Ryder Cup 2025: Golf fans (and a few pros) are already furious with the number of commercials on the Ryder Cup broadcast
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The Ryder Cup is FINALLY here. Golf fans have been waiting years for the competition’s arrival at Bethpage Black. The stage is set, the atmosphere is electric and things are already getting chippy. Win or lose, it’s going to be an unforgettable weekend in golf … but first, a word from our sponsors!
That's the greeting golf fans got Friday morning when they rose bright and early for high-stakes team golf and got an avalanche of Bimzelx commercials instead. Unfortunately, regular golf viewers couldn't have been less surprised. The bigger the event, the heavier the commercial load. It’s a tale as old as time, and fans (and even a few fellow pros) didn't enjoy the deja vu, taking to X to rage against the marketing machine.
The tenor of the complaints was similar. The Ryder Cup is not a full-field PGA Tour event. There aren’t dozens of players on the course at once. At most on Friday morning, there were 16 players on the course at a single time playing ALTERNATE SHOT. To not broadcast every shot, especially before all matches were on the course, was an unforgiveable sin in the eyes of most golf fans, who turned on NBC in almost record time.
We'll see if things get better as the weekend progresses, but despite the totally unforced error from NBC, it could have been worse. We could have been Canadian …
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