If you want to irritate the golf viewer then the best way is to not show the golf. We know, roughly speaking, that there will be commercials and we’re all very used to the rousing breakaway music as we head to another break but, at times, there’s no excuse not to be showing the actual golf.
We’ve heard so much in recent weeks about Ludvig Aberg; he hasn’t even played a Major yet, he was still an amateur less than three months ago and here he is on golf’s biggest stage taking on the Americans.
At the 1st hole, playing in the second match out, the 23-year-old hit one shot – an ordinary approach to the front right of the green, from where his partner Viktor Hovland chipped in from the putting surface.
The next we saw of the pairing was Hovland’s approach shot to the 2nd green. We missed Aberg’s tee shot, like Brian Harman’s, and there was literally nothing else happening on the course. We’ve waited two years to get our eyes on the Ryder Cup, anyone watching in America has either not gone to bed or got up in the early hours, and we were being entertained by a barrage of adverts.
It’s all well and good to see players walking along a gantry on their way to the 1st tee but we’ve already had four days of build-up, there are balls in the air for real and we’re all crying out for some action.
If this were The Masters and we could quickly fall back on an online production where every shot played is able to be seen, then there would be less pressure to produce a better TV offering but we don’t.
We’re not sure why, in this day and age, but we don’t.
I might go back to bed. There are currently 6 balls on the course and they’re missing about half the shots and completely lost track of the action. It’s that bad. No idea what’s happening or how each team has gotten where they are.@NBCGolf @NBCGolfChannel @GolfChannelPRSeptember 29, 2023
Otherwise the commentary, for the Sky Sports viewer in the UK, was spot on. It’s all subjective as to what we want from a TV production but Dame Laura Davies has now settled into being a very polished analyst to complement the older guard. They all get on and that comes across, even to the extent of Rich Beem being able to…
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