Have golf TV suggestions? The PGA Tour desires to listen to from you (!)

We convey this information to you fastidiously — and hopefully — my golf-watchers of the world.

You, too, could make your voice heard within the struggle to enhance golf on tv.

We convey this information to you fastidiously not as a result of we imagine it unimportant — however relatively as a result of we’re selecting to be optimistic. Might this be step one to the perfect information golf watchers have obtained in years?

For the primary time in latest reminiscence, you may give suggestions on the state of golf’s broadcasts on to the PGA Tour. And for the primary time perhaps ever, the PGA Tour is asking to obtain it — and contemplating your modifications, in real-time.

The survey will not be new. A minimum of not technically. The PGA Tour’s “Fan Ahead” program has been in existence because the center of the summer season, when Tour commissioner Jay Monahan first rolled out plans for a survey for followers to supply suggestions on the PGA Tour product.

At first, this system gave the impression to be the newest in a string of half-hearted “fan-focused” efforts by the PGA Tour; pursuits taken to indicate golf’s viewers wasn’t fully forgotten in broader discussions in regards to the state of golf’s future. However in latest months these modifications have taken on a brand new type, with the Tour and its companions committing to a brand new, TV-focused “pilot program” for the PGA Tour fall season aimed toward listening to these very modifications.

The brand new program, as we’ve written about prior to now right here on the Sizzling Mic, is supposed to check a number of new Tour TV improvements within the coming months, together with the enlargement of on-course interviews, the realignment of the Friday afternoon telecast, and a keener deal with items of reside golf tv that attraction to followers. However it’s additionally meant to earn suggestions from followers in real-time, assessing the state of the Tour’s telecasts and its innovation efforts as they’re being examined.

Whereas it stays unclear precisely how this information will assist the PGA Tour serve its viewers — proper now the survey is simply that, a survey — the Tour’s broader pursuit in its Friday night telecast experiments shouldn’t be ignored. For the primary time in latest reminiscence, the Tour is addressing its broadcast woes head-on, and taking actionable pursuits within the public eye to repair them.

The largest desired change of golf followers — fewer commercials — stays a pipe dream for the instant future. The Tour is locked up in media rights agreements by means of the top of the last decade that necessitate a sure variety of industrial interruptions per event spherical. However broader modifications stay up for debate, issues like promoting packaging and golf TV positioning.

Followers who want to take part on this survey can observe the hyperlink right here. Glad searching!

James Colgan

Golf.com Editor

James Colgan is a information and options editor at GOLF, writing tales for the web site and journal. He manages the Sizzling Mic, GOLF’s media vertical, and makes use of his on-camera expertise throughout the model’s platforms. Previous to becoming a member of GOLF, James graduated from Syracuse College, throughout which era he was a caddie scholarship recipient (and astute looper) on Lengthy Island, the place he’s from. He could be reached at james.colgan@golf.com.