So this isn't on BBC this year, nor Sky again. In case you hadn't seen, it is only live online - Eleven Sports have the first two rounds free on Facebook then you have to sign up for £6 a month (or quit after your free trial week).
https://www.elevensports.uk/It's not ideal but it is cheaper than me buying Now TV for the week (£13 per major), plus there is the bonus of foreign football once all leagues kick off. I suppose long-term this is how we will watch more of our live sport.
Golf wise, I don't know much about Bellerive but apparently the greens are going to be slow and little bobbly. Tiger Woods (paraphrased) said "it's going to be hot, wet, and favour people who hit the ball high." In practice they've just had a break for thunderstorms and it sounds like that'll be happening a lot this week.
I've bet on Tony Finau E/W, it does sound like a Rory course so hopefully he turns up.
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I expect most people over the age of 40 wont be watching it via facebook (how do you do that exactly) and most over 60's wont even have facebook
bonkers idea. I didn't even realise it was on this week as its not been advertised anywhere............and I have Sky & BT sport.
BBC don't care about golf sadly and I've no idea what happened to Sky showing it. I doubt it's money related for them so they must have fallen out with someone.
So next year we have
Masters - April
US PGA - May
US Open - June
The Open - July
Lovely! And with the Players back in it's old slot of March golf is sorted!
https://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/news/bbc-pga-championship-coverage/
19:15 Brooks Koepka (US), Patrick Reed (US), Francesco Molinari (Ita)
19:37 Jordan Spieth (US), Jon Rahm (Spa), Justin Rose (Eng)
13:28 Martin Kaymer (Ger), Davis Love III (US), Rich Beem (US)
13:39 Rickie Fowler (US), Hideki Matsuyama (Jpn), Ian Poulter (Eng)
14:01 Jason Day (Aus), Phil Mickelson (US), Keegan Bradley (US)
14:23 Rory McIlroy (NI), Justin Thomas (US), Tiger Woods (US)
Such a shame we have to watch it on Facebook. Anyway I'm at Lords!
I think this is insane. A major is being held, which they have extensively covered in the past & they are showing re-runs of a completly different event.
wtf ???
Sky's contract with the other PGA events runs until 2021 I think - after then all US golf is likely to be on somewhere else - probably a streaming service, which is the way live sport on TV will go.
People moan when sport is bought by other companies.
go figure.
Also, there is no highlights package from either Sky or the BBC. This is one of golfs 4 majors fgs...........Even the Europro tour is shown on a weekly basis.
I also went for DeChambeau, Woodland and Cantlay thankfully (not that they'll do much).
I give up. The PGA obviously aren't bothered with the older golfer & going for the under 30's. Good luck to them.
After a quick look at work, on mobile it's forcing me to enable/download the Facebook app (I usually access FB using Chrome).
To get that working on mobile I think you have to log into Facebook, which is really annoying for people like yourself.
The alternatives I believe are going to S11's website on a computer and taking the free trial for a week, or presumably their own mobile app is streaming it if you sign up for the trial.
This is pretty farcical. I don't think many people in the UK are going to be talking more so about the golf than the coverage.
Lots of complaints about the course. Not that it's bad per se but bomb it, knock it on, putt, no tactics needed like a normal tour stop.
Regarding S11we have someone who could be related to Danny Dyer and some bint who set the tone saying 'David Love'. Schwartzel was putting for a 62 yesterday and whilst they may not have control or the cameras, I don't think they even mentioned it.
I understand now how people can boycott our home games & be out shopping when we are playing.
total nonsense......or should that be nonce sense