Will pro golf become just like pro tennis?

Who cares about pro tennis these days, at least the men anyway? There's not really anyone out there with much personality. The players seem to all look the same. And the game has changed - huge serves with one or no volley. Not too exciting, at least that's what we've got to assume looking at the falling audience figures for the last 10 years.

It's not hard to imagine that golf could go the same way. Yesterday I talked about there being very little for the audience to chew on outside of the actual play itself. And pro golfers have always looked pretty much the same. With Payne Stewart gone and Jesper's game down a couple of notches and Lee off to the Champions tour, where's the color anymore.

And the game of golf is looking suspiciously like tennis. Too often it's big booming drives and a wedge into the green. Pros in the US don't even have to work the ball that much. Where'd the 2-6 irons go? No more volleying, very little rushing the net. It's all straight face, straight shots and bigger bodies. Like pro basketball a lot of people don't watch the whole game, they are tuning in only for the last nine holes on Sunday.

Pro golfers, you'd better start seeing the big picture. Golf is a lot more than hitting shots. Perhaps more than any other game, it comes closest to imitating life. And right now the life is being sucked out of it.