People have purchased clubs based on Rick’s club reviews spending thousands of dollars. The fact he deleted a video where he gave negative feedback on a club is a big deal. Especially if Titleist was able to make him delete the video.
Yes people will move on & forget. But what he did shows that his audience is just a means to an end (views aka $) . What they think or deserve is the last of his concerns. We are just a product to him. Hope one day he realizes that without that same audience he’d be just some unknown pga pro in a club somewhere in England..
Well... I Actually did see that video and for you who didn't and are wondering what this is all about here is a short summary: Backstory: Few years ago Rick said in some podcast that he doesn't consider Titleist as a driver company. For example TSr line from Titleist was the only driver lineup he never rewied in his channel. He rewieved basicly every other brand drivers. Now in the GT video he acted like the fitter had slept with his wife. I have never ever seen that kinda behavuor from Rick. He said he is a fader of the golfball, tried to hit fades the whole fitting and made clear after that he didn't like the feel of the club. Not even when hit from the middle of the face. I have been watching his videos for years and never seen that kind of dias from him. Ofc I don't know what has happened between him & Titleist but I must say that after seeing that video I fully understand why people are pressing him about this issue.
Im sure RS is using a agency to promote his buisness and its the same company titliest use to promote. Probably told to take it down as it was a bad look to buisness partners
I stopped watching Rick's videos about two years ago. Part was the negativity he had about his game, and part was the fact that his game was painful to watch. It's hard to watch someone hit a dozen terrible wedge shots in an 18 hole round. I walk my dog around the golf course close to my house-I can get my fill of watching people hit awful shots. I used to enjoy his gear review videos, in which he'd hit a bunch of shots and then give us the Quad GC data averaged over 20 shots or something. Then he started doing more playing videos, which didn't go well (how many times has he actually broken 75 in one of those videos?), and his review videos became these really abbreviated things where he gave us data from more like 5 shots, and his data didn't match the data coming from other creators testing the same clubs. "New Ping Driver? I'm hitting it 300 rpm more than this Callaway I've been playing." Except three other channels did test videos and found that the new Ping was averaging 150 rpm less than the Callaway.
People watch Rick’s club reviews for his honest opinion and feedback. Anyone that has purchased clubs based on his reviews should give a damn. It appears Titleist was able to make Rick delete the video since he gave negative feedback on the new drivers.
@@coverfire32 if your decide your club purchases of a RU-vidr than you got bigger issues. Not diminishing Rick’s skills by any means, in actuality, most people who watch his videos couldn’t even sniff his handicap. Thus if you’re an average golfer, you should be listening to the people who are helping you at your club fitting. Rick can use any club given to him and beat us silly. You have to find what works for your inconsistencies.
@@JDistheLIQUOR I just bought a new driver and didn’t even try the Titleist one at my fitting. After watching the fitting video from Rick I didn’t even want to swing it to be honest. Which is weird because it’s the driver I was most excited to try this year.
@@coverfire32 I believe you just unlocked the reason why the video was taken down. They gave Rick a slice of the pie for his honest review, and his influencer status cost Titleist a customer (you). He influenced too hard in the wrong direction for their liking. And so now, you’ll never know what could have been. If you’re going to spend an exorbitant amount of time and money on one’s craft, why wouldn’t you want to test all the tools when possible?
I think this is a bad take Nate. Rick’s entire brand has been built off of honesty and club reviews and obviously his play too. If he took it down because of Titleist then his integrity has to come into question. If it’s just because of how he looked that’s dumb because he’s addressed that before and has kept videos up in the past when he got hate for his bad mood.
He’s got fitting videos up of better driver brands than Titelist anyways it’s so funny to see all the curiosity. If was ping or Taylormade or callaway ok
@@christofferandersson868 I didn’t say they weren’t the biggest or they aren’t a nice brand. I’m saying as far as drivers go there are better brands. 2 for certain possibly 3. I’d understand a wedges review yes I want to see it. Driver? lol
I think he might have deleted some stuff when BDS was there but I also don’t think he has ever really talked about that whole ordeal either. He made mention of the drinking on this weeks pod but that’s about it.
in my opinion, youtube Golf is getting boring now, just like you pointed out with all of the identical content. It will be a personal preference thing for a lot of people, maybe they like the same same style of videos and don't mind watching different creators copying and doing the same, but for me I like originality and variety, which is why I've unsubscribed from a lot of youtube channels and now only have a handful on my subscribed list. Creators see a video on someones channel that has done well, and they copy it. Theres a group from the UK called Big Wedge Golf who have started up. They're all random youtube creators (people from Sidemen) who have teamed up with Sebongolf to create the channel. I don't think any of them are even interested in golf, and I don't think any of them will have a handicap lower than 10, but every single one of their videos has been copied from Good Good, yet they get the views and they have nearly half a million subscribers in just over 4 months.
Talk about copying... Rick's breaking series is by far the most copied format. It's not even close. Every RU-vid golf video is "breaking". I don't get these young kid vids. Good for them but who cares about 6 and 8 year olds golfing. They could be over it before they get to high school. I always skip those vids.
What answers are you looking for? Clearly Rick was having a bad day. The video made Rick look bad. It didn't make Titleist look great either. I'm sure all parties were happy to scrap the content. Regardless of any prior agreements or commitments.
The haters heads are exploding. So many who never knew Trump's passion for golf goes way beyond just owning courses were able to see he's very good and loves the game. Bryson and Trump raised a lot of money for Wounded Warrior Project. What else matters? The other side can't even say their names.
I wish they’d adopt a channel acquisition model instead. Keep the core ‘Good Good’ group as the main 5. Garret, Steve, Matt, Bubby, Brad (and I’d accept Sean). Then everyone else they ‘acquire’. Meaning they buy a minority (or majority) stake in their channel and support them with the GG brand and infrastructure. They don’t become members of Good Good. Their channels become Good Good affiliate channels. That way they can invest in up and coming talent which has always been a strategy for Garrett and GG. But they don’t over saturate the core group with too many members. Thoughts?
As an opinion Peter Finch, Matt Fryer, Rick Shiels and the rest of the English PGA professionals and RU-vidrs are probably just beating themselves up for nothing. The Open qualifiers are being or at least were being contested by Tour Pros, players who play golf for a living. The point is the likes of Peter and Rick are making their living from RU-vid not by playing week in week out. They probably don't practice and have coaches etc. I think it is a mistake the RU-vid pros enter the comps or in this case qualifiers because it's a waste of everyone's time
You can't deny that Good Good was very good to you. I started following before you put up any vids on the new channel. By not saying only keeps the drama going.
Nate is a f**king looser, calls himself a Good Good athlete 😂😂 They just give him some swag so he talks them up. None of these big RU-vidrs couldn’t care less about him. They just throw him some bread crumbs here and there so he talks up their channels. If you’re so desperate to be a relevant RU-vid golfer go grind and put together so good content on the course instead of trying to ride everyone else’s coattails.
I just wish you'd get enough subscribers that you make enough guacamole off of this gig to get a better studio/backdrop for your work. Otherwise you are you and you just speak it like you think it. Keep on keeping on.
When you are the only option for youtube golf commentary doesn't really matter whether you like him or not. Nate and golf highlights save me hours every week
