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Jun 10, 2014; Pinehurst, NC, USA; Phil Mickelson (center) walks with his practice group down the 4th fairway prior to the start of the 114th U.S. Open at Course No. 2 at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club. Mandatory Credit: Jason Getz-USA TODAY Sports

Watch Every Golfer on Every Hole

The PGA Tour needs to implement a subscription based product that gives fans access to watch any golfer/group they want

We live in an era where you can watch basically anything you want at anytime on any device. You can be in Philadelphia and watch the Los Angeles Dodgers take on the San Francisco Giants.

You can be in Los Angeles and watch the Green Bay Packers take on the Minnesota Vikings. Even if you don’t have proper access to some games, there are still ways to watch the game you want to watch.

On a global scale, if you live in the United States and want to watch Rugby in Australia, you can do that. If you live in Germany and watch an NHL game, you can do that too.

That’s just the kind of world we live in now. So, why is it that during a tournament we can’t watch whatever golfer we want to watch? Why are golf fans at the mercy of whatever the network executives want to show?

I’ll give you an example of what I’m talking about. Major Championships are the biggest events in golf. So can you imagine how frustrating it might be if only a handful of golfers got air time? It would suck and dampen the experience.

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Classic TV Sports charted all the shots taken that were shown by CBS for the final round at the PGA Championship. They showed basically every shot taken by Jordan Spieth and Jason Day, which is perfectly fine. But, that’s basically all they showed!

Brooks Koepka and Tony Finau got a combined six shots shown on CBS. Six! Two of the most exciting young Americans in golf today that finished T-5 and T-10, respectively and they virtually got no air time.

Did you see how well Robert Streb played on Sunday? No? Well, that’s okay because nobody did. That’s because CBS showed exactly zero shots of Streb.

This leads me to my point that golf fans don’t deserve this. Golf fans should have access to watch any golfer/group that they want. You want to watch Brendon de Jonge tee off on the 8th hole? Go ahead and do it. You want to watch Matt Every try to sink his 15 foot putt for double bogey on 14? You can do that too.

It should be simple enough to implement. Just set up some cameras on every hole and fans can go to whatever website and click a group and presto they are watching whatever group/golfers they want.

The PGA can even charge for the product, I don’t care. $9.99 a month seems fair enough. Just give fans a chance to actually watch the game they love and the players they want to follow.

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