Professional Golf 2024

[Orikoru]

Oh aye...

There's plenty of that...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1836709549060788351

Wouldn't be an option for me, giving that I use an Odyssey #7. God knows what direction it would go off the back of that! Maybe a one-hander backwards wedge, or a flipped over hybrid.

 

[BrianM]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1836770736725242274

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Out in 29 back in 39.
Grant Forrest showing just how fickle golf is.

I was once out in 39 into a links gale.
Playing great, I was licking my lips for the downwind second half.
41

 

[pokerjoke]

Hennie Zuel
What is she wearing

 

[Mel Smooth]

Good to see.

 

[Pin-seeker]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1836720049102475444

Not a great ad for TM

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Good to see.
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So basically nothing has changed

 

[Mel Smooth]

So basically nothing has changed

Do you ever wonder if you made bad choice predicting the rapid demise of LIV, Phil?

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Do you ever wonder if you made bad choice predicting the rapid demise of LIV, Phil?

strange response

Tour golf is a mess right now -

Completely split apart , viewing figures dropping all over the place and all down to greed from an unsustainable tour

Plenty of time for it all to implode in on itself

But most golf fans now have given up caring outside the majors - events pass by and most don’t really care

 

[3 jabber]

Do you ever wonder if you made bad choice predicting the rapid demise of LIV, Phil?

I think you are right, LIV isn't going to go away. Still bloody awful though.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

I think you are right, LIV isn't going to go away. Still bloody awful though.

It will go at some point

 

[Hobbit]

It will go at some point

Will it though? Outside of a few tournaments, tour event crowds appear to be tailing off. But I’m not sure that really matters whilst Sky is showing sponsor’s banners in their coverage.

LIV events attract a younger demographic. When sponsor’s look to where their future customers will come from, will they shift their sponsorship to LIV?

I genuinely don’t know but I wouldn’t rush to write LIV off.

 

[Mel Smooth]

I think you are right, LIV isn't going to go away. Still bloody awful though.

I find a lot of PGAT events completely unwatchable - but I'm a golfer and fan of the game, as you are right?

Nothing wrong with having an alternative format that appeals to different people, infact, that's healthy for golf - tour golf doesn't represent the game we all play at amateur level in many aspects at all - it has it's place but it's not a good advert for people considering giving the game a try.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Will it though? Outside of a few tournaments, tour event crowds appear to be tailing off. But I’m not sure that really matters whilst Sky is showing sponsor’s banners in their coverage.

LIV events attract a younger demographic. When sponsor’s look to where their future customers will come from, will they shift their sponsorship to LIV?

I genuinely don’t know but I wouldn’t rush to write LIV off.

Golf isn’t big enough or has a big enough audience to have two tours in the current format

The biggest market will always be the US - that’s the big corporate sponsers

Viewing figures are dropping significantly and they aren’t being picked up by LIV in any significant numbers

It’s running at huge losses that no corporate would pick up when it has small eyes on it


it’s why they want to have some sort of “merger” because they know its not good for the sport.

LIV in it’s current format will go imo - there maybe some form of team events financially backed by PIF imo

Sports don’t do well when there are splits - history tells us that

The good news is it has zero bearing on the grass roots game