As the PGA celebrates a successful Open Championship, it is in the laboratory attempting to create ways to gain the interest of a younger demographic. The tour is looking into alternative golf games to relate with the younger crowd in an attempt to improve sagging television ratings.
The story will be the focus of an upcoming episode of Real Sports with Brian Gumble in which he explores the new games popping up all over the United States. The proposed changes vary from changing the size of the hole to 15 inches, to having a back nine that is stickily a golf/soccer combo as well as a rule that allows for a mulligan on every hole of the course.
Legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus believes that the PGA should look into all types of methods to attract an audience and to shouldn't shy away from gimmicks in the early goings. President of the PGA Tour Ted Bishop shares Nicklaus stance on the way golf is attracting its audience.
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“We’ve got to stop scaring people away from golf by telling them that there is only one way to play the game and it includes these specific guidelines. We’ve got to offer more forms of golf for people to try. We have to do something to get them into the fold, and then maybe they’ll have this idea it’s supposed to be fun.”
Nicklaus will appear on HBO’s Real Sports Tuesday at 10 pm ET to speak about golf’s declining television ratings and the idea that different golf games can improve the sport in the longterm.
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