There is a commercial every 2 MINUTES ON THE GOLF CHANNEL!!! ITS OUT OF CONTROL!!!! AND WHEN ITS NOT A COMMERCIAL, ITS RICH LERNER DOING A STUPID LITTLE USELESS SEGMENT, OR FALDO WALKING UP A GODAMN HILL TO SHOW HOW STEEP IT IS!!!!!!!

JUST SHOW THE DAMN GOLF AND SHUTUP!!!!

i would love to hear your opinions; do you enjoy when they break to show kelly tilman and faldo talking into the camera? or some other useless segment???

ITS CALLED THE GOLF CHANNEL! SHOW GOLF!!!

Don't forget that they have all that time to fill and only like 30 guys playing. Got to do something for 4 hours a night

I have enjoyed the coverage so far like it was said pretty limited amounts of guys, a credit to the golf channel for keeping things interesting!!

ya but its consistent with all golf channel broadcast, and 30 players is plenty of golf action! i would understand if it was the final in a match play event, but these are some of the best players in the world, and its the middle of winter AND I WANNA SEE SOME GOLF DAMNIT!!!

but seriously, the golf channel sucks; i would rather see mtv or the discovery channel doing the production.

In general, I agree, but the Faldo/hill segment did add something. The long drive on that hole on Saturday was 242 yards (I think); now we know why.

WW

ok, maybe the stupid hill thing added something..... but what about the last clip of mark rolfing and faldo driving around in the benz, and then showing an old photo of faldo in a speedo sailing? WTF DID THAT ADD?? i guess if you enjoy watching kelly tilman and nick faldo giggle about semi-homosexual photos it added alot...


or maybe im just a sour, grizzled old man and want to play golf right now, but i cant because there is a foot of snow on the ground.

if you don't like it, don't watch it. that's what I do. the golf channel has horrible golf coverage.

Horrible, HORRIBLE coverage. I have been cheering for Angel Cabrera and they've shown him 4 or 5 times in the last 2 days. And they don't show the players that are more than 2 shots back...

Ha ha.I agree the coverage is pretty crappy.But,what other choice do we have?

The only reason I'm hating it right now is because the golf channel has stopped working! I'm trying to watch live feeds on PGA tour's website. Guess it's time to get on the phone with comcast.

I hate it cause it's in crappy SD (standard definition) which is horrible on an LCD TV with HD resolution.

Golf Channel's coverage is pretty poor compared to weekend coverage by the networks. I'm sure it's due mostly to lack of funds compared to NBC, ABC etc.

Some of my favs:
Big Break
Golf Central
Playing Lessons



Some horrible shows:
Fore inventors only
19th hole
Golf with style
The Approach <--- worst ever

Time Warner just added Versus/Golf HD in my area last week. I was so excited till i turned it on and it was BULL riding. Back to SD.

if you dont like it find another contract, i dont remember how many years the golf channel contracted for but good luck finding other coverage on Thursday, friday

ya, the big break and playing lessons is good, but everything else kinda blows a**. but, i have to admit, i enjoyed the playoff today, and gotta admit i was rooting for stricker... owell, it was entertaining nonetheless.

Yeah but we only ever saw about 5-6 that were at the top of the leaderboard.

To bad if you were trying to see what anyone else was up to, what equip people were playing with the new changes between players and OEMs. Tried to spot what Badds was hitting, he was just off the pace for at least 2 days- never saw him at all.

Sure Mike Weir was leading after two rounds etc, but the coverage just kept repeating what he had done etc and ignored the rest of the field

In 10 minutes of live coverage you are likely to see 4 or 5 shots.
I tune in to see the players, not the announcers and certainly not the
commentators. Even though I like Nick Faldo, way too much time is
spent on what I guess is justifing his salary. Back to golf (the players)
please.

DVR baby...

I only had the chance to watch the Front 9 (of the final round) yesterday. I didn't see Mike Weir until the 8th hole, and it's only because they were showing Nick Watney from a camera at the back of the green, where Mike happened to be standing. I mean Mike was only 3 back (-11) at the time, but they only showed (-12 to the lead)...what can you do. He may have got more coverage near the end, as he got closer to the lead. I didn't see it, so I'm only surmising he may have got a bit of coverage. If that was Tiger at -11, 3 shots back playing along side Watney, you know TGC would have showed him every second they possibly could. You probably wouldn't have even known who was playing with Tiger,if that was the case. I'd like to have seen more coverage of everyone too. Lets face it, people who watch golf on TV, have the golf bug for sure. Instead of these "stupid segments" that add no value for the viewer, why not ask the Pro's (post-round) what changes they made...swing wise, equipment wise, whatever. Something relevant! You would have thought when TGC signed on for 15 years of coverage they could have built a better team, instead of just promoting in-house. Faldo can stay, dump the rest.

Of the golf that was shown, I thought it was a really pulsating final round. You had Chopra going low on the front and looking like he had it wrapped up, Hunter Mahan making a -9 64 look a positively awful score, Stricker charging at the end, Ames not needing his putter for like a half hour with two tap in birds etc

YES YES YES! I just don't get the 19th hole or the approach. both really, really terrible. I suppose there are only so many shows you can come up with about golf. . .but I'd wrather watch the cool old stuff like shells wonderful world or top 3 golf.

My biggest complaint is all the infomercials. Atleast show re-runs of something or other

"These commercials are brought to you by The Golf Channel. Please stay tuned we'll be right back to our commercials."

you should think your self lucky the golf channel uk went off air a couple of weeks ago i didnt realise how much i watched it until it was gone. No more big break for me

Change the channel!

The same thing is happening to the Golf Channel that happened to ESPN. It's becoming less about Golf and more about BS that no one cares about!

