BBC golf commentary

[GB72]

I think that there is a role for Chris Evans to play in the future, just not anchoring the main coverage. A late night highlights/interview show would suit and perhaps attract some non-golfers to the sport.

As for commentary teams, I had to listen to much of the open on 5 live and would be happy for any of their on course team to take on the BBC coverage.

As for the man in the studio, anyone but Linekar. I do not even think he does that good a job on Match of the Day and that is a sport he knows about. He works OK as a bland entity for the more knowlegeable and personable pundits to bounce off and it is the pundits that make MOTD watchable.

Steve Rider for me knows how to anchor coverage so he gets my vote.

 

[henrym]

I think Hazel Irvine is also a good golf broadcaster. She is in deed very good on the sport and definitely knows her stuff.
I do think Linker should be replace I thought he was terrible at the Open and his accent (no offence to Leciester people) but it was droning on and on. Whilst I like Sam Torrence as a pundit at times he does say sometimes the most obvious statement. My favourite was at The Masters when he said 'Looks like the leaders are playing well' it made me chuckle.
Anyway I think if the BEEB had a new host for golf it should be a man.
You should take over?

 

[ClarkeCAGC]

Yes but we know the key of the bbc commentary team is the legendary Peter Aliss.... What a guy

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I don't know but she always seems as though she could be quite mischevious if given half a chance and she isn't that shabby on the eyes.

I don't think the Beeb will give Chris Evans the gig as he's still seen as too much of a loose cannon for the TV work. I think Rider would be a good shout. Anyone but Lineker

 

[toyboy54]

Homer.....'A CERTAIN GLINT'??????.Please explain!!!!????


Jimbo

 

[John_Findlay]

Lineker is absolutely fantastic......


...... until he speaks. Really. An absolute star in the Chaplin era. I can imagine him making millions as a pundit in the days of Old Tom and the like. He could narrate in semaphore with his ears. Save on subtitles.

The fact that he doesn't have a clue about the game (despite his handicap), likes to make puerile, teenage jokes I'd be embarrassed if my nephews made, interrupts golfing gods when they have interesting stuff to say and has the charisma of cheese shouldn't really hold him back. After all he can smile for old ladies who ogled him in shorts in 1980.

Pay him more I say. I've got cash to spare for my TV licence. I'll set up an extra direct debit now.

Erm, maybe not. Chubby Brown would be better.....and I have a contract out on him.

 

[CrapHacker]

Craphacker I take your point about the idea that a well known anchor might well help get in new non-golf viewers (and believe me I think any way we can grow the game is worth looking at) but Sky don't see the need to do it with their coverage of big golf events like the US Majors and the Ryder Cup.

I object to the erosion of roles for proper journalists (print, radio and broadcast) in favour of celebrities fronting media output

Sky golf coverage is catering for the golfing viewers. People with Sky have the choice to watch what they want. Sky have plenty of money. It is a professionally run company. Etc etc.

The BBC is an inadequate anachonism. It is run by mysogynistic ageist buffoons who couldn't organise the proverbial.

I'm not suggesting that Hazel needs the famous faces to be able to do her job, I'm saying that the Beeb wouldn't trust her to be enough of a draw without a famous face onscreen alongside her. They are so desperate to clutch at any straw when it comes to ratings that they'll pay Jonathan Ross millions to do a half baked job rather than pay less and get a professional in.

If Sir Nick is unavailable, then they could possibly make do with another famous oldie who is still playing but rarely makes it to the weekend. Answers on a postcard.

Talking in terms of using people with the correct journalist background, I could imaging the BBC offering a job to Kelly Holmes. Or Kirsty Gallagher ( although she's getting a bit past it by their standards ). Or maybe Jordan if she were a couple of years younger. Konnie Huq ?

Got it. They're making a bid for Emma Watson, aren't they.

Anyway why so big on jobs for the journo boys and girls switching from print to tv ? Got any plans you want to share with us ?

 

[viscount17]

If Sir Nick is unavailable, then they could possibly make do with another famous oldie who is still playing but rarely makes it to the weekend. Answers on a postcard.

and therein lies the rub. as big ears so ably proves, being reasonably proficient (allegedly) in one discipline doesn't mean that you're fit to carry the bucket behind the elephants in another.

so, we need a golfing oldie, that the occasional, non-golfing, audience will recognise but who is still playing well enough so that the younger generation accept him. they should also be capable of stringing two consecutive sentences together without mention of parrots, moons, halves (two of), and who can also avoid stating the blindingly obvious and puerile jokes. Oh, and (s)he also has to realise that it's the players that are important.

think we could manage that on the back of the stamp.

 

[birdieman]

For what its worth I think the BBC crew is too big.

I like Hazel, Alliss, Brown and Maureen (on course) a lot so keep them.

I can put up with Grady and Torrance in small doses but wouldn't miss them one bit.

I don't care for Cotter or Lineker at golf at all.
Keep the top 4 and find both a Yank in the Dave Marr mould and a good comic golfer like Tarby or Corbett for ad-libbing to add some humour and it's be just fine.

 

[viscount17]

Tarby, Corbett - next you'll be advocating (god help us) Forsythe.

 

[drawboy]

Sarah Stirk always seemed to do a good job on Setanta and she knows her stuff. It would be nice to see her back.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

A man adrift in a sea of his own self importance. Lineker is not a professional TV presenter despite huge money being thrown at him to improve his presentation skills (according to my BBC mole) and has reached a plateau. I can't see him re-inventing himself of changing his style and so he's caught between trying to be a cheeky chappie and housewives favourite and a safe pair of hands or actually going ahead and changing his presentation skills into something sharper and more dynamic but running the risk of losing popularity and viewing figures for the Beeb.

From what I've heard Konnie Huq is being groomed as the next Christine Bleakly and Myleen Klass and will be hitting screens regularly next year. For what its worth, I think the BBC should have Allis and Brown in the studio and put Torrance out on the fairways where I think he'd have a bit more freedom to call it as he sees it rather than poorly attempting to describe it from the monitors. I think they are a studio man light, but I use to think Ronan Rafferty did and OK job on Setanta and he might fit the bill

 

[Dodger]

Buggerlugs has just said in the Toon v Baggies half time summary 'it's hard to judge the teams what with it being so early in the season,in fact it's pre season really'.......what part of the 1st league fixture is pre season you wooden fud???!!

Sums the *** up,the guy shouldn't be on our screens doing football never mind fronting golf.

 

[Basher]

Gary Lineker = boring droning voice zzzzzzzz!!!!

Hazel Irvine = a Scot who obviously knows her way round a golf course and interviews well.

Peter Alliss = A complete legend who speaks his mind whilst commentating.

No celeb commentators please, God forbid we get the likes of current celebs such as Fearne Cotton, Davina McCall or even Peter bloody Andre. Wouldn't mind Myleene Klass, OK, she's on every other programme on the telly as the likes of the aforementioned, she is however very pleasing on the eye. Nope, they should stick to their own areas of expertise ( I doubt many celebs have any expertise)