Giving GOLFTV a try

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Fancied seeing how Justin and all would do.

But fancied something different from a nowtv pass.

Not sure how much they will show, possibly just featured holes plus some highlights. Quality seems okay so far.
 
How much is it and is it only on an internet streaming site?

Keep us posted as I've also chucked Now TV as it's gone back to £33 a month, happy paying £20 as I really only watch golf.
 
Had a quick look out of idle curiosity. Looks to be available worldwide. But nowhere could I find any prices quoted. Anyone know the costs?
 
I joined for this exact same reason over the weekend.

It's less than £5 a month, coverage isn't amazing but it's good enough to keep track of players and see the juiciest parts of the day, seems to be some lapses in content with several minute periods of the leaderboard and silence but this makes for a good brew making opportunity.

I would recommend it for the price, don't watch much other sports so I can't justify paying for a sky sports pass.

You can also watch golftv on 4 devices at the same time so I fired over my details to the old man who watched it on his iPad whilst i had it on in the background on my laptop.

I never thought it was available in the UK so couldn't help but join when it allowed me to.
 
Just tried logging in on my computer instead of on the app and it is allowing me to subscribe. The app gives no option of this at all. For less than a fiver a month then I think I'll go for it since I have no other option to watch.
 
Have subbed as well, less than a fiver a month. Worth a shot!
Picture quality when cast to my 55 inch Sony is pretty good as well.
 
Sky Sports month pass on Now TV is very expensive at £33.99, should be somewhere around the offer price of £20.00. We had letter in last week from Sky offering Sky Q with Sports, boxsets and HD for £35 per month. OK thats an 18 month contract and you cant dip in and out of the service like Now TV, but you have better quality picture, multiple channel recording facility and a catch service.
 
Excuse my ignorance but just seen this thread.

Will all 4 majors be shown through this app live?

I’ve just cancelled sky last night simply couldn’t justify the price anymore for 4 tournaments a year
 
It seems like a lot of sports are going towards a standalone digital streaming service.

Not a major issue as long as the service is good, fairly priced and ideally it is easy to watch on multiple devices (including a big tele).

I'm still amazed that the English Premier League don't do this and allow people to just buy a season ticket to watch their teams games. Current UK rules don't allow televised 3pm kick offs, so just have every team kicking off at 12:45pm or 5:30pm and let people buy any game they want.

I'm a fan of Sky and I think they do a great job of covering golf. It also looks like they are finally ditching the golf channel / CBS coverage and having their own team stateside. Ok, not all that fussed with Mark Roe, but the other guys and girls are good. But in my view Sky really need to change their approach more broadly. It must cost them absolute fortunes to maintain and install the Sky equipment. They need to move to a more flexible streaming service and save millions a year on installing Sky dishes and boxes.

Only issue with every sport having their standalone streaming service is a casual viewer is not going to be introduced to a random sport. I remember channel hopping and coming across the 1997 Ryder Cup finale on a Sunday afternoon as a 12 year old who knew very little about golf. Never missed another Ryder Cup since and I remember actively looking forward to the 99 Ryder Cup starting.

That is a challenge for the broadcasters to have some kind of multiple sport service / package and offer free views or trailers for other sports across their platform.
 
GolfTv will single handedly ruin golf coverage on sky sports in my opinion.

Discovery (golftv) have the PGA rights for the next 12 years internationally outside of the US, sky have rights until 2022, after then I don't know what will be on the cards for golf on sky sports? I imagine they'll focus on ensuring they have rights to all champions league matches or something as a priority.

Don't think the rights for the masters have been announced yet so I imagine there is still some big battles for rights to some of the majors..

GolfTv will be the netflix of golf, I imagine they will put a lot of documentaries on there etc too, not to mention they have signed deals with Tiger for instructional videos, commentaries and analysis etc. and have access to numerous tours including pga euro tour and web.com
 
So is there a clear breakdown of what it actually includes for those of us in the UK? Ideally in contrast with what sky offers? I assume you're not getting live feature group coverage on the final two days (Sat and Sunday)? There website and support info seems a tad messy currently. If it's a complete offering of both live coverage and on-demand replays for PGA Tour events I'll probably sign up.
 
Seanz25 said:
So is there a clear breakdown of what it actually includes for those of us in the UK? Ideally in contrast with what sky offers? I assume you're not getting live feature group coverage on the final two days (Sat and Sunday)? There website and support info seems a tad messy currently. If it's a complete offering of both live coverage and on-demand replays for PGA Tour events I'll probably sign up.
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It's not the clearest yet and the website is still in it's beta stage, however at £5 a month to have it on my computer so I can listen in at work alone is worth it to me especially the Thursday Friday buildup. I didn't know what the content would be like but I'm happy enough with it to keep the subscription going especially as they literally have every available Tour available under the PGA umbrella.

