Annual Gripe about Masters TV Coverage

Nay lad. It just adds to the excitement of the best golf tournament of them all.

That Georgia on my mind jingle is already beginning to grate.

I understand your sentiment - but wearing my "traders" hat - it's a pain.

(Have other issues with it - but not on topic - I will concede back 9 on Sunday is generally great viewing)

A bonanza for TV rights

A dullard for viewers
5 minutes of play followed by soft music with scenes of Hogan's bridge and Azalea's.
Followed by various Golf discount ads; Minimum 10 ads
Back to the golf a little mini 6 player scoreboard bottom of screen followed by more soft music followed by 2 shots from someone. followed by another 11 Ads from various golf companies and that's only Saturday.

Sunday back 9 takes 2 hours 15 minutes to play but the telecast somehow stretches to 4 hours ???

Golf a game best viewed with volume on Mute.

I wonder who is responsible for poor coverage......TV companies or the Masters' committee?

If it's the committee then golfing bodies should tell them to move in with the times or scrap The Masters of the Major List and make it a regular PGA tour event.

Gotta admit they're pretty azaleas though

I LOVE IT

same shiite every year.the course is looking better than its ever done.

is they amen corner coverage this year on bbc or sky

Be prepared Sky say live from 7 today but I bet we are "not allowed" to see any continuous live play till at least 8.

Sky have amen corner, 15/16 holes and "featured groups" on red button tho

Ski-Wiz     11 Apr 13 07:11 
I wonder who is responsible for poor coverage......TV companies or the Masters' committee?

If it's the committee then golfing bodies should tell them to move in with the times or scrap The Masters of the Major List and make it a regular PGA tour event.

Deary me.

It is what it is. I tend to agree with wallflower from a betting point of view. The coverage is far better than it once was.

player/palmer/Nicklaus honourary tee off will kill the first 90 mins

I am in two minds about the coverage. For selfish reasons I would like to be able to see every shot of whoever I want, a nice red button to follow whichever group you wanted would be great.

But as a invitation only competition, why should the members have to bow to everything broadcasters want? It spells the end of doing things in a civilized way.
If they followed footballs example, they would change the timetable to suit Asia and change the competition dates so it matched with whatever the Qatari's wanted.
And we would have a Monday night play-off under floodlights.

I think that keeping coverage restricted adds to the exclusivity of the event and makes attendance there even more special for spectators.

yeah amen red button is good

It all happens back 9 Sunday anyway

let's see how exclusive it is in ten years when they are charging you £15 a day on a special ppv masters channel

it's a money pit for them

What times the red button coverage start this afternoon ??

Plzzzzzzz 

it's on DAY 1 thread

Thx's "xMONEYx" 

I see that the 'red button' coverage is HD only for some unknown reason, as if the coverage isn't bad enough already.

Apr 11, 2013 -- 12:56PM, Captain Christy wrote:

I see that the 'red button' coverage is HD only for some unknown reason, as if the coverage isn't bad enough already.

Personally I feel until you get rid of the redneck old boys club with their deep south attitudes then you won't see any real impact in coverage what I actually object to is "paying" for hand me down coverage of golf via sky sports they gave us all the hype as to they would give us brilliant coverage of this that and tother when in fact we get partial coverage of most of the pga events dependent on when US channels are on air OFcom should insist that if they are providing a subscription coverage that they actually get cameras out their to cover it my thoughts on the matter

Masters.com will stream two Featured Group channels during Thursday’s first round of the Masters Tournament. These live channels will broadcast two select groupings beginning on No. 10 on all Tournament round days. Additional groupings will be shown after the earlier scheduled groupings complete play.

Thursday

Featured Group No. 1 Lineup:

9:39 a.m.: Charl Schwartzel, Webb Simpson, Peter Hanson

12:13 p.m.*: Ernie Els, Steve Stricker, Nick Watney

1:41 p.m.*: Rory McIlroy, Keegan Bradley, Freddie Jacobson

Featured Group No. 2 Lineup:

9:50 a.m.: Zach Johnson, K.J. Choi, Graeme McDowell

12:24 p.m.*: Ben Crenshaw, Matteo Manassero, Tianlang Guan

1:52 p.m.*: Jason Dufner, Matt Kuchar, Bill Haas

* Scheduled to follow the previous group’s completion of play.



Friday

Featured Group No. 1 Lineup:

9:39 a.m.: Angel Cabrera, Sergio Garcia, Adam Scott

12:13 p.m.*: Mike Weir, Lee Westwood, Jim Furyk

1:41 p.m.*: Tiger Woods, Luke Donald, Scott Piercy

Featured Group No. 2 Lineup:

9:50 a.m.: Fred Couples, Dustin Johnson, Branden Grace

12:24 p.m.*: Brandt Snedeker, Ryo Ishikawa, Justin Rose

1:52 p.m.*: Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, Padraig Harrington

* Scheduled to follow the previous group’s completion of play.

Agree guru1

- something has to be done about golf coverage in general - its 2013, and it is generally completely f*ckin' unwatchable from a betting perspective - needs a revolution of sorts.

I stopped watching golf until back nine of Sunday and only then if there is no Tennis, Cricket or NFL on at the same time.

sky show more simulated golf than proper golf these days.see them having a tournament on the simulator

I totally agree , it is dross ,more than half the rounds are almost over before so called live coverage starts

all this nicklaus love in heard so many times how he won all his green jackets.its getting to the stage that i know every shot he played and i was standing next to him while he put the green jacket on

well that didnot take long never seen the course looking better

thinking the same nellie..........monty, butch and livingstone are wetting themselves in the studio

Wait until Peter Alliss gets on there .... O My the flowers look blooming !!

I think the magnolias looked more translucent last year tbh.

my pics are friggin miles behind