Running 2022 Golf Thread

Not all of them, but the US Open does.

 

Missed cut payments:

Masters $10,000
PGA Championship $3,200 (2020)
U.S. Open $10,000 (2020)
British Open $5,000 to $7,500 (2019)

 

NBC coverage is unwatchable.

 

If memory serves me right, you don’t even have to play to get that money from the Masters; all living former winners get it every April.

 

I know everybody does it, but NBC is the worst when it comes to having pre-manufactured storylines. If the event varies even in the slightest from what they expect, they're unable to change on the fly.

Within the first five minutes of any NBC broadcast, you can immediately tell what was discussed in the production meeting. Simone Biles is the most egregious example. As soon as she got hurt, NBC had absolutely no backup plan.

And Dan Hicks must have 3x5 cards with three talking points for each player, because he never deviates from whatever he wrote down during his prep. My friend T.J. Auclair posted a "Drinking Game" on Twitter yesterday, with mentions of the U.S. Amateur/1913/Ouimet house/Boston skyline, and Hicks pretty much would have had everybody wasted within the first commercial break.

Sports events evolve organically. But that seems to mystify the folks at NBC Universal, who want to stick a round peg in a square hole over and over.

 

Between the Tiger vacuum and long bomb driving game, most of pro golf is unwatchable.

Another broadcasting rule from my days calling college football on radio, you MUST have adequate material in case of a blowout.

 

Didn’t TJ operate a golf website called Inside the Ropes or am I thinking of someone else.

 

To broadcasters, anything worth doing is worth doing again and again and again.

 

"We're actually applying for OWGR points right now. We're actually putting in our application probably over the weekend, if not Monday," Norman said. "And it's a very compelling application. We've worked very, very closely with the technical committee understanding all the components of what you need to apply for it. And quite honestly, it's going to be interesting because on the board that votes on the OWGR points for anybody new coming in, here's Jay Monahan. Now, it'll be interesting to see if Jay Monahan recuses himself from that vote because of what he said on television with Jim Nantz the other day. So it's very interesting and it's sad to be, you know, putting that additional exerting pressure on it because our tour is a good tour. It's supported, it's got an incredible field. Our point should be that if we get the OWGR out points, then everything else takes care of itself."

Honestly - this is a guy who cheats on his wife and acts like he's the victim, because she wants half his stuff. And I'm sure its not a coincidence he sounds a lot like Trump with his use of interesting.

 

"Quite honestly"

LOL