Sky Sports Golf

FixdePitchmark

I have to say - (only for the adds)

But Sky put on a good show now. I like the instructional stuff and examples.

You are seeing guys who have and are coaching at the highest level of the game. Even coaches of Major winners.

TheGolfer01

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

I have to say - (only for the adds)

But Sky put on a good show now. I like the instructional stuff and examples.

You are seeing guys who have and are coaching at the highest level of the game. Even coaches of Major winners.

Funny that, because I'd have to say the main reason I don't watch golf (bar the the Open and the Masters on BBC) is because of Sky's "one size fits all" approach and the same pundits regurgitating the same cliches week in week out, making all events blend blandly one into another, and not to mention the ads every 2 minutes.
But hey horses for courses I suppose.

The wonderfish

Generally like what Sky do with the coverage, like Dennis Pugh and Simon Holmes especially when they do drills with the simulator. Mark Roe is also getting better.

However the add breaks are a pain but thats the yanks and their "pause for a message from our sponsors" mullarkey, real shame but nothing sky can do with that i suppose.

This weeks AT&T has been probably the worst tournamen, usual amount of add breaks but throw in the constant showing and discussing of the "celebrity" golfer rather than real golfers and it has been a real struggle to keep watching it, cant wait for this comp to be over to be honest....

Speak Now

The coaches are the best thing about their coverage. The current struggling pros that they offer airtime to dont usually offer much. Oliver Wilson i'm looking at you....
Goes to show how hard it is to stay around the top in golf, as a ryder cup and worlds top 50 player in his 20's not many would have expected him to be without status and sitting in a tv studio at 32.

FixdePitchmark

TheGolfer01 wrote: »

Funny that, because I'd have to say the main reason I don't watch golf (bar the the Open and the Masters on BBC) is because of Sky's "one size fits all" approach and the same pundits regurgitating the same cliches week in week out, making all events blend blandly one into another, and not to mention the ads every 2 minutes.
But hey horses for courses I suppose.

I was like that before - but if you don't watch you don't know. Has improved and they change it around more now - testing out recent pros.

The technical stuff is excellent - like a free lesson.


I hate Sky but.

FixdePitchmark

The wonderfish wrote: »

Generally like what Sky do with the coverage, like Dennis Pugh and Simon Holmes especially when they do drills with the simulator. Mark Roe is also getting better.

However the add breaks are a pain but thats the yanks and their "pause for a message from our sponsors" mullarkey, real shame but nothing sky can do with that i suppose.

This weeks AT&T has been probably the worst tournamen, usual amount of add breaks but throw in the constant showing and discussing of the "celebrity" golfer rather than real golfers and it has been a real struggle to keep watching it, cant wait for this comp to be over to be honest....

I hate celebrity and tax exile golf.

FixdePitchmark

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

The coaches are the best thing about their coverage. The current struggling pros that they offer airtime to dont usually offer much. Oliver Wilson i'm looking at you....
Goes to show how hard it is to stay around the top in golf, as a ryder cup and worlds top 50 player in his 20's not many would have expected him to be without status and sitting in a tv studio at 32.

Yes a bit sad when you see a young lad who should be out playing. But, it can give you a very modern, with it view, (ollie) is poor.

Was happy to see David Howell - back out going well.

Speak Now

Any hope Diana Dougherty will come back? Best presenter they had, knew her golf without trying to be too smart arsed.

Lee and Livingstone are typical of the sensationalism sky stuff. Also cant stand the cliches from Ewan Murray and poor old Bruce is past it.

I like Howard Clark, Tim Barter is your typical sky interviewer (Ignorant), Richard Boxall isn't bad and i cant believe O'Reily has grown on me, i think he toned down the nonsense a bit.

Sarah Stirk is a grower

I wish there was a sky golf channel with seperate subscribtion though, dont like paying over the odds just to cover premier league wages :mad:

saintastic

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

The current struggling pros that they offer airtime to dont usually offer much. Oliver Wilson i'm looking at you....

He has a wrist injury and is only on Sky while he's injured which I think is around a couple of months.

Also, on a separate note, I thought the comparison between the new equipment and the old equipment on the simulator was very good.

Glencarraig

I would love Sarah Stirk to check out the flex in my shaft !!

Speak Now

saintastic wrote: »

He has a wrist injury and is only on Sky while he's injured which I think is around a couple of months.

He is struggling though, hasn't finished top 120 in race to Dubai last 2 seasons. Still plenty young to come back though, what is it? 9 runner up finishes with out a win?

saintastic

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

He is struggling though, hasn't finished top 120 in race to Dubai last 2 seasons. Still plenty young to come back though, what is it? 9 runner up finishes with out a win?

Yeah, he's definitely struggling on tour. I wasn't sure if you were suggesting that he is doing Sky because he is struggling and not because he is injured.

nomunnnofun

Glencarraig wrote: »

I would love Sarah Stirk to check out the flex in my shaft !!

Brilliant, love the way you got that in there. Stephen Fry would applaud you.:rolleyes:

FixdePitchmark

nomunnnofun wrote: »

Brilliant, love the way you got that in there. Stephen Fry would applaud you.:rolleyes:

I dont think he would be into her.

Wombatman

Glencarraig wrote: »

I would love Sarah Stirk to check out the flex in my shaft !!

She plays off 7 I think.

Jamie Donaldson talking about his mindset before a drive the last day was good.

Roe and Oosterhuis can be hard going at times.

But I'd take Sky any day over Feherty and McCord

Johnny_Fontane

If you love watching golf, you have to have Sky. Simples. No point even having the conversation, cos you are going to be sitting there glued at 11pm every Sunday night!

