Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:57 am EDT
So we've been forcing the Presidents Cup down your throat all week here at Devil Ball without even bothering to ask if you'd like some more. That's rather rude of us. So let's back up a bit and ask -- are you even excited about the Presidents Cup?
Let's think about this for a second. One of the major problems with the golf "season" is that it's not really a season in the accepted sense of the term. Everything wraps with the Tour Championship ... except that the very next week, the Turning Stone begins the fall schedule. This would be like playing the Super Bowl, and then the very next week a dozen teams that didn't make the playoffs start playing once again. Mix in things like the Ryder Cup, the Presidents Cup and half a dozen other one-off events, and it's easy to see how any one of those can get overlooked or disregarded.
Plus, there's the team factor. Some viewers just don't really care to watch teams of golfers play, and I can understand that. Golf's a solitary game, one that places individual achievement at its highest pinnacle. It doesn't adapt easily to a team-based format. (Just think how many gyrations you have to go through in order to make any kind of team game fair ... and make sure your boss stays happy.)
And then there's the familiarity. It's not like an All-Star game, where you never see these guys playing together. You see Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson and Geoff Ogilvy and everybody else tee it up together almost every single week. So the sense of the "new" is missing. (Plus, most of these guys live near each other anyway. Lanny Wadkins once dismissed the Presidents Cup by saying, "Why would I want to fly around the world to play a bunch of guys from Orlando?"
Still, I'm stoked. I love head-to-head play; matter of fact, I'd like to see more of it. And seeing how the solitary stars work in a team environment is always interesting. So yeah, I'm all over this. But how about you?
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The great vast low IQ audience that now calls itself American is only too happy to oblige.
Daa. Hey,I gotta an idea? Let's create an end of season golf tournament with all da flag wavin yahoo's and ra ra's to make it work and imagine the money we can make in ad sponsorship!
Lets let em dress up in matching uniforms like good little military weenies as the Colonies take on the rest of the world and swear to win one for the Gipper! Teary eyed promos are filmed as "our boys" march on and subsequently watched by our vast 35 handicap and over audience!
When are they gonna make golf a contact sport?
My only gripe? Why cant Christina Kim be on the team?
Daa,I watch more of it den........
You da man Tiger and Christine!
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Now you know why dere aint no *Rushkies in da Cup.
*Putins Redcoats.
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Cheers,
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Just have fun and who cares who wins ! ?
Not the awful and hated ' war - like ' mentality of the Ryder Cup
that the golf media really loves and thrives on ! - Ahem !
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cant beat watching tiger and strick just dominate today
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Your opinions are not appreciated and cannot be forced on us "regular" people who love the game of golf -- the skill levels, the scenic courses, etc.
Great golf today!
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