Super League Predictions
I like it "ocassionally". We went to one event at Dump National (
). Good fan experience.
I predict the Saudis will get bored once they've over-invested and move on. Hopefully without any deaths.
I’m sick of them all AND the Golf Channel. Haven’t watched golf on TV in forever
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I've grown weary of the "asset spreading". The best players in the world are scattered between 3 leagues. Here's an opinon I just saw. He makes a point.
Professional Golf is Screwed (and deserves to be)
In my estimation, there's zero change that LIV and the PGA Tour can co-exist and both succeed. The audience isn't there.
I watch a lot of soccer where the best players in the world are spread across 5 or 6 leagues. And while it's true that nobody watches Saudi soccer (including the Saudi's themselves), the global fanbase is broad enough such that there are enough eyeballs for everyone.
Professional golf is different. The audience pales in comparison, and not for anything, for those who care (or used to) your choice is rapidly become one between a league that exists only to make Saudi Arabia palatable for investment and tourism and another that is rapidly transforming into something that exists only to enrich the players that stuck around.
In either case, the fan experience is Golf, but shittier 
We aren't part of the conversation, and because of it, apathy towards the professional game is on the rise. With distribution of talent further diluting the game by the week, it won't be long before neither league is worth watching.
Maybe we're already there.
-TC
sdandrea1 I've only watched LIV for a couple minutes. It's a shit show.
They do have some of the best golfers in the world, no questioning it. But now they need to change the format to what everyone wants to see, and what their players need. 72 holes, no shotgun start; there doesn't have to be any cut. It's in the best interest of the players in that they will be given ranking points.(maybe??) More of them would be playing majors, making them even stronger fields.
It would also make the viewing a bit more palatable, as a 'normal'(as we know it) professional golf tournament.
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sdandrea1 In my estimation, there's zero change that LIV and the PGA Tour can co-exist and both succeed. The audience isn't there.
Yeah exactly. I've been saying the same thing. Golf isn't big enough for competing leagues. If the audience isn't there (and it isn't) it becomes oversaturated.
The second season of Full Swing on Netflix just dropped. I've watched the first two episodes and they get into the LIV issue behind the scenes.
The dilemma is LIV is failing miserably, but has the resources to keep going regardless of whether it's a success. The PGA Tour has the brand and market share (viewership etc..), but can't compete with the money LIV is paying it's players.
So as it stands now it's not a good long term scenario for either.
Lefty posted a nice little 80 today for dead last. The Saudis are gonna want their money back. Phil could be in trouble.......
This LIV business can't survive. It seems like a circus, like the many pro-football side projects that come and go. I'm curious to see how long it takes for the sponsorship to get bored.
I tuned in for approximately 45 minutes yesterday to watch the LIV event.
I found it impossible to make sense of who was actually leading the tournament. I kept pressing the exit button on my tv remote hoping that maybe it would remove the multi-colored scoring box on the left of the screen, sort of like we try to close advertising windows on our computers. Totally annoying.
The aim point feature on the greens is only as useful as the viewer’s ability to actually see the hole - the actual target. And since they’re just as bad as the PGA tour telecasts with showing 5x as many putts as actual golf swings, that’s pretty annoying.
And during the 45 minutes of viewing, there were maybe 3 golfers who I recognized.
To me, it felt like a second rate Asian tour event with an algebraic scoring system.
