Ed's Shout - Golf Editorial
Dump These Made For TV Events, says Loud Mouth Ed!
European Tour fans have been subjected to two weeks off from the regularly formatted excitement of the search for the Order of Merit winner and the fight for Tour survival lower down the list. Two proper events must be better than these!
I hate pro-ams! It’s bad enough that some players trying to make a living are subjected to playing with ‘choppers’ the day before competing in most tournaments in regular pro-ams. Making them team up with various celebs during an actual event really finishes me off!
I’m sure the players don’t appreciate this format any more than I do. The only people who might enjoy this must be the star struck armchair non golfers who only tune in once a year. You know? A bit like Wimbledon tennis fans!
As a spectator, I have no interest in watching Ronan Keating hit his 5 wood 175 yards and nowhere near the flag, or seeing Samuel L. Jackson’s ideas on golf fashion; its bad enough enduring their crap records and bad movies! (Pulp Fiction excluded, naturally). And is it just me, or is Bill Murray’s Caddyshack impersonation every time the camera is on him getting a little tiresome?
But at least ‘The Links’ is at the end of the day a proper tournament, with a winner and ‘x’ amount of euros dished out and totted up in the Order of Merit. This is a lot more than can be said for The Seve Trophy! Wake me up someone please!!
This poorest of poor man’s Ryder Cup could not have been of interest to anyone at all except, well………Seve? Surely the great man’s legacy to us must be more than to bore the ‘you know what’ out of us every couple of years? I’ll take the European players that couldn’t be bothered to play to beat the best of the combined 20 on display! This is possibly the best illustration of the thoughts and the real value of the tournament to the players themselves, coinciding with most that was written by journalists on the subject.
There was however one great moment. Colin Montgomerie asked the whole gallery to move out of his line of vision for a putt. I can’t believe this has ever happened before? I should add though that the whole gallery consisted of one rather surprised man and his wife, who subsequently took umbrage at the request! My only regret was that the TV mike was too far away to pick up the man’s reply, which must have been something along the lines of,
‘Sod off Mrs. Doubtfire and get on with your bloody putt!’
Navigating back to the homepage, you will get a chance to have your shout on this issue. Let me keep it simple’
Loud Mouth Ed says,
‘Dump the Seve Trophy, it’s boring, pointless and needs replacing with a proper tour event at an exciting time of the season’.
Source : ed. - Updated 07/10/2007
Major amateur events should only have one round per day
