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Post by legitimategolf on Nov 28, 2019 18:03:36 GMT
In keeping with Shack's policy of only mentioning women's golf when there's a rules violation, poor ratings or a scandal, there's this: www.geoffshackelford.com/homepage/2019/11/27/ratings-lpgas-season-finale-down-33According to Sports Business Journal’s weekend roundup, the CME Tour Group Championship drew a .3 and an average of 395,000 viewers on NBC, down 33% from last year’s final round on ABC. The rating made it by far the lowest rated sports event on network TV last weekend and as Paulsen notes at Sports Media Watch “easily” the lowest since its run on broadcast TV dating to 2015. Figure skating, on tape, drew double the audience.
Yes, that's typical Shack ... but numbers are numbers and facts are facts - the ratings sucked! Squeezing millions out of CME and AON for ratings like that? No wonder the LPGA board signed Whan to a "long term" contract extension last week:
In case you missed it, Stacy Lewis wrote a whoa-is-us article on the state of the LPGA vs. the PGA Tour:
Of all people to write such tripe ... she must be the most heavily sponsored American on the LPGA, the equivalent to what you'd see for the biggest stars playing the KLPGA or JLPGA.
What a jerkass move to point a finger at corporate sponsors like that, the people who are actually doing something. I suppose it's harder to point a finger at "the golf-watching public" or to scold people who don't actually exist.
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Post by HappyFan on Nov 29, 2019 7:46:33 GMT
Let's face it, this event was a referendum on Nelly. They hyped her up big time prior to the tournament and even at the end, with such article headlines as "Nelly Korda reflects on SY Kim's winning putt". It's clear by now that Nelly is not going to save golf. She is good looking, and blonde, and social-media active though. This don't add up. I suspect she just don't have enough shits to give. Maybe "Korda" sounds too ethnic or foreign. I don't know. We (USA) are stupid after all. I like Nelly, certainly more than a lot of the pre-ordained stars they are trying to tell us we will really like. But there's something about her that's kind of vanilla and bland. Not a charisma vacuum per se, but not a sparkling figure, either. Still, she's tall, blonde and American, and she wins, and that should be more than enough (yet somehow isn't).
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Post by philknj on Nov 30, 2019 0:12:54 GMT
Now I'm going to use a $10 word (I double-checked the definition at dictionary.com): Women's golf is not has never been part of the American sports ethos ... regardless of Whan's considerable accomplishments, he can't change that. On the other hand, women's golf is part of the sports ethos in Asia. Sung Hung made more than double the money on the KLPGA in 2017 compared to the leading money winner on the KPGA that season. Bo Mee still has the all-human record in Japan of ¥230 M in 2015 .... Shugo Imahira has ¥157 M this year on the JGTO and Ai Suzuki as ¥153 M!
The U.S. is nuts about men's golf only. My last visit to a PGA Tour event was the Tuesday practice round of the 2011 Barclay's at Plainfield CC .... holy crap, what a zoo and Tiger wasn't even there! Stacy Lewis needs to look at some of the JLPGA broadcasts on YouTube, where she will see MOBS OF MANIACS hanging on every shot! When she starts getting that week in and week out in the U.S., then we can revisit her complaints.
To the casual American sports fan, the LPGA had been DARK for the last six weeks (off-week after VOA, four weeks in Asia, and another off-week after that) ... then all of a sudden the CME pops up on network TV on a Sunday during football season and nobody notices and/or cares. In a way, I can't blame people for the lack of interest .... as a year-end event, what was at stake? NOTHING! (trophies are much more memorable to the public than money) All the LPGA awards had been settled beforehand. Even I was too busy last week to watch any of it. There are definitely temporary upticks of interest in women's golf in the US ... for instance, the 2015 USWO at Lancaster was just crazy, Patty Sheehan getting weepy at the 1990 USWO, but it doesn't last.
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Post by don on Nov 30, 2019 3:58:28 GMT
The only sports that do it right are tennis and wrestling. The women are at the same event as the men.
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