stevenharkin:
the open must get the best telly coverage of any other sporting event in the world..if i were you brysoni id put the feet up in the house..nothing worse watching live golf in shocking weather..i did it at celtic manor 4 ryder cup and it was a complete shambles
<...best telly coverage...in the world.> Except in the US where the network that has the contract to cover it, (for the last few years anyway), in it's profoundly infinite wisdom and it's displaying of cutting edge sports journalism, tape delays it's broacast of THE OPEN in order to air it later in the day for better ratings and even then the idiots at said network edit it so as to give us a broadcast of one of the most prestigious sporting events in the world as a chopped up, maddening mess. A sort of a condensed, streamlined Disneyland approach. Oh,wait, I forgot, they own Disneyland. ABC/ESPN - incredibly shameless group of punks. Can you imagine getting a tape delayed Super Bowl or a World Series? And true to form, they'e doing the very same thing right now with the Wimbedon Women's final. It's being played right now as I type but is going to be aired stateside this afternoon. Incredible.