awesome....as for the golf channel shell thing, having my first kid, now 6months old, i have had many a early morning shell show from 4am too 6am...the pleasure of watching naturals go at it and even commentating their opponents next shot!!!! wouldnt that be blast to see tiger decipher a phil mickey special live!
personnal opinion, (im going back to the different swings topic), is that having a chance to see more than one way to skin a cat leads to finding different personnalitys and 'sellability' of the game as well....
i mean, if everyone wrote the same way, you will never notice and applaud a good writer...same for the swing imo....
my dad always sang 'i did it myyyyyy wayyyyyy'....lol.
i think you are correct, there should be a mix of examples and results.
nice pickin your brain, no wonder some send a 'bucket' load of questions
Powerdraw,
I've got some great footage from the shows of Player, Palmer, Snead, Venturi, Nelson, etc. Fun to watch.
As far as marketing, I think the tour is missing the bus. There are contributing factors. They promote only a select few, so when someone else wins it's Cinderella. Often, Cinderella has been making a steady run for years. The courses the tour selects, esp TPC, may provide drama of miss or make, but they don't offer a wide range of possible shots. Most courses want long, high shots. The players adapt to the conditions.
Now the tour has the Fed Ex Cup. It's an artificial way to get the top players to play the same week. It may be a fantastic month of golf. I'm concerned about the tourneys after. The draw to tournaments for tour players (who can't play every week) begins with the golf course and the title. Purse matters too. If the tour played more great courses, we would see more great golf, with the top players facing each other.
Hybrid Mode
