I think that may just be reserved for food travel. That market is waaaaaaaay oversaturated, because everybody wants to be the next Anthony Bourdain. I imagine if someone picked up a travel golf series on cable TV, and did it right, it would be wildly popular. The ‘doing it right’ thing is the hard part, though.
Wildly popular in golf circles? Maybe. Wildly popular for an extended amount of the population? Doubtful.
The thing about food is that everyone eats. Meanwhile only 10% of the American population golfs. (roughly).
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@djpie as said above, great work. And shoutout to @Cody and @sundaybag. Easy to forget the guys behind the camera while everyone else is enjoying a fabulous Swedish meal, but well done.
I really liked how much this focused on the town and culture more than the golf. Crazy to say that about a golf travel show, but I honestly thought the last few seasons were trending towards too much golf and not enough of the extras. Again, weird to say about a golf show, but like Refuge meetups, a lot of times the golf isn’t the highlight of the day. It’s the comradery and hangs around the golf. Love getting to see that in a different country and different setting.
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As produced by the usual suspects, absolutely not. The independence and vision NLU has to make what they want to make how they want to make it is the secret sauce. Take this anywhere near a media conglomerate and it’s not possible.
They intentionally don’t want to do a “Top 10 Courses in _____” type series. If they did, it would still be 1000x better than anything NBC Universal could ever hope to produce.
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I thought in previous content, they did focus too much on golf, but I was still having trouble getting a feel for some of the courses they played. I think this comes down to the more fast paced editing they used, and trying to get more content into a smaller space to keep video times down. I think this is the longest tourist sauce ep yet, and even though they spent more time than ever on extraneous stuff, they really gave the course time to show off, for lack of a better phrase. I feel like I have a better sense of Stockholm Golffklubb than any other course they have been to that I didn’t otherwise already know.
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Yeah, last night as I was watching the video I didn’t even realize how long it was. It got to the bit with Jacob Sjoman and I had a feeling we were getting towards the end, and looked down and realized it had been close to 40 minutes since the start of the episode.
Really enjoyed how much golf and city we got, and the length of the video really let each portion breathe.
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When did @Soly start editing these episodes?
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The Bourdain comparisons continue to ring so true for me, and like Tony, the boys have upped their games with each successive series and have now reached the Parts Unknown phase in terms of quality. Unlike Tony, they also get to do this with their best friends and don’t have to spend 250 days/year on the road and 365 days/year as celebrities, which is a lot more sustainable. I don’t know why I ever doubted that Scandinavia would work for a golf travel series, but the way they are making it work really opens up so many possibilities for the future.
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The gorillia marketing here is insane!!
Sorry, Laz
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I was 70% sure they were looking for Alfredo Aceves, so glad Soly pulled Alfonseca, because I would have been forced to Google it to sleep, myself.
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Golf is the excuse to go great places
Love all the Bourdain stuff as Food was the excuse to go everywhere
what a fun boondoggle
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Yeah, that was Matt Ginella too who - and this can go into the Firepit thread - isn’t a guy who I necessarily believe is being super honest with me instead of just being a host and promoting whatever he’s being paid to promote.
I would eat up any golf travel shows, even ones that were somewhat paid advertising, if they could just be a BIT more subtle about it. And show enough golf to make me want to actually go and play there.
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Tourist Sauce is the golf version of “Somebody Feed Phil”
Happy, casual, tells stories, focuses primarily on people and not products or places.
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I think that comes down to who is paying for the advertising. If it is Dream Golf is footing the bill, then the product will probably wind up being good if the content creators are good.
If the RTJ trail in Alabama is footing the bill, then, well… you can cancel Christmas.
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If you want to see somebody carrying water for his “favorite” resorts and local convention and visitors bureaus, let me introduce you to Bill Hobson of Michigan Golf Live. @theclv24
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Yep…I don’t know if he was that way because he wanted to be or if it was because GC told him he had to. Probably both.
I remember before there was a Top Gear USA someone asked Jay Leno about it. He said it would never work here because they would have to have sponsors they would have to keep happy. So they couldn’t be objective and honest in their reviews. I think the same thing about a golf travel show. The only way it would work is if it’s a Netflix/Amazon Prime type show with the freedom to do what they want. As soon as you have people in corporate offices making decisions that involve more than just making the best product, things are over. As great as it would be for the guys to cash in with a big network deal, I selfishly hope it doesn’t happen.
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Bad Daddy Dustoff watched the premiere a couple hours ago and loved it. Well done boys. Can’t wait until next week.
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