The Golf opportunity to join Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in Las Vegas in a Private duel for nine million dollars. The criticism of the combat is great, not even the colleagues want to watch.
Nine million US dollars as prize money for the victory in a Golf fight? This is also for the Sport of the better-off and Wealthy an exceptionally large stock exchange. Nevertheless, the duel of the Top two golfers Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, which takes place this Friday at the Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas, it is this astronomical sum.
However, it is questionable whether the sporting value will be, after all, both Woods as well as Mickelson have exceeded their power Zenith. The 42-year-old Woods has won eleven years ago, his last Major tournament, had to fight in the last few years, with numerous violations, and made rather with scandals and gaffes on and off the Golf course headlines. Mickelson (48) has at least five years ago, once again, one of the four major Golf tournaments in the world to win the US Open 2013. At the Ryder Cup at the end of September in Paris, they were not able to keep up law and have been partially presented by the opponents.
Formerly enemies, now friends
You’ve come a long way: Phil Mickelson (l.) and Tiger Woods (R) with the Ryder Cup in 1997
Their charm attracts the meeting, which will be staged from a U.S. Pay-TV channel, rather to the fact that the two rivals for a long time were public displays of hatred, love, used As the alpha animals of the game of Golf in the decade after the turn of the Millennium, earlier out of the way. But this rivalry is just like the sporting exception – today in history. Woods and Mickelson together to complete even a training round. How silly you even find the staging of the “The Match” highly stylized duel, basically, it was clear, than you should look at the official press conference like two heavy-weight boxers-deep in the eyes. They held it for a short time, broke out in a hearty Laugh.
Criticism and shrug of the shoulders in the Golf scene
“To be quite honest, if you had done it 15 years ago, it would have been great. But nowadays, it shoots over the target,” said the four-time Major Champion Rory McIlroy. Just like other world-class golfers he sees the blown-up millions-duel of the two favorites critical. The Northern Irishman announced that he would not turn on. Also, Justin Thomas, last may is still number one in the world rankings, is “The Match” not a Dollar value, and certainly not the $ 19.99 that you would have to Pay-Per-View spend. “The Chance that I’ll order, tends to zero. I’m going to watch football,” Thomas wrote on 6.October, in a question and answer session on Twitter.
“15 years ago it would have been great” – Rory McIlroy does not think much about the duel of the two favorites
That should see the majority of Golf fans in that way, the emitting channel “Turner Sports”. As the two battle for Everything or Nothing, the loser gets nothing – worthwhile, you have to pay a couple of million viewers and turn it on. To make the Whole more interesting, Woods and Mickelson to be on the court with microphones. “Since the duel in the pay-TV will be shown, there are no ad breaks, and viewers get all the interesting stuff that we will tell between the blows so,” he tried to Mickelson to stir up the interest.
Just an expensive air number?
Much more than a few, some teasing does occur or one or the other bet, the TV will probably not get to listen to viewers. With the place only the TV people, volunteers, sponsors and celebrities are allowed to anyway.
So, the fear is that the duel between the current number 13 in the world (Woods) against the number 27 (Mickelson) is for the large number of air. May be similar to the “century fight” in Boxing between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, of the promised three and half years ago and held – by the way, also in Las Vegas. After all, the two Golf Stars have promised a part of the “ridiculously high price of money” as Mickelson called himself, to donate, to the decadence-criticism can take the Wind out of the sails.