Sky's coverage of The Open wins Sports BAFTA

[HomerJSimpson]

As a relative newbie to golf can someone please explain to me what the attraction of Peter Alliss (if there ever was any) actually was? There are bits on YouTube where he says something amusing but looking at some back in the day tournaments on there, his voice sounds like it never quite broke properly (it just sounds like a guttural croak now.) He seemed to present himself as very stockbroker belt, friend of the stars type. Was this kind of personality endearing to the British people in the 60's through the 90's. He has always struck me as a man who came into a lot of money through his work, has never quite got used to it and cant help but telling others how things were better in his day (he probably thought The Quatermass Experiment was too daring for TV) with the assumption that everyone lives, thinks and breathes the way he does. What is the appeal of the man?

Just count yourself lucky you are not faced with the nasally whine and OTT sentimentality, soppiness and groveling creature that is Jim Nantz on CBS.

Alliss was actually an accomplished player in his day and so was very close to the players of his generation and the next one along. In those days, as I suppose today too actually, there were a lot of celebrity golfers and he was friendly to them. That was accentuated by the BBC Pro Celebrity Pro-AM series he presented. He took over from Henry Longhurst as the BBC voice of golf and was the voice I grew up with when I watched TV as a youngster.

That said, I do think he's been overtaken by the modern way golf is presented and in my opinion his presenting style and views are somewhat out of touch. That said, he did a lot for the game and has also raised huge amounts for charity over the years so he's done a lot and golf in the UK has been lucky to have had him but at with everything, things move on and his time has now passed.

 

[craigstardis1976]

Alliss was actually an accomplished player in his day and so was very close to the players of his generation and the next one along. In those days, as I suppose today too actually, there were a lot of celebrity golfers and he was friendly to them. That was accentuated by the BBC Pro Celebrity Pro-AM series he presented. He took over from Henry Longhurst as the BBC voice of golf and was the voice I grew up with when I watched TV as a youngster.

That said, I do think he's been overtaken by the modern way golf is presented and in my opinion his presenting style and views are somewhat out of touch. That said, he did a lot for the game and has also raised huge amounts for charity over the years so he's done a lot and golf in the UK has been lucky to have had him but at with everything, things move on and his time has now passed.

Interesting view and I did check online and it appears he has done a lot for charity so kudos to the guy. I was aware he was an accomplished player in the 50's and 60's although from what I can see he never threatened to win a major. Was he seen back in those days as someone who made golf popular with people who perhaps had not played before? He just seems so patronizing but maybe that wasn't noticed at the time. it is all about context, I suppose and the social mores of the time he was broadcasting in.