Walker Cup 2019

[Brian_Ewen]

NO Live TV Coverage this weekend?   

[Tim Gallant]

David M and I will be there on the Saturday - very excited! Any others heading down and interesting in meeting up? Appreciate most will be at the BUDA.

[Michael Pelliccione]

Saturday, Sept. 7: 11 p.m. to 12 a.m. EST: Walker Cup Day One highlights – Golf Channel
Sunday, Sept. 8: 11 p.m. to 12 a.m. EST: Walker Cup Day Two highlights – Golf Channel

[Cal Seifert]

I remember the last walker cup at LACC getting the full fox sports coverage. A shame that isn’t happening this time.

[Brian_Ewen]

And the BBC are more interested in bragging about their highlights package for next weeks Solheim Cup, which suits their agenda nowadays   

[Tony_Muldoon]

And the BBC are more interested in bragging about their highlights package for next weeks Solheim Cup, which suits their agenda nowadays   

I find 'highlights' are almost unwatchable.  They should advertise them as putting comps.

[BHoover]

Growing the game...by not actually showing it! What a concept...

[George Smiltins]

I'm following the Walker Cup account on Instagram and you would think it was building to 48 hours of uninterrupted coverage. 3 minute video of Bhatia hitting right handed clubs on trackman.

[David Wuthrich]

Totally unacceptable!

[David_Tepper]

6-minute "behind the scenes' video from Tuesday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehzMwuMmhbg 

[David_Tepper]

https://www.geoffshackelford.com/homepage/2019/9/7/rampa-televising-walker-cup-complex-and-increasingly-costly

[Jon Wiggett]

Growing the game...by not actually showing it! What a concept...

It is the result of short term gain taking priority over long term sustainability. The removal of The Open from the BBC was the dumbest thing the R&A have ever done.

[Adrian_Stiff]

Growing the game...by not actually showing it! What a concept...

It is the result of short term gain taking priority over long term sustainability. The removal of The Open from the BBC was the dumbest thing the R&A have ever done.

The BBC did not want it. The BBC even released themselves from the contract a year early.

[John Crowley]

And the BBC are more interested in bragging about their highlights package for next weeks Solheim Cup, which suits their agenda nowadays   

I find 'highlights' are almost unwatchable.  They should advertise them as putting comps.



Right, I stopped watching the putting demos early and erased the recordings from my DVR.

[Jon Wiggett]

Growing the game...by not actually showing it! What a concept...

It is the result of short term gain taking priority over long term sustainability. The removal of The Open from the BBC was the dumbest thing the R&A have ever done.

The BBC did not want it. The BBC even released themselves from the contract a year early.

Adrian,


it certainly was not that they did not want it. The BBC knew they could not compete financially with other bidders and so when the opportunity came up to finish their contract early they took it to save money. Had they been offered a deal they could have afforded they would probably have taken it. But looking at it from the other side of the equation, the exposure gained by the BBC coverage was massive compared to what it is now. In an era when the main concern for the governing bodies is/should be long term sustainability the R&A's biggest/easiest policy for this would have been less money from the BBC deal but massively more coverage/reach. Instead they went for chocolate and champagne today and starving tomorrow.


Jon

[Adrian_Stiff]

Growing the game...by not actually showing it! What a concept...

It is the result of short term gain taking priority over long term sustainability. The removal of The Open from the BBC was the dumbest thing the R&A have ever done.

The BBC did not want it. The BBC even released themselves from the contract a year early.

Adrian,


it certainly was not that they did not want it. The BBC knew they could not compete financially with other bidders and so when the opportunity came up to finish their contract early they took it to save money. Had they been offered a deal they could have afforded they would probably have taken it. But looking at it from the other side of the equation, the exposure gained by the BBC coverage was massive compared to what it is now. In an era when the main concern for the governing bodies is/should be long term sustainability the R&A's biggest/easiest policy for this would have been less money from the BBC deal but massively more coverage/reach. Instead they went for chocolate and champagne today and starving tomorrow.


Jon

You know best Jon.

[Michael Whitaker]

With the Walker Cup and the Buda Cup being played on the same weekend we were all very concerned that the Buda Cup's media coverage would be adversely effected.


I can report that the Buda Cup's coverage was not effected in any way whatsoever!


The Buda Cup received exactly the same coverage that it would have received had the Walker Cup been played on other dates.

[John McCarthy]

2 years to Seminole.  I told my wife today I am attending.  Would be nice to get a crowd, south Florida in September is pretty cheap. 

[Anthony Gholz]

Happily Seminole will be in May, but that is possibly no better.

[Kalen Braley]

Peak of hurricane season or May?  I'm guessing the latter is "better"...

[Ryan Hillenbrand]

2 years to Seminole.  I told my wife today I am attending.  Would be nice to get a crowd, south Florida in September is pretty cheap.

John - count me in. I've had this circled on my calendar since it was announced.

[John McCarthy]

Ryan: I looked on Air BnB and there is a three bedroom within walking distance for 225 a night.