The Haney Project: Michael Phelps

[nevets88]

I'd like to see a student actually improve by leaps and bounds. Isn't that what an instruction show should be all about? Not the scenery, the celebrity, the name dropping, the zen master-ish statements, no cult of personality. Just... plain... someone... improving... Sheesh. This show should be called Failed Projects.

[iacas]

Originally Posted by newtogolf

Not much of a project, taking a gifted athlete and trying to teach him to hit a golf ball.  Phelps isn't entertaining out of the water, and Haney is Haney so I see this season being a snooze fest, but I'll probably watch it because I'm a golf addict.

Like I said, there's still a chance things get interesting if Phelps breaks out his bong and Hank starts talking about things he shouldn't talk about. And if he gets the munchies, will he still be afraid to ask for a popsicle?

[mchepp]

Some good points here. I think the recipe of 4 last season was not very interesting and I lost total interest in the season. I watched the first 2 but by the end I could not care who won. Charles Barkley was a such a interesting case, that I think that carried the show, and the golf channel must have thought that we cared about Hank.

I think they should get some new teachers in the show and let some other pros have a shot. Just watching Haney is getting really really boring.

[Harmonious]

It really isn't a golf instruction show.  It's more a personality show.  Or a "watch us drive our golf carts to the next hole" show.  I agree that seeing some hack hit 2 or 3 terrible shorts in a row is boring.  Far better if we could see more of the instruction side of it.

Barkley and Romano were head cases. Limbaugh actually got much better, because he worked hard to follow Haney's instructions.  Leonard also showed a lot of progress.  Levine used just about every curse word, Haney didn't need to give instructions on that.  But so little time was devoted to the instructional side.

[newtogolf]

I agree, Barkley was interesting.  Romano really didn't seem to like Haney or his suggestions and that made it more interesting.  I liked Limbaugh because he really wanted to become a better golfer and believed Haney could help him.  Last season was really bad, the editing and overall production was poor.

Haney is a recognized name and while I don't respect what he did to Tiger, I think they'd have a tough time getting people to watch a unknown teach celebrities how to golf.  I'd also rather watch Haney over Breed, maybe Butch or Foley would be interested.

A new show where they have say 4 golf instructors (maybe with different swing methods) pick 4 people from a pool of non-celebrity golfers (at around the same handicap) and work with them for 6 months where they compete in a tournament at the end might be interesting.

Originally Posted by mchepp

Some good points here. I think the recipe of 4 last season was not very interesting and I lost total interest in the season. I watched the first 2 but by the end I could not care who won. Charles Barkley was a such a interesting case, that I think that carried the show, and the golf channel must have thought that we cared about Hank.

I think they should get some new teachers in the show and let some other pros have a shot. Just watching Haney is getting really really boring.

[Beachcomber]

Originally Posted by iacas

Like I said, there's still a chance things get interesting if Phelps breaks out his bong and Hank starts talking about things he shouldn't talk about. And if he gets the munchies, will he still be afraid to ask for a popsicle?

LOL  Classic!

[AmazingWhacker]

Originally Posted by Clambake

No, the exec producers are Steve Rotfeld and Tom Farrell.   They've done a bunch of other sports-related shows like Sports Disasters, Lighter Side of Sports, Baseball's 101 Funniest Moments, Super Sports Follies, etc.      They seem to specialize with fluffy sports shows and then sell the show to the various sports networks such as TGC.     They also did the Golf in America series for TGC.

Golf In America.  Worst.  Show.  Ever.

[Roblar]

Originally Posted by newtogolf

A new show where they have say 4 golf instructors (maybe with different swing methods) pick 4 people from a pool of non-celebrity golfers (at around the same handicap) and work with them for 6 months where they compete in a tournament at the end might be interesting.

I think this would be awesome. I'm going to go start a thread on this topic instead of taking this thread off-topic.  I'll edit this to add a link if I can.

...and I'd like to see them work with Kelly Slater. (I used to surf.)

[jamo]

Golf In America.  Worst.  Show.  Ever.

Worse than "Pipe Dream?"

[newtogolf]

The show concept was great unfortunately the person that the show was about was so ungrateful and painful to watch that it made it difficult to root for him to succeed.

Originally Posted by jamo

Worse than "Pipe Dream?"

[Divotmaker77]

Originally Posted by newtogolf

I agree, Barkley was interesting.  Romano really didn't seem to like Haney or his suggestions and that made it more interesting.  I liked Limbaugh because he really wanted to become a better golfer and believed Haney could help him.  Last season was really bad, the editing and overall production was poor.

Haney is a recognized name and while I don't respect what he did to Tiger, I think they'd have a tough time getting people to watch a unknown teach celebrities how to golf.  I'd also rather watch Haney over Breed, maybe Butch or Foley would be interested.

A new show where they have say 4 golf instructors (maybe with different swing methods) pick 4 people from a pool of non-celebrity golfers (at around the same handicap) and work with them for 6 months where they compete in a tournament at the end might be interesting.

I think the concept of having different instructors working with non-celebrity golfers and see how they improve is a good one, but the problem is it is not going to generate ratings.

For some  reason, people are more into what celebs do than themselves.  Barkley is one of of the very few out there that is/was so watchable because of the disaster his swing has become.  Other than him, I am more interested in the instruction and actual playing part than watching Hank and his trophy wife sitting on a plane drinking wine and thinking they are important.

My local instructor is just as good as Haney without Tiger on his resume.

[Pakoh]

Originally Posted by iacas

Like I said, there's still a chance things get interesting if Phelps breaks out his bong and Hank starts talking about things he shouldn't talk about. And if he gets the munchies, will he still be afraid to ask for a popsicle?

Yes! they need to smoke copious amounts of marijuana and film that shit!  then it will be entertaining!