Farmingdale, NY – You have to admit it, the Buildout is impressive.
When the drones sail over the oak trees at Bethpage Black, the immeasurability of what a ryder cup cup is Comes full view. What is not green is white, red and just huge. Hospitality tents and grandstands shoot up. It is also absolutely necessary if the PGA of America wants to do well against the 30, 40 or 50 thousand that appear every day.
Increased security and police – presence will be a story of the week. Unmanageable fans can become a different one. There is no event in Golf like this, and you will have no problem finding it. Your Instagram feed is packed with 1st Tee videos before you crack an egg for breakfast.
But there is an interesting question that hangs over all those modern, large sporting event flavor: what is more important for the Ryder Cup – the size or his soul?
We have asked our sports leaders and administrative variations of that question for years. FIFA’s World Cup immediately comes to mind, because the competition has almost doubled in size for next year … while he has committed himself to the Sport-Dronk-Neigheless Saudi Arabia for 2034. (You could easily see the Saudi Pif as a worldwide sponsor of the Ryder Cup in one day.)
For the time being, Saudi money will be spent on advertising this week, in Long Island Rail Road reasons with wave disease to Bethpage.
“If Team Golf is your thing,” the advertisement is. “You will love our thing.”
If creative marketers have a decent budget and have golfers in mind, they spend this week. The People’s Plaza on site is filled with five activations for Imbibing. There is a Michelob Ultra tent in addition to the golf club of Tito (Vodka), in addition to the Elia Craig Speakeasy, across the Rum’s recree of the Gosling and the non-ZO-CREATEATIVE ‘Wijnlounge’ of the Rum van Gosling and William Hill. (Fortunately, the Gatorade Hydratation Station is just around the corner.)
It is 27 miles when the golf ball of that People’s Plaza flies to Rockefeller Plaza, in the heart of Manhattan, which changes “Ryder Cup Live” on Thursday and draws attention to the event until the weekend. On Tuesday morning the speakers and chairs and plates were still set up, but there is already a BMW -Sedan in place for Captain Keegan – the 7 – and another BAMER that parked for Captain Luke, the i7. Scan the QR code to find out more while you look at the wave on the big screen and look up at 30 rock.
Almost every incoming e -mail in recent weeks has cut a new corner of the cup through a different brand. Five iron debuts this week at his latest location in New York. A gambling company is the newest analysis of his supercomputer to hawks, which Team USA has a 57 percent chance to win. The newest e -mail arrived on Tuesday afternoon: Good Good Golf will collaborate with the new show, “Breakfast at Bethpage”, produced by Omaha Studios and Pro Shop Studios, leading blindfolded well competitions and other challenges during the morning of the event.
And do you know what, skeptics? People will look. (Ed. Note: A new activation email arrived in the writing of this article, for a Skratch event on Friday in the city, with the latest technology and products from Hyperice.).
But is it all necessary? Is bigger always us in a direction of better moving? In the era of the empowerment of players, immense ratings of TV rights, $ 750 tickets and a rapidly decreasing number of locations that the cup can be organized – we cannot be so sure. (Often left behind: is this what Seve Ballesteros, Sam Ryder, Arnold Palmer, et al
Just like timepiece, every Ryder Cup is somehow larger than the previous one. Every bit of novelty feels special and normally two years later. This year’s ticket prices were higher than ever, and drastically more than Rome in 2023. Rome was the first time that the event was played in Italy, on a golf course (and the surrounding neighborhood) exactly. The Build-Out of the Hospitality 2021 at Whistling Straits-during a Covid-Impact event, no less the France Ryder Cup 2018 was shining out. But the 1st Tee stands in the French countryside made the 1st T -shirt in Hazeltine seem infantile. There is a suitable memory below.
As exciting as this 2025 cup has been in the run-up, countless players and their teams have applied a soft fatigue in what could come this week, and that was before President Trump decided to attend. After months of ominous ‘we see,’ Rory McIlroy said it out loud The guardian:
“I think it is inevitable that something will happen in New York,” said McIlroy. “It may not involve me, but it is inevitable that something will happen, whether it is the last time in Rome or something else.”
It is clearly logical. The larger the crowd, the easier it is to mix in the noise. The more expensive the ticket, the more entitled one can feel to exceed a theoretical line. Who pulls the line? Who really knows! But this train does not seem to slow much, especially since the cup to the largest cities will remain around the world, exclusively where the government has agreed to subsidize the procedure.
It took years before the DP World Tour Barcelona chose as a host for the 2031 Cup … coincidentally as soon as the local government of Catalonia was fully committed to financing part of the costs. But it requires all kinds of transport changes in the area, not to mention real, physical changes in the golf course. In the same way, no city is able to organize the Olympic Games without tearing down things, moving them and building them again, there is an extremely short list of courses that the PGA and DPWT Ryder Cup would consider ready. So let the bid start! And fully accept the results with competitive parties London campaign to host in 2035. Just don’t expect much attachment to the course, which may not even exist yet.
If it feels strange to worry so much about Ryder Cups in the 1920s, it may be because this growth has been quite linear. And how much more space is there to grow? The 1980s marked the potential of this event in competitiveness and were abruptly capitalized in the 1990s. It was only 1999, when the American captain Ben Crenshaw begged Tiger Woods and others to establish their desires for a form of compensation.
“It’s not greed,” Said Woods then. “It is the fact that we want to help. We want to donate money to our charities in our local areas. So much money is generated at the Ryder Cup, it has become a business event.”
That quote this week plays a greater role than normal if: 1) it was rather prophetic; And 2) American players have finally seen their compensation “to 2025”, as Captain Bradley said. Every American player and captain earns $ 300,000 from charities of their choice, as well as a stipend of $ 200,000 to do with what they want … for the first time.
The problem is a real Rorschach test for anyone who cares about this event. It is a pretty thin argument that the cup should continue to grow in eternity, and not In addition to the players, also directly for an increasing pace. It is also quite reasonable (and simple!) To see how money has completely deposited every corner of this sport in recent years. Keeping one of the most cherished events greedy -free can feel good for all involved. (Or most From everyone.) It will be difficult to tell the hard -working fathers of the Twin Cities that the Family Vacation Fund looks a bit lighter in 2029 if he wants to bring everyone to Hazeltine. It is also quite difficult to tell the PGA of America Accountants to relax when they just reached their goal to sell performed metro club packages of $ 10,000 a day to the type of people who want to arrive via a helicopter.
All that together is pureed where we are with the Ryder Cup. We can enjoy it in the coming days, but not without wondering where it is going.
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