Paul at it again working the Presidents Cup. Tom Kim makes a 30 footer and its all very exciting, with PMcG exclaiming how much momentum has been gained. Forgetting, of course, that Scheffler has a putt from 15ft for a half. Which he makes. Momentum quelled, Paul goes radio silent. But regretably, for only a minute or so.
He has such a lack of composure in the box its astonishing. A charlatan.
How do you make out that McGinley tries to make himself look like a saint? From my watching golf it's his colleagues that paint that picture using his Ryder cup captaincy as the reason for it.
And Coultart is awful btw.
McGinley has improved massively over the last year. He is great on the golf channel too. I'd love if he ended up there full time.
So McGinley who likes to come across as whiter than white makes himself look like a right ……….. but talking about a work colleague
Awful commentator.
A McGinley boo boo today at Wentworth on Sky. Forgot his microphone was still on and effed about Coultard. Was funny. Murray had to apologise for him after.
Or a flannel 😂
Golf keeps cutting out for me on Sky Q. Regular thing across multiple channels for the last few months but this is the most annoying it's been…
Why isn't Boxall on for the main part of the day. He's the best commentator by miles.
Hard enough to watch today with all the rain on the camera lenses. You’d think in 2024 they’d have some technology to counteract this.
A lot of effing and blinding today, commentators seem to be apologising every couple of minutes. Even Speith dropped an s-bomb; you'd think he'd be more of a 'gosh darn it' man….
Henni getting her Rodgers mixed up
Henni: "If anyone can handle this putt it's Corey Connors"
This is the same Corey Connors that's known for being one of the worst putters on tour. Superb analysis.
The thing is for PGA events Sky is just piggy backing on the signal from US broadcasters. And those have a lot of weird stuff going. Like from 1 to 4 its golf channel then for an hour or two its Peacock, then for the rest of the evening its CBS. When it goes from one to the other there are often longish breaks with hardly any live pictures. Sometimes Sky even says this out loud. Regular viewers will know this. Also we all know the US broadcasters have wicked ad schedules.
Sky then takes all that and cuts and mashes and glosses over so that it almost looks like as if it was 'their' signal and gloss over all the US interruptions. Most likely the Bryson interview is such a gloss over of either a broadcaster switch or something or other that would be even of less interest to a European audience.
You can say a lot about Sky like too expensive anyway and too much former greats coverage and yay Scotty had his second daughter and Henny and Nick and Laura and all the rest of it. But on a technical and professional level they know what they're doing. They're doing this for a long time.
Smylie Kaufman. Was in the final group on Sunday at the Masters one time, shot 81, done nothing since. Apart from maybe causing multiple TVs to be switched off in unison
maybe not, Bryson back again.
This is awful coverage. The guy talking to him is a dose.
I suspect the Sky lads were all on a break during that but yes, that was excruciating.
And that's after already showing us Bryson's interview with Sky several hours ago. Sky's coverage has definitely gone downhill in the last few years.
Why have they decided to interrupt live coverage of a major in order for us to have to endure a 20 minute interview with Bryson De Chambeau.
Horrendous stuff.Dreadful broadcasting, what is American sports media obsession with doing everything bar showing the sport they are broadcasting.
Did they show Brooks putting into the bunker before he made that triple? If they did I must've missed it
When players are hitting into the green it wouldn't kill Sky to highlight the flag, often very difficult to see where the green is.
Henni Koyack continues to be an absolute pain to listen to. The fact that she's been promoted to a main commentator is an abomination. Feedback on social media is universally negative too from what I can see.
Theres no woke going on with sky or they wouldn't be praising DeChambeau and everybody else from that tour.
Woke? 🤣
Was watching the golf on sky. Was missing so much golf there with their chats and then catch up. Switched on CBS, it's like night and day. The Americans actually make it exciting and not missing any leaders shots.
Not just golf I've listened to increasing amounts in these recent woke years in other sports on various networks drowning their broadcasts about newborn babies, engagement rings, weddings… yeah congrats and all that on your private life but I tuned in to watch the action FFS
Some of the questions felt like Scottie knocked the person down. How many times have the general public driven by a fatal accident and carry on their day like nothing happened. It’s like sky and golfers have to mourn a death. If this accident happened 10 miles away nothing be made of it or person had a heart attack at home. Just because it happened outside the gate and involved a volunteer.
Hopefully the coverage improves over the weekend. I've no interest in watching a broadcast that's essentially CNN news with a few golf shots thrown in.
Also, what's the obsession with discussing golfer's kids/whether they've recently had a kid/whether they're about to have a kid. I can't think of another sport where it's fixated upon anywhere near as much. I couldn't tell you how many kids Kevin de Bruyne or Novak Djokovic or Lewis Hamilton has, mainly because it's rightly never mentioned.
There's nothing I love more than watching an entire press conference where a golfer is asked the same question in 20 different ways, all while several of the world's best players are contending in a major
So they showed a stat that Scottie will need to remain world number 1 until 2035 and Andrew goes another 14 years. You’d have thought basic maths might have been better with coltart
That Henni/Davies/Coltart commentary combination was a tough listen, thankfully they've changed it up