Nice to have a collection of on demand stuff to listen to which will grow now they have tiger on board.

I was watching live over the weekend and the coverage wasn't up there with Sky's but it's early days and it's a fraction of the price and can be cancelled at any time without signing up to contracts.

Worth a punt.
 
Britishshooting said:
It's not the clearest yet and the website is still in it's beta stage, however at £5 a month to have it on my computer so I can listen in at work alone is worth it to me especially the Thursday Friday buildup. I didn't know what the content would be like but I'm happy enough with it to keep the subscription going especially as they literally have every available Tour available under the PGA umbrella.

Nice to have a collection of on demand stuff to listen to which will grow now they have tiger on board.

I was watching live over the weekend and the coverage wasn't up there with Sky's but it's early days and it's a fraction of the price and can be cancelled at any time without signing up to contracts.

Worth a punt.
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Sure, that makes sense. I'm just trying to clarify whether you can watch full video coverage live on the Saturday and Sunday or is it simply just clips continuously posted throughout the day?
 
Seanz25 said:
Sure, that makes sense. I'm just trying to clarify whether you can watch full video coverage live on the Saturday and Sunday or is it simply just clips continuously posted throughout the day?
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No it's all live streamed, the video link to the round looks like all other 'on demand' stuff however it just has a 'live' tag in the corner, click on this and it's live coverage.

For example the first round tomorrow is noted as 'scheduled' which is down to run from 2.30pm to 8.00pm so you can watch the full days golf live, it's the same as this for all other rounds. I'm not sure however if you miss the first hour or so if you can rewind the stream or your locked by where you enter the stream.
 
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Do you get full coverage of the rounds, i.e. is it like watching Sky where they move from hole to hole, player to player so you can see all the important action or is it fixed to your choice of hole or playing group?
 
pool888 said:
Do you get full coverage of the rounds, i.e. is it like watching Sky where they move from hole to hole, player to player so you can see all the important action or is it fixed to your choice of hole or playing group?
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Yes they move from hole to hole and group to group, they have a couple of featured holes which they like to focus on too but they seemed to capture all the important shots from what I saw.

Some rookie mistakes but it happens, for instance Spieth was -4 for the day after his eagle at 13, then -5 after a birdie on 14. Spieth was walking down the 16th by the time the commentators had picked up on his score as they were confused as to what had happened as he was only -2. They then advised he had got a triple bogey down 15th prior to showing the footage of his eagle etc. nothing else stood out this much, but they dropped the ball a little. Probably as they were focussing on Rose a little more at that point.

Mistakes happen though and i'm sure co-ordination and quality will improve as they get more and more rounds under their belt.
 
Thanks for the info BritishShooting, really helpful. I want to get on board with this but it seems very messy at the moment.

I've asked GOLF TV's support twitter via DM for some clarification as to exactly what us in the UK will receive access to 'live' across the year and it's conflicting with what's been said on here and elsewhere, so I wonder if either they're not sure themselves or there has been an error that allowed people like BritishShooting to watch this weekend when in reality it should have been GEOBlocked. I'm presuming you weren't using a VPN @Britishshooting or have I misread?

Quite clear you can't pause/rewind the live feed either which is a shame.

Really hope they sort themselves out!
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Seanz25 said:
Thanks for the info BritishShooting, really helpful. I want to get on board with this but it seems very messy at the moment.

I've asked GOLF TV's support twitter via DM for some clarification as to exactly what us in the UK will receive access to 'live' across the year and it's conflicting with what's been said on here and elsewhere, so I wonder if either they're not sure themselves or there has been an error that allowed people like BritishShooting to watch this weekend when in reality it should have been GEOBlocked. I'm presuming you weren't using a VPN @Britishshooting or have I misread?

Quite clear you can't pause/rewind the live feed either which is a shame.

Really hope they sort themselves out!
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No I don't use a VPN or anything, and had no issues watching over the weekend on two different devices using 2 different web browsers but on the same internet connection.

Macbook on Safari
Imac on Google Chrome

I suppose that shows how messy it is if UK shouldn't get coverage over the weekend and I watched happy as larry or it's something they haven't fully addressed. I'm almost certain that I paused the livestream also unless I confused it with an archived video.

It's utterly pointless if it gets restricted and knocks out sat/sun play and i'll have to cancel as will many others I imagine.

I'll see how I get on this weekend and report back.
 
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