“If you dare…compete with LIV Golf” Golf Twitter fans mock PGA Tour for pulling off ‘publicity stunts’ only to gain viewership

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Arccos Golf data leader Lou Stagner has suggested a new way for PGA Tour to compete with LIV Golf in order to increase its falling TRPs. Allow a couple of amateurs to play Round 1 and 2 because it could be fun watching young golfers alongside pro ones.

Like it? Well, if recent data and Twitter reactions on Stagner’s post are anything to go by, PGA might need to consider the ideas.

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Some people even suggested that it could be fun watching ladies from the LPGA,

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PGA ratings go down miserably, LIV golf YouTube viewership rises

LIV Golf vs. PGA Tour
LIV Golf vs. PGA Tour

Ratings for PGA Tour’s Sanderson Farms event last weekend might be bad news for the organizers as reports suggest that figures were down 60 percent compared to last year. A Twitter user going by the name ‘Golf Fan’ said this means that PGA currently doesn’t figure even in the top 150 shows in US alone.

Compared to PGA, LIV Golf ratings on YouTube are up as ever with at least 115,000 average real-time views each time an event is live streamed. Although LIV doesn’t currently have a TV deal in the US, Fox is already said to have contacted them for negotiations.

“TV Ratings for Sanderson Farms last weekend are a disaster for the #PGATour. They are so bad that they don’t show up in the top 150 shows! Even assuming a generous 100K viewers, that is -60% down from same time last year. PGAT can’t keep up with #LIVGolf if this is the trend,” @GolfFan2155 wrote on the microblogging website.

PGA Tour is also set to implement a new rule from 2023 with commissioner Jay Monahan promising to provide $500,000 to all golfers who hold the PGA Tour card. This sum is not a salary, nor is it part of prize money. On the contrary, it will be simple base pay — meaning that it is pledged.

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