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It's kind of hit and miss.

I like Azinger, but I'm really am glad to have Judy Rankin and Peter Ailiss back, they are my highlight of golf on TV and I never realized how much I'd miss them (especially Rankin) until this year.

It could be worse. Remeber the U.S. Open this year w/ ESPN's Chris Berman?

It seems like there is a commercial every 5 minutes!

it's better than that behind the scenes stuff that they were doing with the John Deere last week. like i care what the guys behind the scenes do i just want to watch golf! that was the worst!

Clampett is he worst! The way he fawns over Tiger is obscene.

I am with you on this....Clampett was all over Tiger's jock...."oh it's such a good swing" and Tiger hit it in the bunker....Clampett should be thrown off the tower..........Tell Faldo to hurry up and miss the cut so he can get his butt back in the chair and call golf........

Haha, you're right. I should count my blessings.

Thanks for the reminder.

Do they share camera shots with the European coverage of the event?

He is terrible, he said the best part of Tiger's game was his driving---geez

I'd rather hear Clampett than

"And we now take a break from all the live action for a 7+ minute story on something irrelevant from Jimmy Roberts."

Who loves Tiger more, Kelly Tighlman or Bobby Clampett? I mean go ahead and cancel all upcoming tournaments and give the next 20 majors to him. I will say that I love Paul Azinger. What he said about Sabbatini actions with Ben Crane at Congressional a few years ago were classic!

best post of the year

To their credit, I believe they get their video feeds from the BBC, but yea lots of commercials. When I am dedicated enough to make a point to watch live golf at 7am EST, I don't want commericials!

Agreed. Jimmy Roberts kills me.

Excellent point!

I remember watching the British as a kid and the picture would be very grainy, so at least that is gone.

What I don't like is the thing that goes across the screen when they go from player to player.

For once here in the UK we had it real good!

Full golf coverage on the BBC From 9.00am to 7.30pm 10hrs live and no commercials!

then a highlights program for an hour and half!

It was fantastic!!!!

brooky333

Guys watch the webcast and tv, but have the tv on mute!!!!


Much better!!!

Thats the way to go

where is the webcast at?

google open golf, find the Open offical site.

FYI - the BBC coverage starts at 9.00 am UK and finishes at 7.15 pm UK, with not one commercial during that time. They will also show every stroke that Tiger hits.

but not every stroke the leaders hit

No actually the beeb is really good at showing you the whole of the field rather than spending all their time following Tiger. Obviously if Tiger is in the lead (and he normally is!) they show a lot of him but thankfully they rarely waste our time with Tiger walking between shots which some other broadcasters seem to be in love with. If your coverage is 90% Tiger, that's because they've replaced the shots of everyone else with adverts and those idiot talking heads.

I'm working from home today so it's on in the 'background'! God I love that there are no adverts...

What get's me CRAZY is this: I have an hour lunch. I got to the local bar to watch an hour of TNT coverage and I get stuck with a stupid At the Turn retrospective of the 1865 British Open for 30 effing minutes! I swear I was going to throw my beer mug at the tv.

If you poll EVERY golf fan watching, guaranteed there is not 1 person who cares about this crap. I just don't get why networks continue to shove this stuff down our throats, when all we want once a year is to watch golf shots.

http://www.sportsline.com/golf/britishopen/video

My original comment, although accurate, was intended to be slightly sarcastic, given that US Tour coverage shows Tiger's every move, but you will see all the leaders' shots too on the BBC.

thank you !!!!

It takes a few minutes for people to get into position and get the next group of people ready for the next couple hours. You should have let them know you were going to be at lunch drinking beer, maybe they would have turned that crap off.

Personally it gave me time to go get some stuff done around the house.

Thanks a lot!

did anyone see the old couple getting a little touchy feely yesterday? the old lady grabbing her old mans ars was hilarious.

At least it looked like after the first day they got rid of that stupid Wii game boy noise everytime they switched pictures. That might have been BBC but boy was that irritating almost as irritating as 5 minutes worth of commercials every two shots.

HAHA, i saw that... halarious... must have switched to the wrong camera. Did anyone else see that?

Neither, Mike Tirico.