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

Deeper Blue

Hopefully the coverage improves over the weekend. I've no interest in watching a broadcast that's essentially CNN news with a few golf shots thrown in.

Also, what's the obsession with discussing golfer's kids/whether they've recently had a kid/whether they're about to have a kid. I can't think of another sport where it's fixated upon anywhere near as much. I couldn't tell you how many kids Kevin de Bruyne or Novak Djokovic or Lewis Hamilton has, mainly because it's rightly never mentioned.

Trampas

Some of the questions felt like Scottie knocked the person down. How many times have the general public driven by a fatal accident and carry on their day like nothing happened. It’s like sky and golfers have to mourn a death. If this accident happened 10 miles away nothing be made of it or person had a heart attack at home. Just because it happened outside the gate and involved a volunteer.

Ohmeha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122151942#Comment_122151942

Not just golf I've listened to increasing amounts in these recent woke years in other sports on various networks drowning their broadcasts about newborn babies, engagement rings, weddings… yeah congrats and all that on your private life but I tuned in to watch the action FFS

Musicrules

Was watching the golf on sky. Was missing so much golf there with their chats and then catch up. Switched on CBS, it's like night and day. The Americans actually make it exciting and not missing any leaders shots.

prawnsambo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122152456#Comment_122152456

Woke? 🤣

eagle eye

Theres no woke going on with sky or they wouldn't be praising DeChambeau and everybody else from that tour.

Deeper Blue

Henni Koyack continues to be an absolute pain to listen to. The fact that she's been promoted to a main commentator is an abomination. Feedback on social media is universally negative too from what I can see.

Mantis Toboggan

When players are hitting into the green it wouldn't kill Sky to highlight the flag, often very difficult to see where the green is.

Deeper Blue

Did they show Brooks putting into the bunker before he made that triple? If they did I must've missed it

Jack Daw

Why have they decided to interrupt live coverage of a major in order for us to have to endure a 20 minute interview with Bryson De Chambeau.

Horrendous stuff.Dreadful broadcasting, what is American sports media obsession with doing everything bar showing the sport they are broadcasting.

Deeper Blue

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261209#Comment_122261209

And that's after already showing us Bryson's interview with Sky several hours ago. Sky's coverage has definitely gone downhill in the last few years.

awec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261209#Comment_122261209

I suspect the Sky lads were all on a break during that but yes, that was excruciating.

awec

maybe not, Bryson back again.

This is awful coverage. The guy talking to him is a dose.

Deeper Blue

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261246#Comment_122261246

Smylie Kaufman. Was in the final group on Sunday at the Masters one time, shot 81, done nothing since. Apart from maybe causing multiple TVs to be switched off in unison

CalamariFritti

The thing is for PGA events Sky is just piggy backing on the signal from US broadcasters. And those have a lot of weird stuff going. Like from 1 to 4 its golf channel then for an hour or two its Peacock, then for the rest of the evening its CBS. When it goes from one to the other there are often longish breaks with hardly any live pictures. Sometimes Sky even says this out loud. Regular viewers will know this. Also we all know the US broadcasters have wicked ad schedules.

Sky then takes all that and cuts and mashes and glosses over so that it almost looks like as if it was 'their' signal and gloss over all the US interruptions. Most likely the Bryson interview is such a gloss over of either a broadcaster switch or something or other that would be even of less interest to a European audience.

You can say a lot about Sky like too expensive anyway and too much former greats coverage and yay Scotty had his second daughter and Henny and Nick and Laura and all the rest of it. But on a technical and professional level they know what they're doing. They're doing this for a long time.

Deeper Blue

Henni: "If anyone can handle this putt it's Corey Connors"

This is the same Corey Connors that's known for being one of the worst putters on tour. Superb analysis.

Trampas

Henni getting her Rodgers mixed up