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Sports Central
March 24, 2010
Ryan Ballengee |
Tiger, IMG, and PGA Tour: The Battle For Pro Golf in the U.S. The future business model of golf depends on the ability for tours to deliver events with star-studded fields.   |
Sports Central
March 11, 2005
Ryan Ballengee |
How to Improve the Golf Season Focusing more on choice players and shortening the golf season will attract more viewers, benefiting golfers, networks and charities. |
Sports Central
November 30, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
The European Tour's Global Impact The Dubai World Championship, played in November each year, will be the richest tournament in professional golf history. |
Sports Central
February 27, 2008
Ryan Ballengee |
Golf's Version of Pros vs. Joes The supposed difference between players on the professional tours and Sunday hackers is talent. But that is not the reality of the game of golf today. |
Sports Central
January 23, 2008
Ryan Ballengee |
Race and Golf: Let the Discussion Begin Evidence seems to indicate that African-American people are only a small part of the game of golf, and that even Tiger Woods does not even appear to be helping the issue. |
Sports Central
March 6, 2009
Ryan Ballengee |
American Golfing Dominance Over? In very short order, the faces of golf have gotten a lot younger and a lot less American. |
Sports Central
May 29, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
The PGA's Head-Scratching Scheduling The PGA Tour is making decisions that negatively impact some of their best events. |
BusinessWeek
December 13, 2004
Dean Foust |
How to Keep Duffers on the Fairway Unless golf changes its rules and marketing, it risks a steady drain of players. The number of rounds played by all golfers has declined, and equipment makers are struggling. Snazzy new clubs are just part of the only answer. |
Sports Central
August 29, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
FedEx Cup: We Can Rebuild It A list of ideas to improve the PGA Tour and FedEx Cup. |
Sports Central
May 26, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Why the PGA's FedEx Cup is Empty The more I find out about how the FedEx Cup is shaping up, the more discouraged I become about the potential value of this series. |
Sports Central
August 29, 2005
Ryan Ballengee |
How Golf Can Attract New Players There needs to be a comprehensive strategy to encourage golfers through the learning curve -- something along the lines of "The First Tee," but for adults. |
Sports Central
April 18, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Golf Technology: Myths, Reality, and Answers What is valued more in golf - technological advancement or the grand tradition that makes this game special? |
Sports Central
March 3, 2005
Kevin Beane |
The Triumphant Return of Jaidee Why the European Tour runs as good a golf organization as the PGA, and for far less money. |
Sports Central
July 16, 2008
Ryan Ballengee |
Why Golf Needs an All-Star Game Golf needs an experience for fans that largely serves as a commercial for the sport and provides fans with a new level of intimacy with the game. |
BusinessWeek
October 31, 2005
Dean Foust |
The PGA Tour: Sand Trap Ahead As it negotiates new TV deals, the Tour finds itself in a weakened position. |
Sports Central
November 11, 2004
Kevin Beane |
The Rainy Forecast of American Golf The PGA Tour season has anticlimactically come to an end, goes the conventional wisdom ... and here we have yet another case where conventional wisdom is wrong. |
Sports Central
January 25, 2010
Ryan Ballengee |
The Inconvenient Ruse of the Independent Contractor There is not a single player inside of the top 35 of the Official World Golf Rankings at the Bob Hope Classic this week. |
Sports Central
May 6, 2009
Ryan Ballengee |
Ranking the PGA Tour Schedule It has become clear that the PGA Tour is considering the development of a policy that will try to compel its membership -- primarily its best players -- to play in more events with a wider variety. |
Sports Central
February 1, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Stop the Insanity! The "whack and chip" approach is ruining golf. |
Sports Central
December 1, 2005
Ryan Ballengee |
Superstar Hypocrisy on the Tour It is hypocritical to cry out that the PGA Tour season is way too long, but then go ahead and play several more events well after the schedule ends. |
Sports Central
February 1, 2011
Corrie Trouw |
A Tour Held Hostage Now more than ever, the PGA Tour needs a successful Tiger Woods. |
Sports Central
August 31, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Golf and Doping: A Real Possibility The PGA Tour must pilot a drug testing program in 2007 and create a full program for the 2008 season. |
Sports Illustrated
November 28, 2000
Alan Shipnuck |
Extrapolation Nation Instead of talking about overtaking the NFL, the Tour needs to get serious... |
Sports Central
December 7, 2009
Ryan Ballengee |
Tigermania 2.0: How This All Will Help Golf Because of Tiger Woods' accident, rumor mill, and subsequent confession, golf has never had more eyes even indirectly affixed on it. |
Sports Central
December 2, 2004
Ryan Ballengee |
The Year That Was in Golf This past golf season was rather anticlimactic on all of the major Tours. |
Sports Illustrated
August 28, 2000
Jaime Diaz |
Chat Reel: SI's Jaime Diaz If I were god of golf ... |
Sports Central
October 23, 2004
Ryan Ballengee |