For Paws

+1 on the advantage of Sky over CBS & The Golf Channel coverage.

Is Sarah Stirk the big guy in the skirt ?

Bring back Diana D.

Roe is particularly wearing and Oosty contributes feck all.

Lee can be a pain, but he's been out there (on tour) recently enough to still be able to pass on the Pro's view.

Always really happy to see Denis Pugh on the show. Seems like the perfect teaching pro, wonder how much he charges per lesson ?

Creasy_bear

The guy that does the European tour (Australian)?? What an absolute wanker. I remember he said about a player that had just won a tournament (Soren Kjeldsen)" he was a terrible striker and wouldn't pay the entrance fee to watch him". Something along those lines. Without doubt, the biggest wanker there is. Then you have Wilson, stumbling through every sentence. John E. Morgan (think that's his name) looks like he's been on an absolute bender since the last time he was on.
We can look forward to seeing that weasel faced turd on Thursday.

Don't get me started on the yanks.

Bring back Di!!!

Edit - his name isn't John E.Morgan

basill

I actually think their golf coverage is very poor on the US tour.

For a company that has turnover of £6,791 million you would think that they could use their purchasing power to tell the US networks that they want unadulterated feed for the entire tournament. Its not like the US broadcasters turn off the cameras when they go to an advert break. Just get the feed direct to the UK and put on your own commentators. Problem solved. It will also keep the US PGA happy as they want as many viewers tuned into their "product" as well. They don't want us all switching off which is what happens at the moment.

Wombatman

The wonderfish wrote: »

However the add breaks are a pain but thats the yanks and their "pause for a message from our sponsors" mullarkey, real shame but nothing sky can do with that i suppose.
....

I chip balls off a shag pile onto the couch during the ads. It's also nice to have a club nearby to grip and swing during the Shot Centre bits.

For Paws

Surely you can't mean Wayne 'Radar' Riley !

A Prince among on-course commentators, his quiet & reticent musings an inspiration to the enthralled viewer.

Bring back Di

and bring on Cara Robinson from Golfing World while you're at it !

saintastic

For Paws wrote: »

Surely you can't mean Wayne 'Radar' Riley !

A Prince among on-course commentators, his quiet & reticent musings an inspiration to the enthralled viewer.

+1 - I'm a big fan of Radar.

For Paws

saintastic wrote: »

+1 - I'm a big fan of Radar.

I was being (a little) sarcastic there. Radar can be a right old pain in the koalas sometimes, but as the saying goes 'He's so bad , he's good'

Aidric

Creasy_bear wrote: »

The guy that does the European tour (Australian)?? What an absolute wanker. I remember he said about a player that had just won a tournament (Soren Kjeldsen)" he was a terrible striker and wouldn't pay the entrance fee to watch him". Something along those lines. Without doubt, the biggest wanker there is. Then you have Wilson, stumbling through every sentence. John E. Morgan (think that's his name) looks like he's been on an absolute bender since the last time he was on.
We can look forward to seeing that weasel faced turd on Thursday.

Don't get me started on the yanks.

Bring back Di!!!

Edit - his name isn't John E.Morgan

Lol. Healthy amount of bile in that post.

Radar is an unadulterated mong and Lee isn't far behind him. Bruce Critchley should be put out to pasture, just a bitter old man.

I like David Livingstone on presenting duties and Murray is a good journalist. Tim Barter is abrupt but a good interviewer and Howard Clark offers good analysis.

So in summary there is more good than bad.

TGoodall

Like their coverage, good to get a break from the US commentators repeating the same old bull. At least they head back to the studio for every second ad break so that helps.

But the AT&T was a bit of a pain. Apart from watching rich American CEOs making double bogies while real golfers are ignored Sky seemed obsessed with the 18th. Every time they went back to the studio it was them in the shot centre hitting another tee shot on the 18th or another fly-by of the hole. Seemed like they bought the rights to just that hole on the simulator.

newport2

basill wrote: »

For a company that has turnover of £6,791 million you would think that they could use their purchasing power to tell the US networks that they want unadulterated feed for the entire tournament. Its not like the US broadcasters turn off the cameras when they go to an advert break. Just get the feed direct to the UK and put on your own commentators. Problem solved. It will also keep the US PGA happy as they want as many viewers tuned into their "product" as well. They don't want us all switching off which is what happens at the moment.

Ye. Don't see why they can't be just fed the footage from the cameras and do their own editing. That way we'd get to see more coverage of
European players in the tournaments too.

soundsham

Sky plus is the only way to watch it,cut straight to the golf,all the other sh1t is tedious

Set record for 8 and start watching 80 - 90 minutes later

PARlance

TGoodall wrote: »

But the AT&T was a bit of a pain....Sky seemed obsessed with the 18th. Every time they went back to the studio it was them in the shot centre hitting another tee shot on the 18th or another fly-by of the hole. Seemed like they bought the rights to just that hole on the simulator.

They cut to the shot centre as Snedeker finished on 17th.

"NOW... Lets have a look at what lies ahead of him on 18"

The 18th never changed once in the 20 times they had previously shown it on the shot centre... It's as if they were expecting a new tree to have popped up on the fairway.

IanPoulter

Amanda Balionis PGATOUR.COM anyone ?

big_drive

On a side issue anyone know if there is any deals etc for signing up to sky sports at present?

We have the basic package, I'm thinking of adding it in the run up to the masters

Creasy_bear

big_drive wrote: »

On a side issue anyone know if there is any deals etc for signing up to sky sports at present?

We have the basic package, I'm thinking of adding it in the run up to the masters

Do you know anyone that has sky sports? Just use their sky go