Golf coverage/commentator discussion thread!! Mod note #12

Joe_ Public

On balance sky coverage is pretty decent. Its good they have female input on the commentary team, but i'm not sure Laura Davies adds all that much. Made a rather strange comment midway through the round about Lowry to the effect "his mouth must be getting a bit dry out there". Wasnt sure if she was getting at some stereotype or not, but then Rich Boxall followed it with "he'll be getting a bit of a thirst by now alright." I was wondering, does Lowry not carry a bottle of water with him or something?

GolfNut33

Joe_ Public wrote: »

On balance sky coverage is pretty decent. Its good they have female input on the commentary team, but i'm not sure Laura Davies adds all that much. Made a rather strange comment midway through the round about Lowry to the effect "his mouth must be getting a bit dry out there". Wasnt sure if she was getting at some stereotype or not, but then Rich Boxall followed it with "he'll be getting a bit of a thirst by now alright." I was wondering, does Lowry not carry a bottle of water with him or something?

Dry mouth is associated with being nervous. Don't think there was any stereo type implied.

Joe_ Public

GolfNut33 wrote: »

Dry mouth is associated with being nervous. Don't think there was any stereo type implied.

Yeah i'd say you're definitely correct, pretty sure nothing at all meant by Davies, though not quite so certain about Boxall. Not really a big thing anyway to be honest, just thought it a sounded bit odd when i heard it at the time.

MisterAnarchy

Joe_ Public wrote: »

On balance sky coverage is pretty decent.

It was decent enough but they are missing Livingstone and Butch alot.
Rich Beem is hard to listen to .
Their coverage seemed bland .

callaway92

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

It was decent enough but they are missing Livingstone and Butch alot.
Rich Beem is hard to listen to .
Their coverage seemed bland .

Disagree on both of these so much

Sharp MZ700

Mark Roe trying to be a funny guy is just cringeworthy, Beemer must think he's a right a4sewipe.

Remind me

Sharp MZ700 wrote: »

Mark Roe trying to be a funny guy is just cringeworthy, Beemer must think he's a right a4sewipe.

I did enjoy Nick Doherty pulling him up on a couple of things last night.

callaway92

I generally don't mind Mark Roe, but the crap he gives DeChambeau on commentary rattles me

Goldenjohn

Who was the lady commentating on Sky this evening. Talked way too much, just let the pictures do the talking please.

MuffinTop86

Kay something or other, yea she was annoying.

Yesterday they were calling Kokrak cock rack, today it was coke rack

Goldenjohn

Seemed to be trying too much to let everyone know she knew her stuff. But mostly it was irrelevant ****e

Sharp MZ700

callaway92 wrote: »

I generally don't mind Mark Roe, but the crap he gives DeChambeau on commentary rattles me

If you're not British you're a nobody in his book.

First Up

Sharp MZ700 wrote: »

If you're not British you're a nobody in his book.

Unless you are Tiger Woods, in which case be prepared to drown in the adoration.

callaway92

Sharp MZ700 wrote: »

If you're not British you're a nobody in his book.

Very true. He's ridic biased

callaway92

First Up wrote: »

Unless you are Tiger Woods, in which case be prepared to drown in the adoration.

Jaysis, I dunno.

He likes to throw in the old 'the Tiger of old wouldn't have missed that', about 15 times a round.

First Up

callaway92 wrote: »

Jaysis, I dunno.

He likes to throw in the old 'the Tiger of old wouldn't have missed that', about 15 times a round.

I think he's paid by the mention.

yaboya1

Who cares what Mark Roe thinks? He's a nobody. He's most famous for not signing his card at the Open nearly 20 years ago. I doubt any pro gives a flying fcuk what he says or doesn't say about them.

First Up

yaboya1 wrote: »

Who cares what Mark Roe thinks? He's a nobody. He's most famous for not signing his card at the Open nearly 20 years ago. I doubt any pro gives a flying fcuk what he says or doesn't say about them.

He isn't talking to the pro's. His job is to talk up Tiger. That's all.

MuffinTop86

Did anyone hear what the guy on the tee said when announcing McIlroy just there?

Wish they’d finished showing Miracle at Medinah

fullstop

Who is the woman commentating on Sky with Ewan Murray? Bloody painful.

fullstop

fullstop wrote: »

Who is the woman commentating on Sky with Ewan Murray? Bloody painful.

She's not the best in fairness!

fred funk }{

Ward J. Littell wrote: »

She's not the best in fairness!

Gender quota. Like the female referee in the soccer during the week and the beeb have a female commenting on the soccer too.

Deeper Blue

Never seen that interviewer on Sky before. Seems like a bag of nerves.

Agree with those saying the new female commentator isn't up to scratch. She's dreadful.

Did these two win a competition to be part of the Sky team for the week or what?

Seve OB

fred funk }{ wrote: »

Gender quota. Like the female referee in the soccer during the week and the beeb have a female commenting on the soccer too.

The beeb had 2 female commentators on the football last year. One of them was so painful to listen to, I used to just fast forward through her games

Sharp MZ700

This coverage is worse than hanging out washing.

Remind me

Must be alone in thinking the coverage has been quite good.

Early play showed plenty of players and shots, as for Kay Cockerill I would rather listen to her than some on the sky team. She seems to be very knowledgeable.

idle

This Presidents Cup coverage is worse than anything I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something!

Benicetomonty

idle wrote: »

This Presidents Cup coverage is worse than anything I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something!

Amount of ads is incredible.

Rikand

Benicetomonty wrote: »

Amount of ads is incredible.

Well its not too bad. They keep saying that they are playing through the commercial

If its coming from an australian feed it must be insufferable to watch golf in oz

Mantis Toboggan

Think Australia is a bit like the US where they're happy enough to watch lots of ads instead.