King of the Links: How to Make Golf Exciting Even as a golf fan and commentator, I find the last few months of the golfing season to be incredibly tedious |
Fast Company
March 2014 |
How Golf Scored a Hole in One With China With the markets in the U.S. and Europe almost completely saturated, China represents golf's biggest growth opportunity |
Sports Central
November 21, 2009
Ryan Ballengee |
Trump Headlining a Golf Tour a Bad Idea If Trump were to try to challenge the LPGA Tour and build his own women's tour, he would be much more prudent and learn lessons from the U.S. Pro Golf Tour. |
Fast Company
April 2009
Kate Rockwood |
The Business of Golf A look at the business behind this centuries-old sport. |
Sports Central
December 30, 2015
Marc James |
Why the LPGA Deserves Better Professional golf is one of America's most popular sports, and while men and women do both, women's professional golf must still fight for legitimacy, attention, and dollars most of the time. |
Sports Central
February 3, 2009
Ryan Ballengee |
Compromise is Inevitable For PGA Tour While PGA Tour sponsorship is not a $50 million proposition, it is a multi-million dollar proposition. That is the kind of expenditure that draws a critical eye if exposed to the public. |
Sports Central
December 31, 2008
Ryan Ballengee |
How to Make Golf Sponsorship Work The first real gap on the PGA Tour schedule in several years has caused the media community to go on the offensive about the Tour's woes. |
Sports Central
January 18, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
FedEx Cup: Delivering Results? In the eyes of the creators of the golf FedEx Cup, the Mercedes-Benz Championship and Sony Open are basically worth the same in FedEx points. Why? |
Sports Central
May 16, 2005
Vincent Musco |
A Look at Golf's Next Five Most followers of the PGA Tour can easily name the top five players in the world, but who can identify players ranked 6 to 10? Here's a look at golf's Next Five. |
Sports Central
July 12, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Who Were the Ad Wizards? The Western Open is officially dead. |
Home Toys
December 2004
Brandon Hetherington |
The QMotions-Golf Indoor Golf Simulator Instead of using the Mouse for controlling golf swings, The QMotions-Golf Indoor Golf Simulator uses patented electronic technology to recognize swing speed and measure club head directional impact to translate actual golf swings. |
Sports Illustrated
February 1, 2001
Gary Van Sickle |
Too many signs Autographs are meaningless and pointless -- and now, sadly, all about the money. A celebrity signs a card or a program, and 10 minutes later that item is up for bid on eBay or for sale in some collector's shop in the mall. If I was a celebrity -- say, Woods -- I'd simply say, No autographs... |
Sports Central
March 26, 2007
Ryan Ballengee |
A Tale of Two Tours The new AT&T National golf invitational tournament creates solutions and problems. |
ifeminists
May 20, 2003
Kirsten Tynan |
Let Sorenstam Play Unlike Martha Burk, Sorenstam has not tried to force her way into the company of male golfers. She has merely accepted one of many invitations extended to her by tournaments who would all be more than happy to benefit from the excitement and publicity she would bring. |
Sports Central
March 31, 2008
Ryan Ballengee |
The Case For Groove Regulation There has been some suggestion that the USGA may not necessarily have to enact its proposed groove changes that we are still yet to have a final decision on from the governing bodies. |
BusinessWeek
April 30, 2010
Helyar & Helm |
Forget Tiger. The PGA Has Bigger Problems Professional golf's period of rapid growth from 1996 to 2008, when prize money grew fourfold to $278 million a year, is over. |
Sports Illustrated
June 1, 2000
Gary Van Sickle |
Golf questions Prepping for a major... Cypress Point... The PGA Championship... etc. |
Sports Central
November 2, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
Showing Something Els Ernie Els is an incredibly talented golfer, a gentle giant of a human being, has the perfect attitude for this sport. He also has something that a lot of the Tour's elite seem to lack at times -- heart. |
Sports Central
August 2, 2007
Jeff Levers |
LPGA Homecoming: Ricoh's British Open St. Andrews, over 500-years-old and considered to be the birthplace of golf, hosts its first professional tournament for women. |
Sports Illustrated
July 15, 2002
Gary Van Sickle |
10 things to think about This week's Big Ten, a collection of random thoughts, observations and road rage about golf. |
Sports Central
January 7, 2006
Ryan Ballengee |
PGA Tour Already in Trouble? There are some noticeable absences this week that diminish the quality of the PGA season opener. |
Sports Illustrated
November 16, 2000
Gary Van Sickle |
No more real golf Let's all just scratch Valderrama off our scorecards, shall we? As the recent WGC American Express Championship proved, it's not a great golf course. The 17th hole, where balls keep rolling off the green into the lake, is a travesty. That green really does belong on a miniature-golf course... |
AskMen.com
August 27, 2001
Chris Wong |
Being Careful Of Slow Play Golf is a sport that is meant to be played at an enjoyable yet steady pace. Unfortunately, as golf is exposed to more and more people, a crunch has been put on golf courses, and the pace of play has slowed... |
Sports Central
July 11, 2004
Kevin Beane |
Who's Really the Best? Lots of guys are winners on the PGA Tour, and it becomes increasingly difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff in the world of golf. |
