Golf Channel has canceled its Massive Break reboot together with Good Good Golf.
Good Good has been enveloped in controversy since August 21 when it posted an commercial for its new driver collaboration with Callaway that depicted Good Good’s Garrett Clark shoving a lady to the bottom. The video drew widespread backlash from golf followers and social media at massive, prompting Golf Galaxy, amongst different shops, to drag the model’s merchandise from its retail platforms. Callaway additionally reduce ties with Good Good on Thursday morning.
Golf Galaxy was the presenting sponsor of the primary season of Massive Break x Good Good, which was alleged to premiere Aug. 25. When Golf Galaxy requested its branding be faraway from the present, Golf Channel initially postponed the airing of the primary episode till Sept. 1, however now, the season has been axed altogether after the PGA Tour introduced Good Good determined to withdraw its title sponsorship of a brand new FedEx Cup Fall occasion in November, which was set to function the fruits of the Massive Break reboot.
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All through the present’s historical past, Massive Break has awarded aspiring skilled golfers exemptions into choose occasions on excursions throughout skilled golf. The winner of Massive Break x Good Good would have earned a spot within the PGA Tour’s Good Good Championship scheduled for Nov. 12-15 at Omni Barton Creek Resort in Austin, Texas, which, as of Thursday afternoon, is now listed as merely the Austin Championship on the Tour’s official schedule.
PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp mentioned throughout a information convention Tuesday on the Tour Championship that the Good Good commercial skit for the Callaway driver was “regarding” and that Good Good’s preliminary response to the backlash was “disappointing.” Good Good first issued a brief assertion on the matter Saturday, then Clark posted an almost 9-minute video Wednesday evening apologizing for the advert.
Golf Channel nonetheless plans to deliver again Massive Break subsequent 12 months, the community mentioned in an announcement issued simply after 6 p.m. ET on Thursday: “Following latest developments involving Good Good, and together with the truth that the supposed end result of the sequence can now not be fulfilled, Golf Channel will be unable to finish this season of Massive Break as deliberate. Whereas we’re disenchanted for the 12 opponents, our manufacturing crew that labored tirelessly on the season, and the present’s passionate followers, we look ahead to Massive Break’s return to Golf Channel in 2027.”
Courting again to its debut in 2003, Massive Break pits highly-skilled golfers towards one another in a wide range of expertise challenges from tee-to-green, together with two of the present’s signature challenges ― the “Glass Break” and the “Flop Wall” ― which have been set to return for Massive Break x Good Good. The final season of the present aired in 2015.
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