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Once strength and physical conditioning became more important in pro golf, I found the LPGA to be more watchable than the PGA. I think it's because I can actually take more away from the way those ladies swing and the strategies they use (bomb it over all the trouble is not an option for them).

It's not the draw for them, just like it's not the draw for golf. People who haven't played golf hate watching it on TV. The PGA support for The First Tee and other beginner-level programs, that's their part in the draw. That and the charities they support, their foundations, player...

Designed for all levels, yes, but set up for the audience you want. Most of the time courses are designed for all levels or some subset of levels. There are many courses I won't take my daughter to, because they are too hard for her to enjoy. I myself enjoy any course as long as it's not set...

That's what it will take to make the sport popular. That's what it took in golf - a whole generation willing to work for nothing but the sport itself. Think Bobby Jones and his generation made any money (other than gambling) at golf? Still, would golf be watchable if every hole on every...

Oh, Moneymaker's influence was mainly on amateurs entering pro events, largely inflating the purses, thus making the events big enough that more of the boring play could be edited out. Participation in home games, etc. has always been there, at least as long as I've been alive. But the...

Even the grandma who never picked up a cue in her life? How do you plan to do that? She doesn't even know what a race to 5 or a loser's side is. Your product is designed to attract pros, semi-pros and shortstops, those who think they have any chance to get through one of these qualifiers, yet...

Poker didn't become become popular on TV until Chris Moneymaker showed an amateur can win it all and online poker became popular. Oh, and the hole cam was invented (watching a live tournament on the rail is as boring as it gets, because you don't know the hole cards and the boring play is...

Sure, they profit from their support, but that's why they provide funding and equipment to keep programs running. Marketing dollars are spent from the top down in the hopes of a return on that money and to provide a steady stream of talent coming in. These programs also have fees associated...

I'm not forgetting anything. The numbers I posted are from info stated in the original post, which says nothing about the field in the final event being 128. All it says is the qualifiers should generate $200,000. Anyway, if you want to play in a tournament where the strong half of the field...

The first thing anyone should do when reading this is the math. 32 players at $150 each is $4800 in entry fees. Divide $200,000 by the number of qualifier events (64) and you get $3,125 per event into that prize purse, not $1,000 as you're led to believe, leaving $1,675 to pay prizes and...

I bet it lasts longer than most. When people play in a tournament like that they're already planning to spend their money there and this just gives them something to enjoy while they're spending their money, a reason to choose that place over the one down the street. The owner doesn't want the...

And the benefactor is usually kids, or cancer, or some other charity. That's what draws in the major corporations, the tax deduction and bump to their image. I'm sure there's side betting behind the scenes (in fact I know it) but it's not advertised and if word gets out the pro tour sanctions...

I don't think we disagree at all. No matter what the approach, grass roots or top down, it starts with a cleaner image for the sport, to make it more attractive to parents and corporations. That takes everyone, and it takes a long time - a lifetime or more. Don't get me wrong - there has been...

I'm not going to deny that the big leagues exist for profit (and only one is major, the others are tiny in comparison). I wouldn't do it if there was no profit in it, because there's too much headache and undesirable work in it, for which one needs to be paid. Yet, if you look at the sport in...

You could be onto something here. A pool hall where I used to play had brown pocket leather and windows that cast a slight shadow across the table, just enough to shade a small part of the brown pocket black. In my peripheral vision, it made center-pocket look like it was moved slightly to one...

To really grow the sport at the top level, you only need one thing. You need a generation or two of people willing to do it for free or at a loss, or someone with deep enough pockets to fund such a loss. Every sport, including major sports, have endured decades of loss before their sport...

Only League Operators or the APA themselves can legally get them new. We usually don't sell new ones, give them away like beer distributors do. Used, second or third hand, probably lots of places. New ones are very expensive because of shipping. It can be more than the light itself.

What about those who don't attend social events while carrying an infectious disease? Do they get to play that card? If they do, then APA has to withhold the name. If nobody gets to play that card, ok. Put the name on a list and that's that. But that should happen earlier in the process...

If you don't care, why do you expect to know? Are you saying you don't care where that info comes from? To some people that's very important, and as a business or third party you have to respect their wishes. I suppose that policy will change when some jury awards damages because some third...

So how did the APA find out she had it in the first place? Through contact tracing. Then Jane changes her mind and does some things that might or might not involve APA members who might or might not have been notified by APA. The only way to protect everyone who knows Jane from Jane if she...