2022 Professional golf thread

pendodave

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In general, American TV golf coverage is just bad. Even in strokeplay events they would appear to concentrate on “known players” that are performing worse than a “no name” that is playing well, and fairly high up the leaderboard.
While I am in general agreement with this, I think that matchplay is quite hard to cover when there are so many pairs on the course.
I'd say the optimum for a single broadcast is 4 matches, so if they butcher Saturday, then we know they're rubbish.
Ideally, individual matches would be available to stream/red button on demand (maybe they are, I'm on lates this week, so no golf for me). But one thing that pro golf seems very bad at is actually giving fans a decent product.
 

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I have read here and there people saying it's a Mickey Mouse course, but I like it. The only thing I don't like are the hospitality units which the players are deliberately aiming at. The best in the world shouldn't be going in off the cush'.

Indeed, it's a bit like having the bumper bars up when 10-pin bowling.
 
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