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Post by haneymademedoit on Apr 30, 2024 5:18:15 GMT
This was originally published last Friday in USA Today. It's showing up in a local of local USA Today affiliates since then. It was in my local small town paper on Monday 4/29.
Any opinions? He raises some valid points in my opinion. - LPGA fails to take advantage of what could be a huge media interest, Korda's quest for record consecutive wins
- NBC/Golf channel inept at presenting women's golf
- Korda herself does little to promote LPGA to the media, he makes a big contrast to Caitlin Clark in women's basketball
Not sure what to make of this statement, "After years of unfairly blaming the prominence of Asian players for struggling to connect with stateside audiences, the LPGA now has a 25-year-old American from a prominent sporting family dominating the sport."
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Post by aptrojan on May 1, 2024 23:25:03 GMT
Nelly is too (self admitted) introverted and awkward to be doing all this due diligence as ambassador for the game. Just put her in more commercials and ads. Maybe a guest spot on NCIS Hawaii.
The broadcast is horrible, too many commercials and we only see the same 2 / 3 groups. I wish they would have more featured groups on ESPN+ for all events not majors - it would certainly bring in more casual viewers.
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Post by philknj on May 2, 2024 0:54:05 GMT
Nelly is too (self admitted) introverted and awkward to be doing all this due diligence as ambassador for the game. Yeah, she couldn't keep the hair out of her face during her Olympic golf medal ceremony.
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Post by haneymademedoit on May 2, 2024 20:13:09 GMT
Nelly is too (self admitted) introverted and awkward to be doing all this due diligence as ambassador for the game. Yeah, she couldn't keep the hair out of her face during her Olympic golf medal ceremony.
The media won't leave her alone. How many times has Nelly finished a round in 3rd or 5th on the leaderboard and they stick a microphone at her.
A few minutes later, one of the sisters finishes in 2nd or 3rd but no interview.
Nelly seems to keep the whole media hype machine somehow in balance without interfering with her game. I continue to believe that the media hype damaged Lexi's career.
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Post by bullfinch on May 3, 2024 6:59:35 GMT
The biggest obstacle for golf being “made for TV” is it takes too long. We are never going to change that. The issue for women’s golf is trying to reap the benefits of growth in women’s sport on TV. It looks like in the US women’s basketball coverage is taking off whilst in the UK women’s football is growing big time. We probably need some kind of rivalry like Navratilova v Evert to ignite golf but it’s not really that type of sport.
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Post by HappyFan on May 3, 2024 14:47:52 GMT
It's not enough to be American. The media picks its favorites and will play those players up at the expense of logic, taste and decency. For whatever reason, Korda is not their choice and so they don't give her the kind of attention she probably merits. It doesn't help that she doesn't like playing the media game and is as boring as dirt. My theory: I think winning all the time works against her. Why? Because: who can relate to her? People want to cheer for underdogs, and she is by no stretch of the imagination an underdog. She won the genetic lottery in height, has a millionaire father who was a top level athlete (whose genes she inherited), and has had access to golf facilities from an early age that someone like working class Jin Young or In Gee couldn't have dreamed about. Plus being American, tall and blonde, she will always get top treatment from the league, the American media, the fans and the sponsors. Is it really fun to root for someone with so many advantages to beat up the less fortunate time and again? It's like rooting for Ivan Drago in Rocky IV. 'I must break you' Drago famously said.  Below: Nelly vs. a typical LPGA star; note that the height difference is usually even more extreme with Nelly.  |
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Post by legitimategolf on May 9, 2024 19:29:37 GMT
Have to laugh my ass off because Nelly is every bit as 'robotic' as any of those slandered Korean LPGA winners from back in the day. At least the USA today kind of alludes to that. Unlike this garbage slate.com/culture/2024/05/nelly-korda-golf-lpga-tiger-woods-caitlin-clark.html which just blames everyone, and without a shred of consideration for Nelly herself, what she is like and what she actually might want in life. Guess these people just don't know her like we do. That includes Stacy Lewis, what an asshole. "YOU NEED TO GIVE THE MEDIA A COUPLE HOURS A WEEK", Jesus Christ. re: Happy's point, I also see some bias from the media. There is a lot going on there I think. Parents are foreign and not the interesting kind evidently. Dad's professional reputation not that great. Nelly started her pro career with a very foreign main sponsor. And maybe she can be seen as part of an annoying, elitist clan. The family themselves joke and call themselves Kordashians and maybe they are reaping what they sow. Nelly on her own is totally cool, a boss, and her own big story, but those Korda people, taken all together, maybe was a bit too much. Or just maybe the US public don't have a lot of shits to give about women's golf period. My niece plays high school golf but can't name more than four LPGA players active or inactive and assumed that Rose Zhang is the #1 greatest best player in the world. Nelly only just now got on her radar after the news started reporting on the win streak. |
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Post by philknj on May 10, 2024 0:14:52 GMT
My niece plays high school golf but can't name more than four LPGA players active or inactive and assumed that Rose Zhang is the #1 greatest best player in the world.
BTW, I've never seen one second (live or taped) of Caitlin Clark playing basketball ... mainly because I have no use for basketball by men or women. Back in the day when I listened to sports talk on the car radio, I remember a guy called up Mike Francessa and wanted to talk about the WNBA and Mike F. just chopped him off at the ankles ... he had NOTHING to say about women's basketball and said the WNBA would fold up in two seconds if the NBA stopped subsidizing it. |
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Post by verdantgarden on May 10, 2024 1:09:56 GMT
I am of two minds regarding this. It's not that I don't care if the LPGA becomes popular - whatever that may be - it's that I'm used to being into niche sports and it just won't deter me from being a fan if it doesn't.
The LPGA is a relatively recent interest of mine. I started following it during the 2002 season. I became a big fan of women's basketball when the NCAA took over the championship cycle in the mid-1980's. I became enamored of track & field when they held the Mexico City Olympics and I've been into chess since when Dad taught me when I was a little kid. Hey, if you like poorly-run and corrupt international federations, get into high-level chess.
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