After about 3 hours to complete the first nine holes in Torrey Pines, CBS Golf Reporter, about 3 hours of final pairing Dotti Pepper chasedWe provide some difficult, cold facts about the state of the game.
“We are starting to need new words to talk about the pace of play questions. It's respect,” Pepper said on the broadcast.
“Respect all your friends competitors, fans, broadcasts, all of them. You need to be better.”
Unlike LPGA, the round of the PGA tour has turned into a complete throw. In many cases, professionals takes nearly 6 hours to finish the round. This is the reality of keeping golf fans boring and keeping them away. I don't think the tour has been struggling to evaluate TV for more than a year.
It's not as if you can broadcast anything. In weekend rounds, producers and directors have little options for what to show as the day progresses because tea time is based on leader board positioning. That's why you can see many “rewards”. This is a TV term used to display the player who taps the final hall. Viewers can also see many scenic shots and long -term views of players.
The same is true this week. However, another problem raised an ugly head: lack of star power. Why do you want your run of the Mill Golf fans to tune with this week's Farmers' insurance because the leader board has no common names? Ludvigåberg, Hideki Matsuyama, and Jason Day are three stars that could make things interesting on Saturday, but no one fought.
Instead, four winners, Harris English, the third year of Professional Sam Stevens, the fourth year professional Andrew Novak -The latter two have not yet won the tour. From a birdie who has been jockey in search of a title on the Tory Pine's South Course, which produced many bogies. This is not enough for these three players. Everyone has a wonderful story. But in reality, they don't attract much interest from a larger sport world. Given the fact that YouTube Golf has become popular and played the game itself, tuning it into a 60 -minute Brymbeau video of a 60 -minute jam -packed action instead of seeing the final round of 6 hours. What is the hindrance? It is a dilemma facing the PGA tour, unfortunately, this problem does not go anywhere.
Jack Mirco is a golf staff writer playing SB Nation. Please follow him in X @jack_milko。
