re: TGL golf league tonight 8p ESPN

Shot clock should be shorter than 40 seconds

I like it so far. But I've only watched a few holes.

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They built an entire building that was destroyed and had to be rebuilt. All the tech isn't cheap. It doesn't make any sense.

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I thought this was something they could take on tour to different arenas

My wife and I watched it for a few minutes. To the hardcore golf fans who watch every weekend, I hate to break it to you, but you aren’t the target audience for this. The comment from someone in this thread that said “Moving too fast” made me chuckle. That’s literally the common persons biggest beef with golf. The shot clock was a great add to keep the pace moving. My wife thinks golf is the most boring thing on the planet but said she enjoyed watching this.

Golf has to pivot to survive with younger Millenials, Gen Z, Gen A and soon to be Gen B. They are trying something new and I applaud their efforts here. This was creative and entertaining.

The key will be whether it is sustainable or not. Does it have staying power is it a novelty that gets old after the first few nights?

This has private equity money written all over it.

My wife actually thought it was cool. I was shocked when I put golf on and could see her looking up from her tablet to watch. The only other time my wife has shown any interest in golf is when we get tickets to the zurich.

After sleeping on it I realized I stayed up to watch the entire thing myself. It’s not my brand of golf but for a Tuesday night it’s not half bad.

There is no real off season on the PGA tour.

The golfers seemed to enjoy it, to me that adds to the appeal of hearing the off-cuff conversations. This league's viability is going to depend on how popular this is with the other pro golfers.

If more golfers get excited about it and want to compete, that'll draw more people in. Maybe they could have Korn Ferry Tour guys on, or some golf influencers to shake things up.

I liked it, I think it's clearly marketed towards a younger demographic. It's not supposed to replace real golf, we still have that Thusdays-Sundays.

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No one has been able to explain who asked for this? They have a hard enough time getting viewers for regular golf.

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It’s very similar to watching YouTube Golf. If you like that you probably enjoyed it, if you don’t like that, you probably won’t like this, But I enjoyed it

It was exactly what they said it was going to be. They hit real golf shots into a bunch of technology, it was a fast, fun, not so serious version of golf.

I think people just like to bash anything that is new, if you didn’t like this, then I don’t think you were ever going to like it because it was exactly what they promised it was going to be.

They’ll clean up some of the little things as they go, and if the match was actually close, it would’ve been a lot more entertaining, but it’s not like the league can control that.


I like seeing some of the players personalities come out hopefully they will give us more of their chatter next time and less announcer.

It’s not to be taken as seriously as a real golf tournament and if you tuned it wanting to treat it like that you were probably annoyed.

I don't why there is a small delay when the ball hits the screen. I own a simulator club with Full Swing Simulator and there is zero delay. Maybe it is a deferent tech because of the large screen...