{"id":320,"date":"2023-03-21T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2023-03-21T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:37:21","slug":"lick-my-bagcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Lick My BagCam"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 20, 2023<\/p>\n

So the PGA Tour in its unrelenting effort to debase itself and be exactly what it has mocked and decried the past year by imitating LIV Golf\u2019s small field, no-cut tournament structure has now seized on another shiny thing which has already proven to be as dull and uninspired as its walking interviews with the players as they play their shots.\u00a0 Seems the Tour strong-armed Justin Thomas into using a BagCam at the Valspar Championship last week so TV viewers could suffer another intrusive device that yields nothing of interest, but does alienate the very fans it should be trying to keep.<\/p>\n

The PGA Tour just can\u2019t seem to figure out what it wants to be, and so keeps running bad ideas up the flagpole to see which ADHD mouth-breathers will salute.\u00a0 Instead of breaking real ground by\u2026you know\u2026showing actual golf shots, NBC decided to get us \u201cup close\u201d by attaching a camera to J.T.\u2019s bag.\u00a0 The results were fascinating!\u00a0 You can imagine the slack jaws across the country as golf fans were treated to this must-see television.\u00a0 Fans got the real low-down and nitty gritty on exactly what a Justin Thomas headcover looks like.\u00a0 Glorious and resplendent with the Titleist TSR logo and everything, these headcovers were truly a thing of majesty, allowing us to really get the scoop on life inside the ropes.<\/p>\n

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Headcovers! Riveting television (Golf Channel)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Bones feels the burn
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Presumably someone performed a test run on this idea before foisting it on the public, but whoever it was surely reads in Braille.\u00a0 On first inspection it was an utter failure delivering 15 seconds of the aforementioned headcovers and a panoramic view of Thomas\u2019 caddie Bones Mackay stretching it out, but then NBC kept going to the well.\u00a0 Moments later we got a tight shot of J.T. looking at his yardage book (because we simply don\u2019t see enough of golfers poring over their yardage books).\u00a0 Time and time again they went back to the BagCam, and time and time again it was disastrous\u2014the viewer saw nothing of interest but for one moment.\u00a0 The tension was palpable when we got a ground-level look at Bones picking the bag off the ground and walking down the fairway with it.\u00a0 You can imagine my disappointment when Cara Banks failed to interview the headcovers.\u00a0 \u201cAlright, Mr. DeMille, I\u2019m ready for my close-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

While LIV flails about with its \u201cGolf, But Louder\u201d shibboleth that has brought nothing but paltry ratings on its 3rd<\/sup>-tier network, the PGA Tour keeps seeking the low ground with a slogan of its own.\u00a0 \u201cGolf, But Slower.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead of trying to lure viewers with parlor tricks and insipid mid-round interviews, the Tour needs to do something about Thomas and his glacial pace of play.\u00a0 He draws two clubs from the bag for every shot he takes, and then performs the Labors of Hercules before deciding which to hit.\u00a0 Sadly, in a twosome with his good buddy Jordan Spieth, Thomas is the fast player.\u00a0 Spieth plays a round of golf as a fly would take a swim in a bowl of maple syrup.<\/p>\n

The Tour fails to understand that the reason LIV is going down the tubes is because at the end of the day, golf tournaments must attract people who like golf.\u00a0 The bells and whistles can only prop you up for so long, and eventually those who don\u2019t like golf to begin with will move on to other things.\u00a0 The PGA Tour needs to stop trying to be all things to all people, and instead should indulge its base\u2014those that like and follow golf.<\/p>\n

It can certainly be no accident that BagCam was introduced at the Valspar, because between Thomas\u2019 languid pace and Spieth\u2019s dawdle up the leaderboard, the tournament was like watching paint dry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 20, 2023 So the PGA Tour in its unrelenting effort to debase itself and be exactly what it has mocked and decried the past year by imitating LIV Golf\u2019s small field, no-cut tournament structure has now seized on another shiny thing which has already proven to be as dull and uninspired as its walking … Continue reading Lick My BagCam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[650,642,645,646,249,643,635,637,648,644,605,647,651,293,649],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}