Completed 44 hours of first-class golf.
We got to 14 of them.
Pathetic.
The Women’s PGA Championship was played for the third time this season, the Women’s PGA Championship, at the historic Congress Country Club away from home in Maryland, USA.
The decision was, as usual, exciting. Some of the biggest names fought for victory, swung back and forth and we TV viewers enjoyed great entertainment.
What’s left of the competition week then?
Well, who knows.
Of the 44 hours of master golf, only 14 hours of golf were broadcast.
Somewhere heads have to roll.
hypocrisy
There is a lot of talk about “investing” in women’s golf and of course – the prize money is increasing at a rapid pace and competitions are increasingly determined on classic courses.
Like now:
- The total prize money for this year’s PGA Championship has doubled compared to last year (from $4.5 million to $9 million).
- This was the first time ever that a professional women’s competition was played at the famous Congress Country Club.
All this is great.
But it seems hypocritical when the “investment” is still being abused by these collisions in broadcast television.
Viaplay backbound
Whose fault is it?
It probably depends who you ask.
Swedish Viaplay Retracted; They buy broadcasts from US NBC/Golf, which in turn decides where, when, and how it will be broadcast on TV.
The bottom line is that women’s golf attracts far fewer television viewers in the United States than men’s golf.
Money talks, as they are called.
And NBC is following the money.
I find it hard to blame them. It’s a business that revolves around it and I myself am part of a business. We at Sportbladet write so little about women’s golf, because so few people read. But we have no accounting obligation.
On the other hand, duty and responsibility LPGAThe tours themselves and all these companies and pampers who are making money to prove that they are “investing” in women’s golf.
If NBC doesn’t want to invest, someone else might.
It is clear that there is no shortage of money.
Pathetic
From this year’s PGA Championship, NBC chose to broadcast: four hours on Thursday, four hours on Friday, three hours on Saturday and three hours today.
Taste it: three (!) pitiful hours of a crucial tour of the specialty.
So we were denied half the drama.
Nothing but pathetic.
On Saturday, even television broadcasts were turned off before the tour ended, which is embarrassing.
No, the giants can raise prize money as best they want, but as long as little girls and boys can’t watch their idols on TV, women’s golf won’t be able to grow even near its full potential.
I don’t order class TV broadcasts with those of the men’s majors with hundreds of camera angles, ‘Featured combos’, ‘Featured holes’ and ‘ShotLink’ on each individual player.
But I think you can claim more than we’re getting right now – one big accident.
Who will solve it?
I don’t know.
But just solve it.
