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SKY'S Ryder Cup Coverage
SKY'S Ryder Cup Coverage
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Increasingly, for all the big sporting events that Sky cover, the production values seem to mandate that their coverage is the story as opposed to the event itself.
I will not be voting for the best celebration. |
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Usually like SKY coverage compared to BBC but good grief its been desperately poor.
As others have mentioned not showing all the shots live or as close to dammit is not good enough. Something that has crept into coverage in recent years but has reached a new low this time is the obsession with showing the player rather than the ball. Several times the camera has only cut to the ball AFTER the ball has pitched! Has the Channel 4 racing director been let loose. Art before information has no place in sports coverage. |
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We're unanimously agreed Sky 's coverage has been carp,also LMAO at these hologram figures walkin out beside Livingstone this anoon as he announced the Foursomes pairings,as the real action was going on behind him.
I'll be switching to US comms tommo. |
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Way too much focus on the first tee - players walking through the tunnel, high fiving with Michael Jordan etc, while live golf is going on elsewhere
My biggest gripe is not filtering out raucous cheers from up the course - while they are showing a bunch of cnts in the grandstand with stick on sideburns and moustaches, a HUGE roar goes up, meaning Europe have made a putt - that they show us 30 seconds later as 'live' - but we already know he made it |
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What US coverage are people talking about? I tuned in to the feherty channel for a bit this morning - abc maybe? - and watched feherty sitting in a studio with duval, leonard and some other dude shooting the breeze while the golf played on a tiny cutaway screen in the corner. It was like watching sky soccer centre without the "unbelievable jeff" moments
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Anyone that posts on this forum would make a far better director than those currently on Sky or the BBC
Imagine golf coming on air at 9am, 1 minute of hello's, then at 9.01 we get live coverage, with any player interviews shown in a small screen in the corner. No musical montages or repeats of yesterday's play, no showing Rory from last week - just live golf as it's happening So simple, but apparently beyond the comprehension of Sky and the BBC |
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best I've seen must write and tell them
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cluosou 27 Sep 14 20:43
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 Yeah in fairness that was lee westwood putting out after the hole was over, and they said that too |
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any chance of some live golf today?? - if the USA actually make a decent fightback sky won't dare show any coverage - we'll probably have an empty screen to view
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Another thing I don't get is why they show players on the practice range instead of live golf. The players they tend to show are the big stars, who will be getting blanket coverage when they start playing anyway
I don't really want to see them warming up as well, at the expense of other players out on the course I know it's only the odd minute here and there, but it's frustrating when you know your player is putting for birdie at the same time, and they'll probably only make time to show it if he makes the putt |
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I wish they'd drop the cliches as well during commentary - how many times do we hear a player's made a 'brave' putt? Some are more important than others, but there's nothing brave about it. Does it mean the player's a coward if he misses the same putt?
Or a player's 'unlucky' because 'if he hit it another 6 feet it would have taken the slope and been stone dead'. It's not bad luck, it's a miscalculation |
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Agree with everything said here, its been endless patriotic garbage from start to finish. Hate the way that there is a prestige game that gets all shots shown regardless of whether its looking like a landslide victory - Sky appear oblivious to the fact that points won by less flamboyant players count just the same as from the stars - with an entire channel dedicated to the event, its not rocket science to just show some f****g golf
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with all the money sky have i have no idea why every match on the 1st 2 days was not shown live under the red button. then we could opt out of Livo and the boys.
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ive just hit the red button to watch the yanks. they will show more golf, more live golf and they are not biased.
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seeing players on the practice range is great...i love to see it
but should not spoil the live coverage |
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dlarssonf my apoligies I didn't realise that the hole was lost
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Could listen to nicklaus all day, brilliant insight
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Yep me 2 just a pity we have to listen to tell them Darren sent you could really do with sub titles
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Whoever sold the rights to the Ryder Cup to Sky should be sacked. Sky should never be allowed show any golf ever again.
Do sky know there are 12 matches going on today. They have concentrated exclusively on the top 6 matches. They show an odd shot from matches 7, 8 and 9 and I have not seen a single shot from any of the 3 bottom matches. What an absolute joke this so called coverage is. The golf authorities need to do something about this and ensure Sky are never let near a golf course ever again. |
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My problem is similar to the cricket. We're given info on the screen which the commies feel they must read out to us...all the damn time!
So on screen it says Rose, 2 Down, 2nd shot 10th hole. Commie says, 'Here's Rose, he's on the 10th, he's 2 down and he's about to play his second.'  or  not sure which. |
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its 16.40 and we have not seen one shot from Victor - Sky coverage has been terrible
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We've seen more from victor chandler on the ads.
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Jimmy Walker is playing well according to sky commentators, i must have missed that bit.
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Far too much hype for me. If you listened to their commentary without knowing the scores you would think this was as close as Medinah, Brookline, Oak Hill etc etc.
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Woeful - Kaymer chipped in to win at 3.48pm, Sky show it at 3.54pm.
At the end, we went from the 18th green, to commercials, to Dubuisson getting sprayed with champagne, and Livingston said "Looks like there's been a consession" (whilst NBC had shown live Johnson's winning putt). Only The Verdict (Stirk, Dougherty, Howell) escape with any credit in this mess. |