Could you be a commentator?

[muttleee]

Having seen the results of the GM poll to find the greatest golf commentator (Peter Alliss, who else?) it got me wondering what makes a good commentator/pundit. Could any of us do it or do you have to have played the game professionally to be any good at it?

 

[Parmo]

A mind full of golfing knowledge and a life time of drinking alone!!

 

[MVP]

I used to present my own radio station so im used to chatting nonsense on air but i havent got the calm tone needed for golf!. nor has dull boring Gary lineker SACK HIM!

 

[The_Squire]

nor has dull boring Gary lineker SACK HIM!

Bring Steve Ryder back to the BBC, Lineker is garbage.

 

[muttleee]

I was hoping this wouldn't turn into a Lineker-bashing thread...seems I was being a bit optimistic!

 

[medwayjon]

I swear far too much and am not renowned for being exactly impartial either.

I would make a bad golf commentator for sure but as a football commentator I would be the worst ever.

I speak my mind freely and tell it how I see it!

 

[The_Squire]

I was hoping this wouldn't turn into a Lineker-bashing thread...seems I was being a bit optimistic!

Sorry Muttlee, no mate I don't think I could commentate but I would like to hear Stewart Hall do the golf as his footie reports are like a Shakespeare play.

 

[muttleee]

I would like to hear Stewart Hall do the golf as his footie reports are like a Shakespeare play.

Ahhh, Stewart Hall...it would be interesting to hear his commentary of matchplay game, in particular.

 

[HTL]

No way! I have a strong Welsh accent, swear far to much and Would use it as an excuse to moan about the state of our country to loads of people.

 

[toonarmy]

I'm afraid I'd last about 5 minutes before being hauled off the air for shouting "Cheer up you miserable b*stard! Look what you get to do for a living! It's not the end of the world. Try playing on a municipal course on a Saturday afternoon mate - then you'd have something to moan about. And carry your own bags you fat git, you could lose the weight..."

 

[Parmo]

Toon are you talking about Viduka by any chance?

 

[billyg]

Would love to do that job but it's got to be an ex-pro or someone with strong links in the game. On top of that you need a sort of x-factor which makes people warm to you, your voice and style.

So by this definition :

Gary 'punch me' Linekar...

1) Ex-pro : NOT
2) Strong links with the game: NOT
3) x-factor: more like x- chromosome.

A big fat nil for 3 there gazza - jog on.

 

[viscount17]

I speak my mind freely and tell it how I see it!

jon, exactly how does this differ from the norm of football commentators, (except when Man U are involved)?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I am a great admirer of Peter Alliss. I have to be fair and say I also enjoy the on course whimsies of both Richard Boxall and Wayne Grady.

I actually suggested to GM that it would make an interesting feature to go behind the scenes and look at how BBC or Sky put together their broadcasts. Naturally I put myself forward to do the investigative reporting. GM - is the idea a goer?

 

[viscount17]

I would like to travel with them but commentate, no-way. With Ames thinking sub-5 hours is a quick game,I'd be asleep before they played the first hole.
I want a commentator with some bile - I'm sick and tired of the fawning, sycophants that you get on the pga tour.
I don't think I could conjure up enough drivel for the intervening moments - anyone heard Duffield doing the Tour de France? (Chateaux what I have stayed at, wines what me and some unintelligle Irish geezer (sorry guys but he is) have drunk and the latest recipe for three bean soup.)

 

[toonarmy]

Toon are you talking about Viduka by any chance?

Nah, that wouldn't be printable on here!

 

[The_Squire]

I'm afraid I'd last about 5 minutes before being hauled off the air for shouting "Cheer up you miserable b*stard! Look what you get to do for a living! It's not the end of the world. Try playing on a municipal course on a Saturday afternoon mate - then you'd have something to moan about. And carry your own bags you fat git, you could lose the weight..."

All this after a days work and the wife moaning you spend too much time on the golf course , they don't know they're born.

 

[USER1999]

Comments like f**k me, the fat gits only gone and b***dy shanked it, would get me off air pretty quickly I think.

 

[Marko77]

Depends if there was a fit female co-commentator or not.

I wouldn't last long anyway as for example I would have been shouting "puuuusssssyyyy" at Adam Scott at the weekend for laying up on 18 however right he was in his decision - think the right boot would follow shortly after!