need_my_wedge
Has Now Found His Wedgie
Watch some golf over the weekends, PGA and LPGA along with DPWorld. Now my season has finished and am feet up until April, will probably watch a bit more through the winter just to see sunnier and warmer scenes
Tour Golf - are you bothered anymore
- Thread starter Arthur Wedge
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fenwayrich
Assistant Pro
I've followed the PGA Tour since the early 1970's, and watched it on Sky since 1992. I enjoy it the same as I've always done. I used to attend European Tour events in England, but I don't watch much DP Tour because it's usually on in the daytime or even overnight. Always look at the results though.
LincolnShep
Head Pro
I'll watch the Open, the Masters, and the Ryder Cup. I watch many more hours of YouTube golf than I do of tour golf.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Yeah, this. I have a 'Watch Later' list piled up with content to watch at the moment.
sjw
Well-known member
I watch when Rory's playing, if I'm able to
Like others, YouTube is my main source of golf content
Like others, YouTube is my main source of golf content
AhmadHoover
New member
I just watch the highlights, thats it.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
No. I don’t feel any individual emotional investment in any tour player that would find me watching tour comps. In a major I have emotional investment in GB&NI players but my investment is national rather than individual.
AussieKB
Well-known member
According to the TV ratings a lot of people are not interested anymore.
Bdill93
Undisputed King of FOMO
Voted yes - Primarily because when I'm home alone and there's not a lot to do - Sky always has the golf on, so I tune in 
Watched so much golf over the last 4 or so years and the shots that pro's play still absolutely blow my mind at times.
Does anyone else still think about that Rory chip from the Ryder Cup last year or is it just me?
Watched so much golf over the last 4 or so years and the shots that pro's play still absolutely blow my mind at times.
Does anyone else still think about that Rory chip from the Ryder Cup last year or is it just me?
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Departing R&A chief Martin Slumbers 'proud of Open' but urges men's pro golf to 'sort itself out'
Martin Slumbers is proud of his achievements at the R&A but says stability is needed for the game to push on, writes Iain Carter.
www.bbc.co.uk
The Open & the Masters gets a good watch, the US Open & US PGA less so. I rarely watch the US PGA tour but tend to watch the Fed Ex in the last couple of weeks of the season. The end of season DP desert swing gets a watch.
Mrs H, a non-golfer, watches far more than me hence it’s usually on in the background on a Sunday.
Mrs H, a non-golfer, watches far more than me hence it’s usually on in the background on a Sunday.
Dunesman
Active member
I probably watch as much as I always did, although the balance has shifted away from the European Tour. Probably just the Scottish and Wentworth now, as it just doesnt have enough of the bigger names as when Monty or Faldo or Harrington, etc used to be there, let alone Seve, Langer, Olazabal before.
Now its mainly PGAT. They should vary the courses they go to more as some of them are boring and repetitive. The field are certainly good, and the loss of some players to LIV hasnt harmed it. Not sure the signature events adds much really. Its not as if all the top players played all events in the past anyway. Apart from the TPC or Memorial, 3/4 of the top players in the field was typical as they all took different weeks off. Its why the absent ones on LIV like Dechambeau arent really missed at a given tournament. They arent majors, so no need to try to make them like majors by insisting they all play. If anything they risk playing into LIVs hands by making the handful of LIV good players conspicuous by their absence. When there was only 24 of the top 30 playing, it was normal. Now when you have 28 and the missing two are LIVs, it highlights that it isnt the fully top field they are trying to portray.
I watch some LPGA regular events too, but depends who is contending, and have had to recognise some racism in myself as the reality is my interest wanes when it is a cluster of Asian players being shown and they can be a little bit indistinguishable.
I watched some of LIV last year but none this year. The weak fields had the same problem as the ET, the commentary was too manic, and was too much like a hard sell infomercial for the teams element which I couldnt see the point of.
All four majors, Ryder Cup, and Solheim Cup, from beginning to end, but not sure if they or part of the question or not.
