Rory McIlroy feels golf’s appeal diminished by ‘too many’ events
Rory McIlroy feels golf’s appeal diminished by ‘too many’ events
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Rory McIlroy feels golf’s appeal has already been “diminished” by the increased options available to fans over different formats and believes the current PGA Tour schedule puts on “too many” events. As well as the Saudi-funded breakaway LIV Golf circuit, the influence of YouTube golf continues to rise.
McIlroy himself helped set up the indoor Tomorrow Golf League alongside Tiger Woods, in which the action is played out on two highly sophisticated golf simulators. World number three McIlroy will be back out on the course for his 2025 PGA Tour season debut at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in Pebble Beach, but accepts there now are plenty of other ways for fans to get their golf fix.
“I think it already has been diminished,” McIlroy said. “I can see when the golf consumer might get a little fatigued of everything that’s sort of available to them. “So to scale it back a little bit and maybe have a little more scarcity in some of the stuff that we do, like the NFL, I think might not be a bad thing. I think 47 or 50 tournaments a year is definitely too many.”.
McIlroy, though, does not feel the sport should stray too far from its core values. “There is a lot of things about golf that are very different than other sports, but I think that is what makes it unique,” McIlroy told a press conference. “I don’t think we should try to dumb down golf to appeal to more people. Golf is golf at the end of the day. It has been this way for hundreds of years.
