The 150th Open

[RRidges]

Well apart from broadcasting the two biggest sporting events with World Cup and Olympics , plus of course Euros etc etc

The BBC have to cater for all - not just golf fans , football fans , rugby fans etc

They don’t have “dedicated” Sports channels

We pay £100plus quid a year and that needs to stretch to cover everything including the radio , online etc

The Open isn’t “too big” for them - it was a sporting event that was “protected” meaning it could only be on terrestrial Telly but as soon as that was removed the R&A were always selling the rights to Sky or BT Sport because they could afford to outbid the BBC

I’m not a fan of sky but if I want to watch the sport I need to pay the subscription- and Sky do a very good job of broadcasting it

Plenty of their content is being shown on IPlayer. I can imagine sports like Golf could be fed to that medium. But that would take considerable investment, which is not something the BBC is doing currently - quite the contrary in fact. I far prefer Sky's coverage, which I have when in my London base, to CBS's and that of other other channels here in US.

 

[Jimaroid]

Great day. Sleep. Repeat.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

Just got back home after leaving at 4am yesterday morning.

A fantastic day.

 

[RRidges]

I wonder why Cam Smith puts a line on his ball and then doesn't use it to line up his putts?
Putt on 16 and the line was perpendicular to his putt line....

Purely for identification?

 

[Captainron]

@Jimaroid and I are very much looking forward to the last day

 

[Jimaroid]

@Jimaroid and I are very much looking forward to the last day

Lucky you’re not ginger, it’ll brown off.

 

[Smiffy]

Just watching the round 3 highlights on iPlayer, had to smile when Ken Brown was talking about a 7mph wind being a "one club wind" and a 20mph one being "three clubs"...
What does that make the 40mph winds at Cooden last year??? ?????

 

[CountLippe]

I wonder why Cam Smith puts a line on his ball and then doesn't use it to line up his putts?
Putt on 16 and the line was perpendicular to his putt line....

I believe, amongst pros anyway, the line is mainly used for aiming the tee shot. Amazing you don’t see them faffing about on the tee a lot.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I believe, amongst pros anyway, the line is mainly used for aiming the tee shot. Amazing you don’t see them faffing about on the tee a lot.

It's about the one shot they hit relatively quickly. Let's hope they don't go pedantic on that as well.

 

[Mel Smooth]

Lots of red numbers on the board already this morning, should be quite a battle later, winning score will definitely be well into the -20’s

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

With me finding myself so often thinking ‘how on earth are they going to play this?’ I’m really enjoying seeing the top pros having to be creative; sometimes succeeding - often brilliantly, and sometimes failing badly…and then having to be creative or pragmatic recovering from their mistakes and misfortunes. Really interesting.

 

[Deleted member 3432]

With me finding myself so often thinking ‘how on earth are they going to play this?’ I’m really enjoying seeing the top pros having to be creative; sometimes succeeding - often brilliantly, and sometimes failing badly…and then having to be creative or pragmatic recovering from their mistakes and misfortunes. Really interesting.

I think the fact it's so dry and firm has saved the Old Course from being taken apart. If the greens had any real moisture they would have destroyed it.

Some great short game skills on display rather just just automatically pulling out the lob wedge like the other 51 weeks of the year.

 

[Pin-seeker]

https://www.golfchannel.com/news/20...rick-im-not-really-fan-firm-bouncy-old-course

 

[IanM]

Lowest score wins. I'm not bothered by what the actual number is, unless the cut was 6 under!

That's links golf. Some years it'll be easy, some years will be brutal.

On the PGA Tour, they follow the sun. It's very similar every week.

 

[North Mimms]

Sky have decided to follow Armitage and Justin Thomas but I'd like to see a bit more of other players too

 

[Deleted member 29109]

Hoping for a nice 64 from Rory and him disappearing off into the distance.

And no one on the forum ever complaining about 20 under winning on the PGA tour again.

 

[North Mimms]

Sky have decided to follow Armitage and Justin Thomas but I'd like to see a bit more of other players too

Thank goodness they've finished now.
How much of Burns' 8 under round did we see?

 

[Blue in Munich]

Can someone please break McGinley’s microphone?

 

[Billysboots]

Can someone please break McGinley’s microphone?

Or insert it somewhere. He just loves the sound of his own voice, doesn’t he?

 

[Blue in Munich]

Or insert it somewhere. He just loves the sound of his own voice, doesn’t he?

If it was inserted where the sun doesn't shine he might talk less