Post by mj3528 on Jun 7, 2023 8:57:35 GMT -5
Pretty good takedown of the PGA commissioner by Kevin Clark
The one thing I won’t accept is the PGA’s mention that the merger will “grow the game.” There is no evidence of that whatsoever. Ratings for LIV on the CW were hard to find, but the numbers that did leak out—the Washington, D.C., tournament saw a cool 3,400 in-market viewers for Saturday coverage—were slim. LIV Golf’s “innovations”—shotgun starts and a team golf concept—felt forced just to have some differentiation from the PGA. The lack of buzz was always the biggest indication it wasn’t working. I am a golf fanatic and generally a sports fanatic and have not once heard anyone earnestly discuss the team golf concept. The only time I ever heard much discussion about it was when Bubba Watson, with a straight face, named LIV teams in the same answer as the Yankees, Chiefs, and Cowboys. “My 10-year-old son was sitting in the bed with me,” Watson said in January, “and we were watching golf on the TV, and he knew the Aces—everybody knows the Aces; they keep winning. He knew the Aces. He knew the Stingers.” No one, I’m sorry to say, knows the Aces or the Stingers. No one knows that the Aces keep winning.