlet was a play written by William Tell, so maybe they were just thick!
Apparently 70 of the 100 answers were "pointless" - ie none of the 100 people surveyed could name them, including many of the recent major winners. One of the contestants, a young woman, named the only golfer she had ever heard of - Tiger Woods. Lee Westwood, one of the best British golfers of the last decade or more, and former world number one, was known to only 14 of the 100 people.
It just goes to emphasize that Golf is becoming very much a minor sport in the eyes of the British public, and this is likely to get worse once the BBC stop showing it completely.
Mind you, the winner of tonight's jackpot also thought Hamlet was a play written by William Tell, so maybe they were just thick!