Evolution of Professional Golf: From Tradition to New Media

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00:00The next kind of thing I want to talk about it kind of has to do with with the stuff with kids

00:05It's it's really about the state of the game called when we talk about

00:09What professional golf, you know used to look like for us, which was the you know, the main show in town

00:14There wasn't YouTube golf. There wasn't TGL. There wasn't live golf

00:17It was a simpler time everybody

00:19You know had appointment TV with their dads their granddads on Sundays to go watch golf on the couch

00:25And it was routine for a lot of people and now we've kind of gotten into golf being very popular as a sport

00:34Celebrities care about it. Everybody wants into all these celebrity pro-ams. That's seems to be popular

00:39You get the birth of YouTube golf. That's kind of taking over

00:43TGL live like I mentioned and then of course the grass league, which I want to talk to you a little bit about

00:48I mean when you when we when I mentioned all of that like for you

00:52What stands out about just where the game is with all the the moving parts and you know kind of where the tour fits in?

01:00Yeah, it's just wild to think I mean growing up. I mean, I'm 39 years old now

01:04And I mean I got into the game when I was 12

01:07Tiger won the Masters right before I turned 13 and just thinking like here's the PGA Tour

01:14There so you can see in the screen. There's the PGA Tour and I mean way down here is everything else, right?

01:19I mean, this is the goal like my dream wasn't to be on the European tour, even though I know I'm American

01:24But my dream wasn't to be on the Corn Ferry tour or anything else

01:27Like the PGA Tour was it and everyone knew that and that's why it was such a big deal when you got there

01:32And then all of a sudden, you know, they're not the only show in town

01:36Live comes around throws ridiculous amounts of money at guys and into the purses

01:43Listen it's it's been great financially for professional golfers hasn't been good for the professional game

01:49In my opinion, no

01:50It's it's it's divided the game. It's fractured the game

01:54And I think it's probably pushed a lot of the just average viewer away

01:59Like yeah, all they talk about is money

02:01There's all this this tension arguing like I don't care about this

02:05Like I just want to watch the best players in the world play

02:07so if you're not a diehard like you and I are or a lot of my friends like

02:11You don't you're like, okay, that's cool. These guys can go play golf. I don't really care

02:15And that's unfortunate because I want to see these guys

02:18I want to see golf grow more than ever and it is like more people are playing golf more than ever

02:24It's just they're not watching it

02:25I think they're just really sick of all everything that's going on with the division and golf's not big enough

02:31This isn't the NFL the NBA or Major League Baseball

02:34Like golf just doesn't have enough people

02:37Tuning in to have half the audience watching one tour and half the audience watching another tour. That's right

02:43I mean, that's just honest and like I love the PGA tour

02:46I had the opportunity to go to live when it first started to broadcast and I didn't go and

02:52I get hated on all the time that I'm a shill and all this and everything for the PGA tour and no one has ever

02:57Once told me what to say

02:59Like my opinions are my own

03:00Whether it's on CBS subpar gravy in the sleaze and I've taken plenty of shots at the PGA tour for how they've handled things

03:06On the shows I'm a part of but I'll be honest like I do watch live because I'm a golf junkie

03:12Now I want to watch those guys play. Do I enjoy watching the product? Absolutely not

03:16Like I think it's not that great of a product. It could be better, but I just want all this to go away

03:22I I and I don't think I think with the announcement that happened today

03:27With live sign with Fox. I mean, I think that just looks like all this hope of them coming together

03:32I'm just like oh, well, it's a multi-year deal. What are we gonna do now?

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