Macster
Journeyman Pro
I know that any golf is good golf to watch, but really,....watching the PGA Tour on Sky is just bloody painful, if it's not chat, it's Ads, or some useless drivel from the presenters,........I can't stand it. 
US golf on TV.....
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Gillespie16
Challenge Tour Pro
That's why the European Tour is MUCH MUCH BETTER!!!
JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
I know that any golf is good golf to watch, but really,....watching the PGA Tour on Sky is just bloody painful, if it's not chat, it's Ads, or some useless drivel from the presenters,........I can't stand it.
Yeh but it's a Pro-am this week so it's full of drivel.
lenghtisnteverything
Newbie
Quite agree the European Tour coverage is far superior to the PGA coverage. One minute they are with the golf channel the next CBS take over then back to the golf channel. After all this they spend more time chatting and on breaks than they do on the action, it is really annoying that out of an hour of golf you probably only watch 25 - 35 mins of the players actually playing.
The European Tour on the other hand is excellent, the coverage is second to none and the at least you get 45 mins of the action in every hour. Unfortunately the PGA coverage will never change as US TV is driven by ads and sponsors.
The European Tour on the other hand is excellent, the coverage is second to none and the at least you get 45 mins of the action in every hour. Unfortunately the PGA coverage will never change as US TV is driven by ads and sponsors.
Ethan
Money List Winner
You think it is bad on Sky? Watch it in the US sometime and you will see how much Sky improves it with their studio segments.
Gunny
Newbie
Hi all, just new to the forum and trying to work out how to watch golf on-line (sky too expensive). Seen a lot of sites offering on-line golf coverage (watch-golf-now.com) for as little as £12.99 a year. Anyone got any experience of these as usually when something sounds too good to be true it is?
clubchamp07
Journeyman Pro
25-35 minutes of play, Thats if your lucky
My big question is, DO WE NEED ALL THIS TALK FROM HAS-BEENS?
their only telling us what we have just seen or telling us what we already know........
surefire
Challenge Tour Pro
Very, very true, and even worse when you watch an event like the Masters, if you are used to being spoiled by the BBCs unbroken by advert coverage.
Macster
Journeyman Pro
Ethan: Watching ANY TV in the US is a painful frustrating experience......its CRAP.
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thecraw
Guest
Its a pain however its still better than half the crap thats on BBC and STV!
Ethan
Money List Winner
i travel to the US on business quite a bit and have seen The Masters, US Open and a load of regular Tour events on various US channels. Thursday and Friday coverage is usually on The Golf Channel or ESPN and weekend coverage on CBS, NBC etc, but the commentary teams are often the same for all the coverage.
The Masters isn't too bad, actually, because their contract with the broadcaster sets limits on the amount of advertising. I saw a US Open once (the one Cabraera won, I think) where a lot of the coverage was torture. They would come back from a commercial break, and with portentous music playing, often featuring bagpipies, show a leaderboard. The leaderboard was always arranged to put American as high up as possible. You know how convention is that if players are tied, the player who has completed the most holes goes higher? not if he is not an American.
Then they show a vintage piece about the thrilling 1973 Open when Hale Irwin overcame the mighty Joe Noname with his relentlessly dull play. That bit has more bagpipie music.
Then there is a piece on the famous moment in 1923 when Bobby Jones stopped for a whizzz in the clubhouse on his way from somewhere to somewhere else. They show a picture of a plaque over the urinal, and some of the piss was saved and is kept in a bottle in the bar.
Then Peter Kostis does a frame by frame analysis on his new super super, no really, extremely super, slow-mo camera of how Tiger Woods blocked his last drive into the grandstand.
Then they show the leaderboard again. During this time several leading Europeans have played a few holes and risen up the leaderboard but you haven't seen any of it, and its time for another commercial.
Repeat for 4 hours.
The Masters isn't too bad, actually, because their contract with the broadcaster sets limits on the amount of advertising. I saw a US Open once (the one Cabraera won, I think) where a lot of the coverage was torture. They would come back from a commercial break, and with portentous music playing, often featuring bagpipies, show a leaderboard. The leaderboard was always arranged to put American as high up as possible. You know how convention is that if players are tied, the player who has completed the most holes goes higher? not if he is not an American.
Then they show a vintage piece about the thrilling 1973 Open when Hale Irwin overcame the mighty Joe Noname with his relentlessly dull play. That bit has more bagpipie music.
Then there is a piece on the famous moment in 1923 when Bobby Jones stopped for a whizzz in the clubhouse on his way from somewhere to somewhere else. They show a picture of a plaque over the urinal, and some of the piss was saved and is kept in a bottle in the bar.
Then Peter Kostis does a frame by frame analysis on his new super super, no really, extremely super, slow-mo camera of how Tiger Woods blocked his last drive into the grandstand.
Then they show the leaderboard again. During this time several leading Europeans have played a few holes and risen up the leaderboard but you haven't seen any of it, and its time for another commercial.
Repeat for 4 hours.
Yerman
Journeyman Pro
I know that any golf is good golf to watch, but really,....watching the PGA Tour on Sky is just bloody painful, if it's not chat, it's Ads, or some useless drivel from the presenters,........I can't stand it.
+1
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thecraw
Guest
Whats wrong with bagpipes?
Leftie
Tour Winner
A rhetorical question if ever I saw one
Farneyman
Tour Winner
I watch golf online quite a bit, and some football matches.
I use the following site
http://www.myp2p.eu/index.php?part=sports
This is all free. I pick sport of choice then find a stream that works well. Some will be better than others you just need a bit of patience. I avoid having to download anything and watch them on mediaplayer which I have on pc. Have a play aboit and see what you think.
Welcome to the forum.
ps http://www.everythingon.tv/channel/view/sky-sports-1-1
thats the link Im using for the golf just now.
Ethan
Money List Winner
Apart from the hideous noise, nothing.
But US TV seems to think they evoke the spirit of golf.
Gunny
Newbie
thanks buddy, much appreciated.
culrossblue
Hacker
The best idea is to record it on Sky+, let the wife watch what she wants or like me watch 'match of the day' then send her to bed wnd then watch the golf, speeding up all adverts and bullshit. Sorted! 
