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

McGinley saying Harmon in the water when he went long and right over 15. He has played there and even I know from watching that the water behind the green doesn't go over that side. Then started mumbling about how the legs of the TV tower must have saved him.

Acosta wrote: »

I like Ewen Murray but the other lead commentators aren't great. The lag when Butch is on is getting more annoying. I've switched over to Eir frequently

Murray is a commentator for those that have never watched golf before, "simply stunning"

Is there featured groups on Sky today before the main coverage? I can't find it mentioned anywhere on their listings

Ewen tut tut, oh dear, Murray is pain in hole.

Thank god I can watch the golf on different channel

Sky are awful

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

What channel are you watching and who's commentating?

I'd take anyone at this point. The sky commentary team are sucking the life out of this for me

Why does McGinley need two hands to hold a mic.

He looks like a moron. Can’t stand listening to him.

Also can’t stand “raydar” what the **** is he wearing.

How did sky have no clue that play was going to be suspended?

They are ruining the masters for me, awful team.

Deeper Blue wrote: »

And Rich Beem literally just said they were expecting a delay at 9pm our time, Sky maybe should've asked him!

Rich Beem is the best of them, not many predictions from him, just analysis, Coltart the cheerleader just talks over the coverage, and makes no sense

You know they're struggling to fill time when they're showing a clip from a press conference on Tuesday of a player that missed the cut talking about a player that's not in the field

The key to good commentary is to be quiet most of the time....then come out with a few gems...

Like Ted Lowe....

Cant be done these days, people just love their own voices...

Deeper Blue wrote:

They should have Laura Davies on the main coverage, thought she was very good at the ANA last week.

I'm 100% with you, she's excellent.

Gotta say I still love Butch.

Pdoghue wrote:

I couldn't disagree more... she is dreadful.. sucks the life out of everything she interacts with.

Lol, she's very knowledgeable, positive but not afraid to comment on a player's weakness.
You must be mixing her up with somebody else or you have some strange fixation.

Sky are literally 10 minutes behind the live scoring. Why is there such a delay?

spiderdan wrote: »

Nick D is unbearable, can't stand when he's on. He's either trying to be as profound as possible making out as if he's commenting on the Berlin Wall coming down or else some **** gag about his co com.

Coltart is worse, he fancys Matsuyama now

Sky comms, please spare us the talking up of the 'contest' for the rest of the Matsuyama victory procession round.:rolleyes:

Disgraceful that there is no live free to air coverage.

They are really building up Rob MacIntyre for big things as if he is up there contending.

I think Sky only have one person at the course. CBS have people at all of the holes. So they can call everything going on. Sky should have ceded and just used the US Coverage for one year at least. But they couldn't bring themselves to do it. They needed Ewan Murray to spew his cringey pre-written line for the winning putt to throw into the Sky Ad Montage.

And as also mentioned, they have the crowd....sorry Patron and player noise turned down. There was a theory during the last masters that they didn't want to pjck up the players swearing. They get very pissy over bad language at sky.

That stupid, irritating laugh of Butch.
He is a humourless, childish man who constantly laughs at his own very unfunny comments.
He is the classic pub bore.
Sky needs a complete clean-out of Golf commentators. They have become an incestuous group of grovelling sycophants. They are obsequious beyond belief.

Deeper Blue wrote: »

I don't really understand why they have Beem on the course when he can't actually follow the players? He should be doing the main commentary the whole time

Might show up the rest of them, he actually won the pga in 2002, contrast that to nick Doherty coltart and McGinley who wouldn't win one if they played one every week for 30 years

Pussyhands wrote: »

Butch Harmon yesterday kept calling Zalatolis a kid.

"this young kid"

You'd expect him to ask "whats your favourite humming noise?" next.

Butch is 78, in golf years that's about 160.