Who is LIV Golf trying to appeal to by adding Charles Barkley to the TV broadcast? Dan Patrick said on his radio show on Friday that Barkley would certainly make the broadcasts more entertaining. He isn’t sure that Sir Charles actually makes them better.
Barkley’s appeal to serious golf fans may be limited. If that is who LIV is trying to get to watch, Patrick doesn’t think the much-discussed signing in the right one.
“I like him when it’s gimmicky golf,” the FOX Sports Radio host told the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand, who was a guest on the show.
He cited The Match series on Turner as the ideal way to use Barkley as a golf commentator. It gives Barkley the opportunity to be more of an entertainer than an analyst.
In a broadcast booth, Charles Barkley may not be able to be as loose. Even with LIV Golf going out of its way to create more fun than a typical PGA broadcast does, many fans may feel Barkley is out of place.
That is why Dan Patrick thinks the best way LIV could use Barkley is not to have him in the booth talking about what he is watching.
“I would have him play in every event, he said. “I mean, if you are gonna have fun with him. Have him mic’d up on the course and have him interact with the players, something like that.”
Marchand says it is a good idea and one he doesn’t think is outside the realm of possibility based on his recent conversation with Barkley.
“He did say in his talks with Norman, it was more of a smorgasbord of things. It doesn’t sound like he is going to do straight ahead analysis.”
