ESPN Open Broadcast

[Bill_McBride]

Is this the worst ever?   More hackneyed cliches that you can count, but I propose a new drinking game:


Throw back a shot of Glenmorangie every time an announcer says, "This one is right in his wheelhouse."   Better have a designated driver if you're not at home!

[Pete Lavallee]

Bill,
 
In the finest British tradition: always look on the bright side of life! Azinger may be the most insightful colour man in golf. Thankfully ESPN balances his brilliance with Curits Strange, lest we get complacent. Scott Van Pelt is actually quite funny, he brought audible yuks from his companions several times yesterday. It is sad that Ivar Robson, Tom Watson and Peter Aliss are all saying sayonara this year.

[Bill_McBride]

It's difficult to look on the bright side while listening to Tirico and Strange.  And I was amused when Zinger kept referring to the Beardies as the Coffins!

[Wade Whitehead]

Light years better than Fox, though.

WW

[David_Tepper]

ESPN will come on 2:00am U.S. east coast time to broadcast the completion of the 2nd round. You have to give them credit for that!

http://www.geoffshackelford.com/homepage/2015/7/17/espn-telecast-of-the-open-expanded-for-saturday.html

[Bill_McBride]

ESPN will come on 2:00am U.S. east coast time to broadcast the completion of the 2nd round. You have to give them credit for that!

http://www.geoffshackelford.com/homepage/2015/7/17/espn-telecast-of-the-open-expanded-for-saturday.html

7 am in St Andrews.  I give them nothing!

[William_G]

ESPN will come on 2:00am U.S. east coast time to broadcast the completion of the 2nd round. You have to give them credit for that!

http://www.geoffshackelford.com/homepage/2015/7/17/espn-telecast-of-the-open-expanded-for-saturday.html

7 am in St Andrews.  I give them nothing!

+1

terrible coverage thus far

who is feeding the talkers all the BS?

[Tim_Cronin]

Worst ever? Did you not see Fox' telecasts from Chambers Bay? ESPN presents great visuals, Tirico and Azinger team well (and always have), McDonough is solid, Rankin's thoughts are always a treat, North is solid and Alliss is Alliss.


It would be easy to pick a nit or two about a live telecast of 13 hours 15 minutes duration. That misses the point.

[Dan Herrmann]

I'll be a contrarian. 
After watching ESPN coverage of The Open, it becomes glaringly obvious just how horrendous FOX's golf coverage has been. The USGA should be ashamed for chasing the almighty dollar and sacrificing quality.

[BHoover]

This website has more complaining than any group of people I have come across in my life. If you're really bothered by this stuff, go take up fishing or basket weaving, I hear they are solitary pursuits.

[Sam Morrow]

This website has more complaining than any group of people I have come across in my life. If you're really bothered by this stuff, go take up fishing or basket weaving, I hear they are solitary pursuits.

Amen

[Bill_McBride]

This website has more complaining than any group of people I have come across in my life. If you're really bothered by this stuff, go take up fishing or basket weaving, I hear they are solitary pursuits.

it is our God given right to complain.  I think it's in the Constitution, maybe the Bill of Rights. 

[Craig Sweet]

I watched yesterday at 4:30am...2-3 minutes of golf followed by 2-3 minutes of commercials. I watched for maybe an hour and 95% of what I saw was putting.

[Lloyd_Cole]

Curtis Strange played the Open 5 times in the 1980's, his prime. He even finished in the top 20 a couple of times.

[Dan Herrmann]

@Craig Sweet - DVR the Open.  It's the only way to watch it

[Craig Sweet]

Dan, I don't own a DVR and I don't have the TV hooked into Charters dvr program.  I've decided to marginally watch the tourney.....and ESPN's coverage sucks.

[Craig Sweet]

Only a few weeks to go and the Premier League will be back to fill my Saturday and Sunday mornings! Thank god!

[Greg Beaulieu]

I'll be a contrarian. 
After watching ESPN coverage of The Open, it becomes glaringly obvious just how horrendous FOX's golf coverage has been. The USGA should be ashamed for chasing the almighty dollar and sacrificing quality.

I agree. I have been fairly impressed with the job ESPN has been doing. I enjoy Tirico and Azinger and their supporting cast is quite good. A shame that after next year there will be no more golf on ESPN. The contrast with the poor Fox presentation by comparison is shocking.

[Sam Morrow]

What's it matter, you people bitch no matter who is covering an event.

[Bill_McBride]

What's it matter, you people bitch no matter who is covering an event.

You're probably too young to remember Henry Longhurst. 

[Sam Morrow]

I know who he was.

[Bill_McBride]

I know who he was.

He knew the value of silence during a broadcast.  None of today's guys do, I don't care who they're working for, the fell obliged to fill every available second with chatter.  Longhurst knew how to let the story tell itself. 

[Sam Morrow]

I actually thought Fox did a good job during the open of not talking non stop and letting the play do the talking.

[John McCarthy]

I like Tirico.  He knows his job, describe what happened and then let the experts opine.  The unfortunatw thing is they let Strange opine. 

The visual of the day was looking back toward the tee of the Road Hole and showing the tee tracer of all the drives, and how much Johnson's drive stood out. 

[Aidan Bradley]

When talking about playing in the fading light Zinger said "I do some of my best work in the dark". Anyone catch that?