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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I think if this whole process has shown anything, it's that even golf fans struggle to care about most events. So with LIV diluting things with more events, and then the PGA diluting things with this new PGA Champions League or whatever....future for televised golf not looking so good right now. Not sure how you attract new viewers, and you're definitely going to lose some people because of all of this.
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It's hard to figure out what the right answer is.
The PGA tour has to keep their top players happy, or they'll lose them. Should they be looking out for the 51-125 type guys too? They are still elite golfers and a lot of them are the future of the sport, but these guys don't have much leverage at all. They also need to do what the fans want as well or they'll lose them and have nothing. Those 3 groups all have conflicting interests and doing what's right for one is likely hurting the others. Also, what the PGA tour has to do to fight off liv, isn't necessary great for their tour's business.
I like having regular golf on TV to watch every week. I'll take the pga tour in its current form over having 18 elite league tournaments a year. It kind of dilutes the majors too, if every tournament has all the top players.
You can't have tournaments every single week and have the top players in all of them.