Perhaps everyone complaining on this message board should take a few minutes and send an email to TGC and tell them what you think. And remember kids, your letter will be taken more seriously if you grammar and spell check.


http://www.thegolfchannel.com/core.aspx?page=70000

Let's face it - it is poor. At least compared to when USA or TNT used to do the Thurs/Friday segments (my only caveat to that statement is when Bobby Clampett was on -they should Botox his jaws to get him to shut up). I think in the long run if GC doesn't significantly upgrade their on air talent (Faldo is the exception) if will ultimately hurt the PGA tour. We are only watching because we don't have other vialble choices. BTW - their European tour coverage with Renton and co I find enjoyable. They need to figure out how to replicate that over here.

Yeah, their infomercials definitely drive me nuts.

Especially when I call in sick to work and spend the day at home- turn on the "trusty" Golf Channel, and you get nothing but garbage. I understand you gotta earn some $ from advertising, but they should come up with something more creative and more relevant than BS infomercials.

WHAT??? You guys don't know television.... I'd take Chuck Norris and the Total Gym over re-runs of Tiger any day! Chucks a legend, Tiger's a legend in the making.

Take Chuck Norris out of the picture and you still got some great golf information - "How to hit the ball further and straighter in just a couple of swings" "The hybrids that are so great they were given the name of the game's best" "The only wedges that have incorporated new technology in years" and who could forget the "3 wheeled trike" for golf fitness....

geeez!!!!

I have noticed the commercials are playing longer also.

If I have to listen to that stupid "It feels just like it Should" song one more time...

Thanks Chief....

Hahahaha


"Must be some kind, miracle"

Ive been watching off and on during todays coverage....

some thoughts....


I love when they they train the camera on the someone in their pre-putt routine. We watch him read the putt from every angle. Watch him address it. Watch him practice putt. He sets the putter head behind the ball. He takes one last look at his line. He takes the putter back....


...they break away to Nick Faldo and Rich Lerner talk about George Lopez.




And just a bit ago.....they announced they were cutting away to someone's shot. We looked at a bush for 35 seconds. No swing. No player. Just a bush. Then they went back to George Lopez.

Thank God for DVR!

It's going to have the same impact it did with ESPN. People have a nature of complaining. If don't have this to complain about, they'll find something else.

It's obviously that TGC has either enough interested viewers or they're alll lazy like us.

Works for me....?

What do you want me to say? I don't really have money to go to PGA events... so I have to watch it on T.V...... It would just be pretty cool if they could not do stupid things, like show 2 pros and 10 amateurs between commercial breaks...

Wait a second... wait a second. I actually like 19th hole and The Approach if just to get a kick out of what those yokels think. I find it entertaining anyway.... but I DO wholeheartedly agree with the Fore Inventors only and Golf with Style.. yeesh what are they smoking when they made these shows?

Originally when I read this thread I thought it was about the GOLF CHANNEL'S commercials. Isn't anyone else sick of seeing 'softitude of the wang' commercials? Seriously is this just in Canada or what? I know I'm in my late 30's but I don't need to see two old people trying to get their freak on while they get an unnannounced visit from the grand children! PUh-Lease... enough of the boner meds. I get it already! Yes, I know there is a pill out there for guys with softitude of the wang. I don't need a 5 minute reminder through a round of golf.

Absolutely Brutal!!! I couldn't believe they had that crappy song at the start of the "Mercedes" again. Some country hack I've never heard of standing on a sailboat singing...
Yeah...that has so much to do with Golf!

I got the correlation last year...TGC finally televising Golf. Wow...what a concept.

Wow Rich Lerner is one of the worst broadcasters i have ever listened to. He doesn't even follow the golf he just rambles on about random S***. Today he went off into a tangent about Godfather I Vs. Godfather II. WTF?!!! I never thought i would catch myself saying this but BRING KELLY BACK!!!

I SEE THEY ARE GOING TO DO 2 WEEKS OF TIGER. WHAT ABOUT TIGER HAVENT WE SEEN OR
KNOW ABOUT.THEY DID EVERY DAY A MONTH AGO .THEY KISS HIS A$$ WAY TO MUCH
AND AM A TIGER FAN

I am officially putting a curse on whoever it was that posted about how they hated Lerner saying "do that!"

I hadn't ever noticed it before that post, and now it seems like he's saying it every 5 minutes.

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but send Lerner back to his rambling 3 minute soliloquies on nothing (but not funny like Seinfeld) while standing in front of the clubhouse. At least when those come on, I can fast forward my DVR or, if I'm watching live, go to the bathroom and try to pass a kidney stone. Either of those options is less painful than his play by play commentary.

That, or let Nick Faldo b!tch slap him on camera every time he doesn't get one of Faldo's jokes.

Either one of those would work for me.

spinner...I think that was me in another thread. He's been saying that for years...and it's not only since they started Thursday & Friday coverage last year. He's simply brutal!! Rules at GolfWRX prohibit personal attacks on fellow members...referring to your "curse". I've been a member of GolfWRX longer than you have, therefore I have seniority.
Thus, I have the power to supersede you in every realm possible.
I have two words for you...TAHT OD

Rich Lerner is actually pretty cool in person.

How about Jerry Foltz's interview of Keith Jackson today at the Bob Hope:

Foltz: "Did you ever think about covering golf?"

Jackson: "I did. For 9 years."

You guys are forgetting the absolute worst show they do, one that is a complete advertising sham.....

Golf Talk brought to you by NetJets. A commercial that disguises itself as a show while they interview some Champions Tour has been on a private "NetJets" plane. To top it off, they have to do a segment on how much Netjets means to them and their career.

Torture...pure torture. Whoever agreed to that needs to be taken to a back alley and......oh never mind.

Putting a curse on another member..???

I can't believe anyone would DO THAT.

Right you are fine sir.