Golfers and F1 Drivers to Compete in Las Vegas Movie star Golf Tourney: Report
A star golf match pitting PGA Tour stars towards Components 1 drivers is within the playing cards for Las Vegas, in keeping with a Wall Road Journal report. Netflix is at the moment planning to provide and livestream the competitors.
Golf cart drag racing is a technique the sports activities of golf and auto racing have collided prior to now. Later this yr, Netflix will discover one other method when it produces and livestreams a celeb Las Vegas golf match that includes Components 1 drivers. (Picture: stenten.com)
No date or location for the occasion has been introduced. Nonetheless, someday between October 16 and Nov. 15, 2023, is probably going, since golf’s all-stars will already be on the town for the annual Shriners Kids’s Open at TPC Summerlin from October 9-15, and Components 1 drivers will already be on the town for the Las Vegas Grand Prix from November 16-18.
The tourney will characteristic celebs from “Components 1 Drive to Survive” and “Full Swing,” two current Netflix sports activities documentaries that took viewers behind the scenes of racing and golf. The published could be Netflix’s first foray into sports activities livestreaming.
Present Netflix the Cash
Organizing its personal occasion would imply that Netflix would save on the billions typically required to license a big-league sports activities bundle.
“We aren’t anti-sports, we’re pro-profit,” Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos advised the WSJ, admitting that his firm hasn’t but found out tips on how to bid for skilled sports activities rights in a method that retains Netflix worthwhile.
Final yr, Netflix misplaced out to ESPN for the livestreaming rights to Components 1 racing for the subsequent three years. Netflix additionally bid or thought of bidding on the rights to livestream tennis and biking occasions, the WSJ reported.
Netflix first dipped its toes into livestreaming this yr, with a Chris Rock comedy particular and a particular reunion episode of the “Love is Blind” actuality TV sequence. The latter experiment didn’t go too effectively, nonetheless. Viewers skilled a programming outage of greater than an hour that prompted an apology from Netflix and a choice to rerelease the occasion the next day.