Now its mainly PGAT. They should vary the courses they go to more as some of them are boring and repetitive. The field are certainly good, and the loss of some players to LIV hasnt harmed it. Not sure the signature events adds much really. Its not as if all the top players played all events in the past anyway. Apart from the TPC or Memorial, 3/4 of the top players in the field was typical as they all took different weeks off. Its why the absent ones on LIV like Dechambeau arent really missed at a given tournament. They arent majors, so no need to try to make them like majors by insisting they all play. If anything they risk playing into LIVs hands by making the handful of LIV good players conspicuous by their absence. When there was only 24 of the top 30 playing, it was normal. Now when you have 28 and the missing two are LIVs, it highlights that it isnt the fully top field they are trying to portray.
I watch some LPGA regular events too, but depends who is contending, and have had to recognise some racism in myself as the reality is my interest wanes when it is a cluster of Asian players being shown and they can be a little bit indistinguishable.
I watched some of LIV last year but none this year. The weak fields had the same problem as the ET, the commentary was too manic, and was too much like a hard sell infomercial for the teams element which I couldnt see the point of.
All four majors, Ryder Cup, and Solheim Cup, from beginning to end, but not sure if they or part of the question or not.
sunshine
Well-known member
Golfnut1957
Newbie
The comments from Joe Public at the end of the article are quite interesting, they are battering him.Departing R&A chief Martin Slumbers 'proud of Open' but urges men's pro golf to 'sort itself out'
Martin Slumbers is proud of his achievements at the R&A but says stability is needed for the game to push on, writes Iain Carter.www.bbc.co.uk
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
Same old The Open issues
Ticket ballot
And tv rights to behind a paywall
Second one did nothing but help increase the prize money
Not sure how else you could do tickets
sjw
Well-known member
Only every time I'm greensideVoted yes - Primarily because when I'm home alone and there's not a lot to do - Sky always has the golf on, so I tune in
Watched so much golf over the last 4 or so years and the shots that pro's play still absolutely blow my mind at times.
Does anyone else still think about that Rory chip from the Ryder Cup last year or is it just me?
evemccc
Well-known member
I don’t get what’s wrong with how it used to be…first come first served
Those who make money from the Open being the ‘biggest and best’ and the changes that Slumbers speaks of, have done well, those who pay for tickets and who want to attend, the core audience of golf-lovers & golfers, have not benefited from those changes that Slumbers is so proud of…
Prize money has gone up….
Even more emphasis on the drunken corporate sponsors…
Slumbers IMO hasn’t been good
Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
I don’t get what’s wrong with how it used to be…first come first served
Those who make money from the Open being the ‘biggest and best’ and the changes that Slumbers speaks of, have done well, those who pay for tickets and who want to attend, the core audience of golf-lovers & golfers, have not benefited from those changes that Slumbers is so proud of…
Prize money has gone up….
Even more emphasis on the drunken corporate sponsors…
Slumbers IMO hasn’t been good
Welcome to modern sport where the corporate sponsers bring in the huge money to help pay those big prize funds or events get left behind
As for the tickets - first come first served may well come down to fastest finger etc and may well end up being the same people getting the tickets each year
A ballot then everyone gets the same chance , same with the ballots for many sports events
Why would golf be any different
Slumbers hasn’t done anything that anyone else would have done
4LEX
Well-known member
I used to watch a lot of golf, mostly PGA on Thursday and Sunday evenings. Occasionally European Tour when it was in the Middle East and started early.
Throw in all of the Majors. Now I don't really watch anything bar majors and odd big event.
Throw in all of the Majors. Now I don't really watch anything bar majors and odd big event.
evemccc
Well-known member
Seriously??!
The ballot only came in for the 150th, at St Andrew’s, in 2022…
2015, when Slumbers took the reigns (and the article talks of a huge contrast between then and now) wasn’t a primitive era….really not that far removed in many areas from today
Most importantly, what on earth do you mean by “events get left behind”??? Who in their right mind cares how many millions Rory or the other pros make?
Do you think the Open would lose gravitas if it hadn’t had the huge inflation of prize money since 2015??
Would golf fans not watch the Open if the prize money today had increased only the same as inflation since 2015?
I do not understand your logic and reasoning at all
The changes Slumbers is responsible for, with regard to the men’s Open, haven’t improved golf for the average fan….only those corporate ‘fans’ and those who make millions from the game already IMO
