Posted on 10/11/2006 11:52:00 AM PDT by wagglebee
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Technology, money and Tiger Woods are hurting golf, according to two-time British Open winner Greg Norman.
The Australian, who is playing in this week's Spanish Senior Open, said Tuesday that golf will be in major trouble if the U.S. PGA Tour doesn't manage the sport more carefully. "With fewer and fewer people watching golf in America, the sport has become stagnant," Norman said.
Some U.S. tour events this year reportedly saw significant declines in American television viewership from 2005, such as a 56 percent drop for the Bob Hope Classic, a 50 percent decline for the season-opening Mercedes Championship and a 37.5 percent drop for the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
Some analysts have said that Woods being in contention is a major factor in ratings, such as the 22 percent increase in August for the final round of his U.S. PGA Championship victory, but ratings when he successfully defended his title at Doral were still off by 16 percent.
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Hey Norm...jealousy is an unattractive trait. Go hang with your buddy, Billy Clinton.
A has-been golfer and an ex-president don't have anywhere near the appeal that sluts are looking for these days.
I don't know why you care what rawhide thinks is decent and what isn't. I know I don't give a sh-t.
FWIW - I don't care. Sorry, but I really don't care if you think Tiger's cursing is bad. I think his language is no different than what I hear almost every day.
Apparently, I hit a nerve.
'Cause it was late, and I was bored.
You can say that again.
Hahaha! Beat me to that.
If everyone stops watching golf on TV, then the golfers will be playing for the love of the game,again.
Greg Norman must not be winning any purses.
I'm glad to see that....now if he could just stay from Clinton
It wasn't my favorite. If I'd been there, I'd have hit his shins with his club.
I miss Paine Stewart and rarely watch golf since his death.
<< But I'd still like to see one tourney where all the players use the exact same equipment. I think that would be fun to watch. >>
But only if you and I and the waggles chose their gear. Otherwise one or more of them would be using his own - or something close.
And, on a not entirely dissimilar note, a scratch player I regularly caddied for when I was a kid (One time when he was paired with Gary Player) once beat me around 18 holes.
Using only his putter. Good is good.
Pinehurst is just over an hour from where I live now. Maybe sometime in the next year I can play there.
I feel the same way and have not been a Woods fan since the day he enlisted the help of some spectators to move a large rock that was blocking his ball. I came to think of him as a cheater that day. Haven't watched much golf since.
Great one! They did crash and burn like the Hindenberg.
I agree entirely. Clinton would be a great addition to any party, as long as your wife, sister, mother, female cat weren't around. We would have preferred his being a pure socialite to being Prez.
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