Dubai and UAE resident Shiv Kapur is an Indian professional golfer.
Following a successful amateur career, winning the Indian and Malaysian Amateur Opens in 2000 and an individual gold medal at the 2002 Asian Games, Shiv turned professional in 2004.
In his second season on the Asian Tour he won the season ending Volvo Masters of Asia and finished the year fourth on the Asian Tour Order of Merit.
He joined the European Tour in 2007, having earned enough as an affiliate member in 2006 to qualify for his playing privileges in Europe.
Shiv now calls Dubai home with his family and is an Ambassador for the EAGL Series.
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Following a successful amateur career, winning the Indian and Malaysian Amateur Opens in 2000 and an individual gold medal at the 2002 Asian Games, Shiv turned professional in 2004.
In his second season on the Asian Tour he won the season ending Volvo Masters of Asia and finished the year fourth on the Asian Tour Order of Merit.
He joined the European Tour in 2007, having earned enough as an affiliate member in 2006 to qualify for his playing privileges in Europe.
Shiv now calls Dubai home with his family and is an Ambassador for the EAGL Series.
Read the full story here:
See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos
Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km
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00:00Amateur golf is very very important and I think that sort of gets overlooked a lot
00:11Golf needs something new golf needs a new format, you know in cricket when they started t20 a lot of the
00:18People sort of scoffed at it and said, you know
00:21This this is a gimmick and it's not here to stay and look where we are today
00:24T20 is the is the is the most popular format. I won't say it's the greatest format, but it's the most popular
00:30It's brought in a whole new audience. I think you know from drawing parallels with cricket. I think that was a t20 version of golf
00:3718 holes given where we are today with our kids are with all their devices and you know
00:43You're struggling to get push your kids out of the house
00:45It was all it's always going to be a challenge to keep a 18 hole 72 hole format sort of going in the long run
00:52So I personally think nine holes is the future
00:54It was very punchy amateur golf is very very important
00:58And I think that sort of gets overlooked a lot
01:01Dubai has done a great job of putting itself on the map by hosting some of the biggest professional tournaments
01:06But the real growth of the game has to come at the amateur level in the junior level
01:10And I think with events like Eagle not just the mini series, but what lies ahead. I think it's a great opportunity to
01:18Open up what amateur golf is all about give the expatriate community in Dubai something
01:23That's really needed this creates a community feel it brings people together and more importantly
01:28I think it's the future of the format of golf
01:31Nine holes is where it's at
01:33I think people don't have the attention span to watch golf for five hours on TV two hours and done
01:38And I really think it's here to stay some sort of innovation has to happen
01:42I think we've seen the viewership is getting older
01:45If you want to bring a younger audience into the game if you want to bring more kids into the game
01:50We have to make it more fun personally yes shorter because of the attention span
01:55But also you need to change other things around it
01:57You don't want to take your kid out to the golf and say you have to be quiet for five hours
02:00And you know you want music you want fun you want them to go and have a good day out you go to
02:05Soccer game you can go and shout and scream your lungs out you go to
02:10Watch a baseball game in America or football game, so golf's got to be more entertainment
02:14I think the professional game needs to innovate
02:16I don't think we've honed in on what that perfect answer is
02:20But if you were to ask me personally I think a nine hole head-to-head sort of battle a team competition
02:27Something on those lines is where I really see the future if you look at just viewership in general
02:32You know the Ryder Cup or the President's Cup
02:34Gets a lot more traction than an individual event a team is always bigger than an individual
02:39So maybe a team format and a shorter format is definitely the future
02:43But I don't think the tours have looked at that seriously enough. I think
02:47Look, there's always going to be a place for your four-round majors and your World Golf Championships
02:51But on a day-to-day basis how many people actually watching regular tour events so some sort of innovation really needs to happen