Golf still has ‘real issues’ despite PGA Tour’s deal with SSG | Golf Central | Golf Channel [Video]

0:00 | Paul I’ll turn to you you you wrote a

0:02 | really fascinating column on

0:04 | skysports.com addressed a number of

0:06 | topics one that really caught my

0:08 | attention was what you said about fans

0:11 | and what they want what is it you think

0:13 | they they’re looking for yeah I mean

0:15 | that’s the point I made at the start

0:16 | here you know we’re talking telephone

0:18 | numbers here and and you know Joe public

0:20 | out there who’s watching here could care

0:22 | less about this announcement today this

0:24 | is about rich golfers becoming richer

0:26 | and uh that does not turn on the public

0:29 | and what The Narrative around Golf and

0:31 | the divisiveness around golf in the last

0:33 | 18 months has driven people away from

0:35 | the game and away from the product of

0:37 | the PGA Tour and it’s not like live that

0:40 | has started up all of a sudden has taken

0:41 | all of those people that’s you know has

0:43 | not ignited at all in terms of the the

0:45 | public perception of that with obviously

0:47 | you know no network TV and and and and

0:49 | limited engagement from the public so

0:51 | golf is not in a good place and let’s

0:54 | not get away from that as much as this

0:55 | is a strategic move and a business move

0:58 | and it’s a stepping stone to trying to

0:59 | to put golf back together we have real

1:02 | issues within the game and we have those

1:04 | issues revolve around giving an

1:06 | adjustable interesting product to the

1:08 | fans out there that are going to be

1:09 | tuning in to watch you know we

1:11 | definitely need to somehow unify the

1:13 | game again and bring the best players

1:15 | together again that’s important but

1:17 | let’s also not lose the wonderful

1:18 | narrative that we had with NI Nick

1:19 | Dunlop a few a few weeks ago you know an

1:22 | amateur coming onto the scene and

1:23 | winning um you know is team golf the way

1:25 | forward I don’t know this fourman team

1:27 | that Liv say is a new secret of the

1:29 | future is that based on Market Research

1:31 | I haven’t heard a lot of people I don’t

1:33 | see people following to watch that all

1:35 | my friends at home in Ireland are not

1:36 | watching live they’re not interested in

1:38 | it they want to see iconic venues they

1:40 | want to see the top players playing

1:42 | together and they want to be excited and

1:43 | they want to have passion watching it so

1:45 | we have some serious issues within the

1:47 | game I know we spoke earlier about you

1:49 | know these these you know very

1:51 | successful people dealing in franchises

1:53 | in other sports you know you we got to

1:55 | come back and we got to create the

1:56 | passion and the Loyalty from the fan

1:58 | again because golf has has lost a lot of

2:00 | fans in the last 18 months and it’s

2:02 | broken and it needs a way to come back

2:04 | together this is a move in that

2:05 | direction but there is so much work

2:07 | together let’s never forget the fan pays

2:10 | the bill here it’s not us guys here it’s

2:12 | not the tour players the fan pays the

2:14 | bill we got to give him an adjustable

2:16 | interesting and passionate event that

2:18 | he’s going to tune in and watch did you

2:19 | think the the product was broken before

2:22 | Liv came two three years ago I thought

2:24 | it was tired okay I thought it was tired

2:26 | comfortable and I thought was too much

2:28 | monotony Johnson you know my question is

2:31 | you know talk about leadership and you

2:32 | can talk about J J Jay and you can talk

2:34 | about the boards and the game and

2:35 | everything the governance of the game

2:37 | this move I think is a good move because

2:40 | importantly it ties the players to the

2:41 | tour you know as independent Traders and

2:44 | members organizations the first guy

2:45 | coming in waving a wallet I thought it

2:47 | was going to be private Equity turned it

2:48 | out be the turned out to be the uh the

2:51 | Saudis they were off you know secure

2:53 | your products so that’s what this deal

2:54 | is done is securing the product um and

2:56 | you know maybe why wasn’t this looked at

2:57 | 5 10 years ago why did it not see what’s

2:59 | down the road when your product IE to

3:01 | players is not secure you got an issue

3:03 | it’s because the PGA Tour had gotten so

3:05 | comfortable Tiger Woods elevated the

3:06 | tour to a point and we just were resting

3:09 | on our Laurels so so they they say

3:11 | disruption is good we’ll see wouldn’t

3:13 | Rah and his Camp have known that this

3:16 | deal was was in the works and and

3:18 | wouldn’t the tour SSG people have gotten

3:21 | to Ramen as people to say hey hold on a

3:23 | second I know they’re waving a lot of

3:24 | money at you but we’ve been told you

3:26 | care about Legacy that there’s something

3:29 | in the works that you’re going to like

3:30 | wouldn’t that have happened I’m sure it

3:32 | did and why why would you say they still

3:34 | went why would you say Hatton went I’m

3:36 | sure Hatton they didn’t trust the

3:38 | leadership you know June 6th lost a lot

3:40 | of trust in leadership at a PGA Tour

3:42 | maybe they didn’t trust that and the

3:43 | money was certain over here and this was

3:46 | still a little bit edgy didn’t know what

3:47 | was going to happen it was a take it or

3:49 | leave it opportunity they took it who

3:50 | who knows but they would have known that

3:52 | the the something was cooking from the

3:54 | PGA Tours point of view H in order to

3:56 | provide equity for the

3:58 | players

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