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Absolute Sh1te.
half an hour in and besides the tee shots I've only seen about 5 other shots. Months of build up and when the golf starts they still want to give us interviews. Let us watch some golf Sky.
half an hour in and besides the tee shots I've only seen about 5 other shots. Months of build up and when the golf starts they still want to give us interviews. Let us watch some golf Sky.
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Your recent movies have been utter trash Clint. And yet you come here and back what others serve up. Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby were excellent, what happened to you since then?
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missing radar riley, just because he is an aussie, why would you not have the best on course reporter in golf, better than clark,boxall and coltard all put together.
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surely not better than Feherty
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you would have thought that covering just four matches that they could at least show most of the shots rather than trivia,interviews and sky team egos. Absolute disgrace they cant blame CBS or golf channel this time.
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I'm watching a golf channel stream - more adverts but no sh1te
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and monty free zone
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rofl I love US adverts - there was just one there that ended "Bloomberg keep your politics in New York and your hands off out guns"
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I don't think in all my time watching golf I've seen a worse day's coverage than that Sky produced today. Considering the hype they put into this the amount of golf they actually showed was disgraceful.
At no point in time were there more than eight guys on the course. Obviously not every shot can be shown live, but with that few guys you could have a reasonable stab at it. All the extra guff (interviews / comprehensive coverage of men standing about on the first tee) could be put in a split screen / in-picture box while showing the golf. The biggest problem is that they seemingly have no understanding of how matchplay golf works. Showing one shot from a group is completely irrelevant when it's totally out of context. There's no point showing us a good / bad shot if we have no idea if an opponent has hit a better / worse one. It completely ruins all the fun of matchplay golf if you can't see all the shots in order, because so much of the excitement is how you react to what your opponent or your teammate is doing. A single shot in isolation is meaningless, and just showing a putt drop (with, of course, 2 minutes of slow-motion analysis of the resulting fist-pump) without any idea of what went before or what the opponents have done is really just the laziest and most boring coverage they could produce of what they keep reminding us is one of The Greatest Sporting Events On The Planet. Hope they up their game over the weekend but I doubt it. All style over substance. |
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putting tape over mcginleys mouth would ensure much more airtime players
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This mornings efforts were lamentable. I, along with every other golf fan, do not want to see 4 golfers shaking hands and whipping up the crowd on the first tee when there are groups all ready on the course. Just record the tee shots and focus on the guys putting on the first green and teeing off the second hole.
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I hope Sky never get the TV rights for The Open Championship.
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I could not agree more. When Bjorn holed a putt on the 2nd this morning on Sky, my brother in Ireland had texted me 3 minutes earlier to say that he had holed it. We hardly saw anything this afternoon of Gmac and Victor.
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US coverage on red button is useful here but not foolproof. While it cuts to adverts a lot, it seems to be way ahead more often than not, and even when it's showing shots simultaneously with main channel they seem to be able to fill-in showing other shots where main channel just waits and catches up later.
Probably because they're not cutting away to do a segment on how the postman always delivers and refuses to lose or some such sh1t every 2 minutes. |
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Radar was there yesterday working on the celebrity match. Surely he wasn't dragged all the way to Scotland just to work on a fun 9 hole celebrity game.
I found it strange I did not hear him today. |
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Agreed. He is much better on course than any of the others.
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Rob Lee - decent fella, good anchor but a bad commentator, should be nowhere near the commentary booth
Howard Clark - how many times does he describe a shot as nearly impossible, "do well to get this on the putting surface" before golfer nonchalantly knocks it to within birdie range? Coltart hasn't much to contribute, Butch is ok...putting Darren Clarke on the commentary added nothing, all in all a terribly lame effort as most have suggested. Sky obviously assume as we're in europe we all want biased commentary, hence no radar Dont much like him as a person, but faldo knocks the socks off anything on sky |
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Darren Clarke has been very good IMHO
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love it the best
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I agree with all of the above but funny how every July there's a similar thread slating the BBC. Say it then and say it now it's far superior to Sky and hopefully they'll always have the open.
As for commentators I think Rob Lee is very good-get some sense he's researched the golfers. Not obvious this week but anytime he's on US coverage he's far ahead of Critchley and Murrary. Thought Darren Clarke was an excellent addition. Wasn't afraid to interact with the on-course reporters too to get a fuller picture of the shots. Monty.....just hit the red button when he's on! |
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SADLY - what your forgetting is part of the reason the RYDER is successful is because theres treble the people watching meaning 2/3rds ARE NOT REALLY INTO GOLF!!!
And sad as it may be, these people WANT to watch every detail of their first tee off with the crowd, i fear this is a battle we will never win. |
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If Critchley had any self respect he would have retired years ago. Makes more mistakes in an hours commentary than should be possible.
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Peter Alliss, Radar, Boxall, Ken Broon.
They would do for me. |
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Ive been watching the yank coverage under the red button, not in hd, but they show more shots live, show everyone hitting shots and i much prefer their commentators.
Sometimes they have been minutes ahead of sky and they have many less commercial breaks. In other news Faldo ripped apart by Garcia & Gmac for his "rubbish" comments over Garcia at 08 Ryder Cup. |
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I haven't turned the Radio on all day in case that irritating w*nker Inverdale is on there. I would rather read about the Ryder Cup in the newspaper on Monday than listen to that ignorant tw*t.
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I listened to the USA commentary at different times today - far superior to Murray & Monty et al who continuously give out the same drivel as in previous Ryder cups
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Oh you should have the radio on, the couple of times a year commentators can tell you the ball is 4 foot away when it is about 12 and they let you know that Fowler is just off the edge of the green and should get relief from the water hydrant?
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Is there a contractual reason why so few shots are being shown?
Focus was there on five minutes inactivity on the first tee while USA were winning the first hole with birdie. |
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Heard about the Mahan birdie on radio. Cleaned my teeth and 4 minutes later watched it "live" on sky!
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Coverage really isn't improving we get to see both european shots into 2nd green but no idea how the yank balls got where they were
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I will add my piece ... Sky coverage = Mince, doing me head in
I have heard other broadcasters are just showing nothing but golf, no adverts, no interviews ... just every single shot |
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camerawork has been bobbins. especially when the ball is in flight
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There's a good example of what I'm on about.... nothing from the Spieth / Reed match for an age, then they just showed a shot from Reed into about 20 feet. What's his playing partner doing? What are his opponents doing? Just showing single shots in isolation is completely meaningless.
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2 balls in play and they dont even show all the shots utter cnts
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Sky are almost obsessed with showning crowd reactions rather than the shots themselves.
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sky coverage is pathetic - that said listened to a bit of the BBC radio coverage earlier - ffs where do they get these people from - they certainly don't represent the majority of listeners shirley!!
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The americans show all 4 players shots both from the tee and from the fairway.
in the afternoon whilst sky were talking shyte in the studio, the yanks where showing all the shots from the tee and the fairway from the 1st foursome match. |
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the other crap thing about sky is that they will randomly go at a tee shot at a par 4 from one player. you know instantly that the tee shot is in trouble.
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*to a tee shot
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did anyone see that putt today where they showed the ball on the way to the hole and then went to another shot on a different hole
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