Las Vegas in full hoopla mode as golf meets F1 in bizarre mash-up
by Giles Richards in Las Vegas from US news | The Guardian on (#6GCVT)
An unholy coming together of F1 and golf was purely about entertainment in a city that loves a show
Las Vegas loves a show, so in the week that Formula One descends on the city an unholy mash-up of golf and F1 was sport as entertainment writ large and with the emphasis on entertainment.
The streaming platform Netflix staged an unlikely tournament - So, we have the F1 series and the golf series, right? Well how about we put the two together in our first ever live sport broadcast" is perhaps how the pitch went - at the golf course at the Wynn casino overlooking the curcuit where the Las Vegas Grand Prix will be held on Saturday.
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