The sport of golf is in a really fractured place proper now so far as leisure is anxious.
Let me be clear and say that I completely love golf. I really like enjoying golf, I really like watching golf and I really like golf content material normally.
However the sport of golf has made being a fan of golf and watching golf a tough factor to do.
I say all of this to say that the introduction of TGL final week was a really thrilling factor for any person like me. TGL is successfully and primarily simulator golf with the most important names within the sport lining up to participate, mic’d up and entertaining away (even when they’re golfers).
Tuesday evening provided us the newest rendition of TGL and Los Angeles Golf Membership (my chosen crew, no massive deal) completely destroyed Jupiter Hyperlinks. Sentences like that one nonetheless really feel foolish to jot down, however the league is new so you need to roll with a few of that.
As an avid golf fan I watched each little bit of it and loved it, however I’d be mendacity if I mentioned the sports activities fan in me was not additionally conserving tabs on Florida getting upset by Mizzou on the similar time. SEC basketball is a crucial factor and anticipating TGL to grow to be appointment tv straight away is an formidable endeavor, however a part of the explanation why I used to be watching the Gators and Tigers was that the TGL motion was getting stale.
It’s abundantly clear that an infinite amount of cash, timing and energy has been put into TGL within the title of it being profitable. I’d not guess towards it occurring long-term. Clearly I’m rooting for it.
However even solely two weeks in we now firmly know, as if we didn’t earlier than, that every two-hour outing can’t merely be professional golfers teasing each other. We all know that we aren’t going to see wonderful golf photographs provided that this can be a simulator league… and that’s okay! It’s cool! We additionally don’t want the conversations between the players to be enthralling. However one thing, something, needs to be the hook for this new league or it’s going to be destined to the identical destiny that has fallen upon each rendition of The Match.
I’m not going to behave like I do know what the precise reply is, however I’m going to inform you that I am going out of my solution to devour an infinite quantity of golf content material on tv, on social media, on YouTube… so on and so forth. And at the same time as somebody like that, I nonetheless want one thing to carry my full consideration towards an SEC basketball sport on a Tuesday evening.
The preliminary shock, awe, enjoyable and “that is cool”-ness of all of it is fading only a bit.
We want extra.
