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jrode Well Established Member

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Does anyone else usually find it annoying how they only follow a certain number of players around for the round?

I get that guys near the top usually get a lot of coverage, but I'd like to see them show more players instead of, for example today on the Golf Channel all they've been showing is Retief Goosen, Vijay, Sergio, Padraig, Justin Leonard, etc. They haven't even shown my guy Rocco at all yet I don't think.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I wish they'd diversify their coverage more instead of following certain guys around the whole round. I can understand that on Sunday you want to follow the leaders, but on Thursday and Friday at least, show more of the field.


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Yes I agree. It gets crazy old seeing the same 2 or 3 guys all the time. I have not seen my man Stricker hardly at all this year. Also enough with the commercials already. I was watching the prime time last night and they came back from a commercial literally showed one shot then back to commercial. I stopped watching.
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Well you also have to take into account that not all players get to tee off during prime-time coverage. I would be very surprised that they don't show Rocco though. He's a ratings booster ever since the US Open.

TGC usually does a good job of mixing up who they cover.

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  Klean said:
Well you also have to take into account that not all players get to tee off during prime-time coverage. I would be very surprised that they don't show Rocco though. He's a ratings booster ever since the US Open.

Yeah, I was excited for the coverage today because Rocco teed up at 12:59 EST I believe and their coverage started at 2 EST, yet, they've only shown about one shot of Rocco so far in two hours of coverage. He's played 12 holes according to the live scoring on PGA's website and I haven't seen them cover a hole of him, just one putt I think. Granted he's 6 shots back, you'd still think they'd show him.


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  Wisco-Kid said:
Yes I agree. It gets crazy old seeing the same 2 or 3 guys all the time. I have not seen my man Stricker hardly at all this year. Also enough with the commercials already. I was watching the prime time last night and they came back from a commercial literally showed one shot then back to commercial. I stopped watching.

Oh, man!

I get annoyed at Sky Sports' coverage and all the breaks for commercials but we clearly saw a lot more of Stricker than you did. He was followed for several holes as he was movin' up.

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  Klean said:
Well you also have to take into account that not all players get to tee off during prime-time coverage. I would be very surprised that they don't show Rocco though. He's a ratings booster ever since the US Open.

Haven't all players teed off before the start of prime time coverage? I always assumed that it was previously recorded - which basically goes to help the OP's point that they need fewer commercials and more diversity in coverage.

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