The PGA Tour’s Fan Forward poll aims to get some feedback from fans on solutions to fix the TV product.
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We bring you this news with care — and with hope – my golf watchers of the world.
You can also make your voice heard in the fight to improve golf on television.
We bring this news to you with caution, not because we consider it unimportant – but rather because we choose to be optimistic. Could this be the first step toward the best news golf watchers have received in years?
For the first time in recent memory, you can provide feedback on the state of golf broadcasts live on the PGA Tour. And for the first time maybe ever, it’s the PGA Tour asking to get it – and taking into account your changes, in real time.
The survey is not new. At least not technically. The PGA Tour”Fan ForwardThe program has been around since mid-summer, when tour commissioner Jay Monahan first floated plans for a fan survey to provide feedback on the PGA Tour product.
At first, the program appeared to be the latest in a line of fan-focused efforts by the PGA Tour; The pursuits taken to show the golf audience were not FULLY forgotten in broader discussions about the future state of golf. But in recent months those changes have taken on a new form, with the Tour and its partners committing to a new, TV-focused “pilot program” for the PGA Tour’s fall season aimed at hearing just those changes. .
The new program, as we wrote in the past here at Hot microphoneplans to test several new Tour TV innovations in the coming months, including expanding on-course interviews, revamping the Friday afternoon telecast and a sharper focus on live golf television segments that appeal to fans . But it is also aims to gain real-time fan feedback, assessing the state of the tournament’s telecasts and its innovation efforts as they are being tested.
While it remains unclear exactly how this data will help the PGA Tour serve its audience — right now the survey is just that, a survey – The tour’s wider following in its Friday night television experiments should not be overlooked. For the first time in recent memory, the Tour is addressing its streaming issues head-on and undertaking action research in the public eye to fix them.
The biggest change golf fans want—less advertising—remains a pipe dream for the foreseeable future. The tournament is locked in media rights deals until the end of the decade that require a certain number of commercial breaks per round of the tournament. But the broader changes remain up for debate, things like ad packaging and golf TV positioning.
Fans who wish to participate in this survey can follow the link here. Happy hunting!
