A little extreme. You would think only Tiger and Charles Howell were the only golfers on the last few holes. I know Brandt Snedeker drifted out of contention, but did you know that he birdied the 18th to move to 3rd? This is his first year, third tournament in the PGA. He was nationwide last year. Smiling even when he missed, happy just to be there. The broadcasters missed a great promo opportunity. Did Buick buy all the coverage?
Well, if you watched the televised version you would have only thought that two golfers where hitting shots (one a little while ago) and then lets watch Tiger setup, walk around, look some more and shoot. Now lets go to a commercial and several flashbacks while they walk to the next shot. There were about 60 golfers that made the cut. There were at least 5 to 6 groups playing during prime time. Can we spend more time promoting golf by showing the golfers.
Let see some of those terrible, terrible guys that only get -8, -7, or -6 once in a while. How about showing more tee offs and second shots. How about some of the stupid or messed up shots. Cover an unknown for a day, for no reason.
I kind of like to see some tips on the course strategy. We watched Tiger lay up on the 18th, the right thing to do to win, but all the announcer said was "he has an iron to lay up of course". Did they expound on the fact he was locking in the lead. Comment on how different Mickelson's strategy was last year. I realize they have only so many camera's (portable as they are), but they are under utilizing their resources.
By the way, unless you have the Golf Channel you will only get to see half of the action anyway.
I don't think you are crazy at all. I would have loved to see Brandt birdie the 18th. I know they have to cover the leaders, but to breakaway and show a little coverage of someone who is having a good day and moving up the board would be nice to see.
I wouldn't say TV is killing golf, but you make a lot of good points. I am a huge Tiger fan, but I agree, they should show some of the other players a bit more, especially a player like Snedeker who was thrilled just to be in contention.
agreed...This has been the trend for quite a while now. CBS is probably the worst network when covering Golf. I preferred to watch golf when USA had the coverage on thurs/fri...Even TNT had adequeate coverage for the early rounds of the British and other tourneys. NBC was ok, ABC ok..
Snedeker finished up after Tiger did. I turned it off then, so I'm not sure...did CBS even continue their coverage at that point?
When Tiger holed out, you would have thought the entire tournament had concluded, but there was one group still on the course. That final group was not shown or mentioned at all.
I'm guessing that they were pinched for time, but something tells me that if Tiger had been in that last group, there would've been an extension of coverage. ;)
I can't say that I disagree with much of what has been said, but I've come to expect the key players in contention getting an overwhelming majority of the coverage time. But to just completely ignore the final group finishing, imo, was very cheap to put it mildly.
First everyone dogged the out of the Golf Channel and their new venture into televising golf and now you rip into CBS. I know the Johnny Miller haters aren't going to let NBC off the hook when they join the fray.
What exactly is it that you complainers want to see and hear?
Or not see and not hear?
Now's the time to vent so we'll all know what the problems with Network Broadcasting in High Definition TV are. Who's first?
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I would have liked to have seen the end of the tourney...there were still golfers on the course behind Tiger's group.
League, you're correct about it being impossible to please everyone.
However, there were other stories involved with the tournament besides Tiger winning. That final pairing was a major part of the act, one of the guys in particular who led the tournament from day one all the way through to today. I'm sure the fans in tv land are probably more upset with it than those two guys were, but it still was cheezy to do that to them imo.
I had both the XM Radio show on (via PGATOUR.com) and the TV on today. Coverage was very, very different. I got a lot more coverage from the radio show...of course a lot of that was do to much less advertising. I also noticed that they TV coverage seemed to completely ignore the leader going into the final round (Brandt). They were mostly concerned with Tiger. The final group (two players, I think) were basically ignored.
The radio show broadcast didn't behave like this at all. They covered the whole thing without focusing on any one player.
I had to listen to the radio show to find out that Bubba didn't get the 5 fantasy golf bonus points for me for coming in third when Brandt made the last tough birdie putt on #18. In fact, I had to listen to that radio show to find out everything about how they played the last hole or two.
My guess is that the coverage is influenced by sponsor money...there isn't nearly as much of that with the new radio show.
Oops sorry, not the superbowl, but this game:
Heidi Game
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In American football, the "Heidi Game" (also sometimes called the Heidi Bowl) refers to a famous 1968 American Football League (AFL) game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders, played on November 17 in Oakland, California.
With the Jets leading 32-29 with only 65 seconds left in the game, the Raiders quickly scored 14 points to win, 43-32. Meanwhile, millions of American television viewers were unable to see Oakland's comeback. The NBC television network cut off the live broadcast in favor of a pre-scheduled airing of Heidi, a new made-for-TV version of the classic children's story
January 28th, 2007, 11:17 PM
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out of the Golf Channel and their new venture into televising golf and now you rip into CBS. I know the Johnny Miller haters aren't going to let NBC off the hook when they join the fray. 
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