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Golf coverage/commentator discussion thread!! Mod note #12

Jayop

I'm not a big fan of his media work but McGinley on Off The Ball was very good this week talking about his first Masters and talking about the course itself. Very interesting.

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First Up

kiers47 wrote: »

First Up wrote: »

Nothing horrendous about him. He often brings up technical issues and insights that others (e.g Butch Harmon) don't. And he doesn't slobber over Tiger as some do.

He's fine.

hahaha. Do you ever miss a chance to mention Tiger? You are obsessed with him.

McGinley is bang average as a pundit. Better than the US coverage but jesus there are surely better guys out there. Butch is fine. Harrington was good i thought last year.

I enjoy Harrington a lot but I'd listen to McGinley any time ahead of Mark Roe - or Butch, who has yet to say anything more profound than "attaboy Rory".

Pdoghue

kiers47 wrote: »

hahaha. Do you ever miss a chance to mention Tiger? You are obsessed with him.

McGinley is bang average as a pundit. Better than the US coverage but jesus there are surely better guys out there. Butch is fine. Harrington was good i thought last year.

Agreed. McGinley doesn't offer much insight, which Harrrington did in spades last year. Not to mention McGinley's obsession with the Ryder Cup.

kiers47

First Up wrote: »

Nothing horrendous about him. He often brings up technical issues and insights that others (e.g Butch Harmon) don't. And he doesn't slobber over Tiger as some do.

He's fine.

hahaha. Do you ever miss a chance to mention Tiger? You are obsessed with him.

McGinley is bang average as a pundit. Better than the US coverage but jesus there are surely better guys out there. Butch is fine. Harrington was good i thought last year.

First Up

WHIP IT! wrote: »

Tyson Fury wrote: »

I like McGinley, offers a lot more than most on sky imo.

You can't possibly be serious. He's horrendous. He annoys me almost as much as Monty and his uncontrollable lips!

Nothing horrendous about him. He often brings up technical issues and insights that others (e.g Butch Harmon) don't. And he doesn't slobber over Tiger as some do.

He's fine.

WHIP IT!

Tyson Fury wrote: »

I like McGinley, offers a lot more than most on sky imo.

You can't possibly be serious. He's horrendous. He annoys me almost as much as Monty and his uncontrollable lips!

charlieIRL

I watched on the sky red button last night, was able to flick between the main converage / amen corner / holes 15 & 16 and the featured groups. Thought it was excellent.

Mantis Toboggan

I like McGinley, offers a lot more than most on sky imo.

kiers47

I flicked over to the US commentary for a while actually and f**king hell.
Jim Nantz and Nick Faldo, jesus f**king wept. You might as well just mute the TV. Bad enough having to listen to Nantz for 20 weeks during NFL season without that.

McGinley and Butch was a small compromise i suppose. :pac:

GreeBo

Paul McGinley is fast becoming the John Madden of golf commentators.

kiers47

One positive on Poulter winning last week is we dont have to listen to him on the sky coverage. Hopefully he'll just scrape in on the cut line and we will also be saved from any potential weekend work with Sky.

Im not sure i could handle him and Mcginley.

londonred

Watched on EIR picture was good commentary ok but headwrecking watching the same fecking ads every few minutes although the golf simulator looks cool thinking of getting one for the spare room after I have my weekends away in Dromoland Castle and the K Club.

dball

"fans" - you can get away with if followed up with an apology.
if you say "crowd" the heavens open up and your entire being is transported to Canada - where you live the remainder of your life in exile

Benicetomonty

Seve OB wrote: »

they can and do. pretty sure it was either feherty or mccord who they banned from the place

im watching it on OSN HD, uninterrupted coverage, no adds, no studio, just lots of golf

Beem made the mistake of saying "fans" earlier. Apologised immediately and banged on about patrons for a good 2mins thereafter. Laughable.

Seve OB

obi604 wrote: »

Where is “here”

Dubai, sorry, fix knows where I am. On hols.

Just had a single ad for trivago pop up there while the commentators were mid sentence and came back mid sentence.... weird

obi604

Seve OB wrote: »

TV its the local sports station here.
Its the best coverage I've seen in ages, just loads of golf, so the pictures are there if SKY etc want to pick them up they clearly can. Sure there are the usual breaks to show the leaderboards and a few flowers, but in fairness, they are very quick and not that often.

Where is “here”

Seve OB

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

what is OSN seve and how are you watching.

TV its the local sports station here.
Its the best coverage I've seen in ages, just loads of golf, so the pictures are there if SKY etc want to pick them up they clearly can. Sure there are the usual breaks to show the leaderboards and a few flowers, but in fairness, they are very quick and not that often.

FixdePitchmark

Seve OB wrote: »

they can and do. pretty sure it was either feherty or mccord who they banned from the place

im watching it on OSN HD, uninterrupted coverage, no adds, no studio, just lots of golf

what is OSN seve and how are you watching.

Seve OB

Eoinyh wrote: »

They should dictate who commentates and kick Mcginley out the gap

they can and do. pretty sure it was either feherty or mccord who they banned from the place

im watching it on OSN HD, uninterrupted coverage, no adds, no studio, just lots of golf

First Up

obi604 wrote: »

Hi

What channels is the master on?

Is it something like sky sports only on Thursday and Friday. Then also on BBC on Saturday and Sunday.

On Eir Sports too.

FixdePitchmark

dan_ep82 wrote: »

Yep, pretty annoyed with the quality, looks worse than normal channels.

Probably have there own cameras or some crap like that that you get at this event.

obi604

Hi

What channels is the master on?

Is it something like sky sports only on Thursday and Friday. Then also on BBC on Saturday and Sunday.

dan_ep82

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Only noticed now that my Sky is not HD

Is Sky HD extra money - I'm with the terrible virgin.

Like watching golf about 10 years ago with trees and grain a bit blurry.

Yep, pretty annoyed with the quality, looks worse than normal channels.

FixdePitchmark

Only noticed now that my Sky is not HD

Is Sky HD extra money - I'm with the terrible virgin.

Like watching golf about 10 years ago with trees and grain a bit blurry.

bobwilliams

I don't know how sky can advertise this as 'live'...they are miles behind

dball

mc ginley looks like he was auditioning for Dallas reboot earlier today

Happy4all

Roger_007 wrote: »

This is the first year that I've been free to watch the Masters but the Sky coverage is absolute crap. The red button doesn't work and all I've seen so far is McGinley and Harmon etc having a mutual admiration session.
Is it always this bad?

yep. Paul is a nice gut but very bland on this. Butch just scares me staring at the camera

Roger_007

This is the first year that I've been free to watch the Masters but the Sky coverage is absolute crap. The red button doesn't work and all I've seen so far is McGinley and Harmon etc having a mutual admiration session.
Is it always this bad?

FastFullBack

death1234567 wrote: »

It's the same every year. The best golf tournament of the year and the one where you see the least amount of golf. All the filler on sky is mind numbing.

Coverage doesn’t start until 8, so Sky have to fill the time somehow.

Would you prefer if they just went live at 8 and had no buildup?

death1234567

Keano wrote: »

Augusta dictate when coverage can start

It's the same every year. The best golf tournament of the year and the one where you see the least amount of golf. All the filler on sky is mind numbing.

Eoinyh

They should dictate who commentates and kick Mcginley out the gap