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- Golf the best sport on TV?
- You've heard from Michael Lewis, who doesn't even think golf's a sport. And many of you have your problems with golf coverage (see recent comments and letters on Curtis Strange, Johnny Miller, etc.) Here's another...
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- Nick Faldo
- Just when I was thinking how well Nick Faldo is handling the Players commentary comes this letter from Jack Bird of Laguna Hills, California. Jack has a different point of view: How to Improve Nick...
Blog: Local Knowledge
- ESPN To Replace USA Network At The Masters
- The Masters, the most-watched golf tournament on television, will shift its Thursday-Friday coverage to ESPN from the USA Network beginning next year, multiple sources tell Golf World. The move is not totally unexpected since USA...
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- Golf Broadcasting
- Dean J. Toriello has an early Dean's report on the state of television coverage: Now that the broadcast season has started I would like to make two pleas to the announcers that do such a...
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- British Open Telecast
- Golf World reader Ron Field of Morton, Washington, who keeps us correct on all things Down Under, reacted with alacrity to today's Open Championship coverage. Once again the ABC-TV coverage of The Open Championship, on...
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- Hey, Johnny Miller!
- What we love about Johnny Miller is that he gets to people. He bugs everybody, the players and you. Miller's habit of contrasting the pro and amateur game's caught the attention an amateur--and Golf World...
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- Kelly Tilghman
- In his March 9 TV Rewind in Golf World, Mike Purkey said: "Kelly Tilghman maintained her clubhouse lead for exaggeration when she said of [Tiger] Woods: 'The most anticipated return in golf history.' (Apparently she...
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- Purkey on the Putting Line
- Mike Purkey's "TV Rewind" column in Golf World, one of the best-read parts of the magazine, doesn't normally draw too much fire. Mike's fair and pretty objective. His comments in the December 26 issue about...
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- Maltbie & Cink
- Kentuckian Ed Radjunas declares an unnecessary roughness penalty on Roger Maltbie for his post-round interview with Stewart Cink at the Match Play. "Rude / discourteous" are the words that best describe Roger Maltbie's interview...
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- Tiger's Return, Our Coverage II
- Good letters (and responses here) yesterday arguing that Golf World and the networks overdid their coverage of Tiger's return, to the exclusion of other golfers and the detriment of readers and viewers. Here's another in...
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- Catching Up on Letters
- It's been a week of traveling and getting further behind on your letters. Here's a sampling of letters from Golf World readers this past week: The Angry Golfer, as usual, leads the list: Dear Editor:...
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- Q School Pressure
- Michelle Wie and Harrison Frazar seemed to have overcome the pressure, but Golf World reader "Coleman" thinks that televising these Q Schools is too much. It seems to me that this should not be on...
