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Quite funny when they cut to an unknown amateur with a 30 foot birdie putt - you know he's going to hole it before he starts the club moving!!
Does the BBC get it?
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Piece
Tour Winner
Dare I say most are acting really spoilt here? It's a bit like rich ladies in a coffee bar moaning that they can't fit in tennis practice because the gardener has trim their grass too short.
We've got full Open coverage on the BBC, Sky doing coverage all year round on their SkySports Ch4 and yet there's complaints still? I remember when there was hardly any coverage anywhere.
We've got full Open coverage on the BBC, Sky doing coverage all year round on their SkySports Ch4 and yet there's complaints still? I remember when there was hardly any coverage anywhere.
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Snelly
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WOW some people really are hard to please, and to think you could have been born into a 3rd world country and may never of heard of the game of golf
Thanks. I hadn't thought of it like that. You're clearly much wiser than you initially appear.
As for being hard to please, not really. I just want to watch golf shots in a golf tournament rather than listen to a celebrity sports presenter do another overfamiliar interview.
MegaSteve
Tour Winner
Unlike Sky the target audience for the Beeb is Joe Public so there are bound to be periphery 'news' items to broaden the interest...
Dare I say most are acting really spoilt here? It's a bit like rich ladies in a coffee bar moaning that they can't fit in tennis practice because the gardener has trimmed their bush too short.
We've got full Open coverage on the BBC, Sky doing coverage all year round on their SkySports Ch4 and yet there's complaints still? I remember when there was hardly any coverage anywhere.
tea all over the keyboard time :rofl:
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
I though you had a bit more nous about you than that. the mini interview is for singleton's benefit more than anyone else. young man playing in his one and only open. something to look back on fondly.
more than pleased to see him have his 15 minutes of fame!
rosecott
Money List Winner
Couldn't agree less.
Knowledgeable, witty and entertaining, a worthy successor to the great Henry Longhurst.
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
Dare I say most are acting really spoilt here? It's a bit like rich ladies in a coffee bar moaning that they can't fit in tennis practice because the gardener has trim their grass too short.
We've got full Open coverage on the BBC, Sky doing coverage all year round on their SkySports Ch4 and yet there's complaints still? I remember when there was hardly any coverage anywhere.
There's a euphemism in there somewhere
One Planer
Global Moderator
This is taken from the BBC website
"Matt Jones chips in from the bunker for an eagle"
Chipping in...... From a bunker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/28346758
No wonder people don't rate the beeb's coverage!
"Matt Jones chips in from the bunker for an eagle"
Chipping in...... From a bunker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/28346758
No wonder people don't rate the beeb's coverage!
pendodave
Tour Rookie
Really don't get the negative comments.
Nothing is perfect, but wall-to-wall free open golf is pretty much as good as it gets.
Reading the Daily Mail for long enough must do more damage to the cerebral cortex than previously realised.....
Given the issues getting people onto courses nowadays, moving the only free-to-air 4 day coverage of the summer onto Sky would be madness if the R&A has any commitment to growing the game of golf as opposed to lining their own pockets. cf the TCCB....
Nothing is perfect, but wall-to-wall free open golf is pretty much as good as it gets.
Reading the Daily Mail for long enough must do more damage to the cerebral cortex than previously realised.....
Given the issues getting people onto courses nowadays, moving the only free-to-air 4 day coverage of the summer onto Sky would be madness if the R&A has any commitment to growing the game of golf as opposed to lining their own pockets. cf the TCCB....
Tiger could not have had 169 yards into that Par 5 
He smashed his 5 wood and come up short!!!
He smashed his 5 wood and come up short!!!
rosecott
Money List Winner
This is taken from the BBC website
"Matt Jones chips in from the bunker for an eagle"
Chipping in...... From a bunker
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/28346758
No wonder people don't rate the beeb's coverage!
One poor headline on the website and you condemn the entire BBC coverage on TV and radio. Really?
One Planer
Global Moderator
Not as such.
But, surely, the headline could have been better?
"Matt Jones finished his first round with an eagle after an exceptional hole out from a tricky greenside bunker"
To me, the headline shows a lack of understanding of the game on the Beebs part. Almost to the point where it's not taken seriously.
Peter Alliss and Ken Brown are a different kettle of fish. Great knowledge and first hand experience of the game. Perhaps they should write the headlines?
FairwayDodger
Money List Winner
I'm kind of hoping it's not on the telly.....?
freddielong
Tour Winner
If you look hard enough you can find reason to hate anything
Haters gonna Hate
Haters gonna Hate
Chris Evans BBC radio 2 sports commentator Vassos Alexander this morning talking to Evans from The Open.
Evans-How many times has Tom Watson won the Open?
Alexander-Er 3 times (its 5)
Applause in the background...
Evans-Who are they applauding?
Alexander-Er I dont know (even though he's looking at him)
Unbelievable
Evans-How many times has Tom Watson won the Open?
Alexander-Er 3 times (its 5)
Applause in the background...
Evans-Who are they applauding?
Alexander-Er I dont know (even though he's looking at him)
Unbelievable
davidy233
Tour Rookie
Chris Evans BBC radio 2 sports commentator Vassos Alexander this morning talking to Evans from The Open.
Evans-How many times has Tom Watson won the Open?
Alexander-Er 3 times (its 5)
Applause in the background...
Evans-Who are they applauding?
Alexander-Er I dont know (even though he's looking at him)
Unbelievable
I happened to hear this - Hardly a specialist golf journalist, he's the guy who does links on the radio - as I remember it he didn't say he'd won it three times - he said he didn't know, Evans said Watson had won it five time after someone had looked it up seconds later - Vassos also commented that he hadn't been watching when the player you mentioned had hit a cracking shot to four feet on the third - understandable as he hadn't started his golf shift for Radio 5 Live - he said he was preparing the 'Top ten tenuous' for Chris at the time.
Maybe you are hard of hearing? or less accurate than the BBC - check the iPlayer to see if I'm right
SKY had Manchester City playing Dundee United last Sunday - they didn't play them - does that mean SKY are rubbish too
As said above 'Haters gonna hate'
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Chris Evans BBC radio 2 sports commentator Vassos Alexander this morning talking to Evans from The Open.
Evans-How many times has Tom Watson won the Open?
Alexander-Er 3 times (its 5)
Applause in the background...
Evans-Who are they applauding?
Alexander-Er I dont know (even though he's looking at him)
Unbelievable
Yes it's unbelievable that someone could every make a mistake and not recognise one golfer from over 150 playing at the open currently
If you believe Sky don't make mistakes then you are in a dream world - you don't like BBC - it appears having 11 hours un interrupted coverage on telly plus over 12 hours live on the Radio -( coverage time that is unrivalled by anything on Sky ) isn't up to your standards.
But they could show it 24 hours a day and you would find something wrong
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