What a sleeper. I don’t recognize any of the players or so called celebrities. Used to be a top tournament to watch.

    colej Over there, it was screaming!! No small 'talk' from those fells. Harold is probably getting as much as his lifetime earnings on the PGA. For 1 week's time!! And he's doing great.

        Tinker What a sleeper. I don’t recognize any of the players or so called celebrities. Used to be a top tournament to watch.

        I think it got to be too much of a celebrity clown show and very irritating for the pros who where playing to make a living and less appealing to viewers who wanted to watch real PGA pro golf. JMHO. And it could be about the TV marketing Benjamins as well.

            Too many players are willing too look the other way and take (greedy) appearance money from a country looking to ‘sports wash’ away is reputation as a human rights violator. Pure and simple.

            As far as the celebrity aspect. If we remember right a few years ago comedian George Lopez was the host of the old ‘Bob Hope’ tournament. His antics upset the old guard and he was fired from that duty. After that many celebs boycotted the tournament.

            And it spilled over to the Pebble Beach Tournament. Ironically when George Lopez interviewed Lee Trevino on the Golf Channel when he was the host, Lee said he thought that he (George) saved the tournament.

            Too many of the younger players in ALL sports don’t bother to learn the history of ‘their’ sport. It’s a shame really. Golf like baseball is reliant on tradition and historical perspective more than other sports.

            Too many of the younger generation are ignorant of their own sports history. To their own detriment imo.

            Rickochet I always preferred watching the celebrities. I can watch the pros anytime. It's just that the "celebrities" went from being Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin to guys I never even heard of.

              I know they're not Frank Sinatra but you've never heard of Josh Allen, Mookie Betts, Don Cheadle, Josh Duhamel, Larry Fitzgerald, Macklemore, Huey Lewis, Bill Murray, Chris O’Donnell, ScHoolboy Q , Alfonso Ribeiro, Ray Romano, Darius Rucker. or Steve Young?

                Yeah, I think part of the problem is we've aged and the old celebrities are all dead. And there were always plenty of B and C level celebs, but we've forgotten about those guys and remember Crosby, Hope, Glen Campbell, the big names of celeb golf of the 1970s. Ray Romano was an A-list guy for a while, Huey Lewis and Darius Rucker were big for a few years, too. Steve Young is a Hall of Famer and Larry Fitzgerald will be. When you watch reruns of Hogan's Heroes, Murder She Wrote, and Matlock instead of any new shows, you don't get to know any younger stars.

                  azgreg
                  Yes I have all ...it's called the same as it always has been called,
                  Attuned ....keep current by reading and accepting current events and times.
                  It's not difficult ... you just have to open your eyes ... ears ... and especially the biggest part of you, Your brain ...
                  Obviously some can not or won't.

                    ptjn1201 This.
                    I subscribed to Rolling Stone and to Entertainment Weekly well into my 50s, but after I stopped reading those magazines, I started to lose touch of the current celebrities.
                    They always had a mixed bag of big names and more minor people, but if you were keeping up with the world you knew who most of them were.

                      azgreg mookie Betts?? Schoolboy q???
                      Who the eff named these people??
                      The rest I have heard of in some form. Probably couldn't tell you what some of them are famous for, then others I could...

                        Walterjn
                        The most strategic team sport exemplified by the best team that you mentioned (born into a yankee household) ... yes.

                            You mean the Dallas Cowboys of baseball? Overhyped but under performing for recent history, living in the past?

                            Red Sox fan here... Lol.