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

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

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

We convey this information to you rigorously not as a result of we consider it unimportant — however quite as a result of we’re selecting to be optimistic. Might this be step one to one of the best information golf watchers have acquired in years?

For the primary time in current reminiscence, you can provide suggestions on the state of golf’s broadcasts on to the PGA Tour. And for the primary time possibly ever, the PGA Tour is asking to obtain it — and contemplating your adjustments, in real-time.

The survey is just not new. At the least not technically. The PGA Tour’s “Fan Ahead” program has been in existence for the reason that 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 concerning the state of golf’s future. However in current months these adjustments have taken on a brand new kind, with the Tour and its companions committing to a brand new, TV-focused “pilot program” for the PGA Tour fall season geared toward listening to these very adjustments.

The brand new program, as we’ve written about prior to now right here on the Scorching 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 concentrate on items of reside golf tv that attraction to followers. Nevertheless 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 just that, a survey — the Tour’s broader pursuit in its Friday night telecast experiments shouldn’t be ignored. For the primary time in current reminiscence, the Tour is addressing its broadcast woes head-on, and taking actionable pursuits within the public eye to repair them.

The most important 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 way of the tip of the last decade that necessitate a sure variety of industrial interruptions per match spherical. However broader adjustments stay up for debate, issues like promoting packaging and golf TV positioning.

Followers who want to take part on this survey can comply with the hyperlink right here. Joyful 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 Scorching 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 period he was a caddie scholarship recipient (and astute looper) on Lengthy Island, the place he’s from. He might be reached at james.colgan@golf.com.