Who watches golf coverage in real-time?

[SubPar]

I virtually never watch anything in real-time on TV anymore, but certainly not golf. With all the retrospectives, interviews, recaps of what happened the day before, inane commentator chatter and advertising, I cannot bear to watch it unfold live.

Apparently we are a group that might have money to invest but suffer from ED, bladder control issues, and high blood pressure. I skip all the garbage and just watch the play I am interested in.

The DVR, especially TiVo, is a gift from heaven for the sports fan.

SubPar

[CG031]

I'm about 50/50. I usually tape the major's (each round) so if I go out somewhere, or am busy, I will just watch it at a later time at night or something. But, usually I watch most things live.

[jonnythan]

I absolutely cannot watch any taped sporting event. I do watch golf live on occasion.

[iacas]

Apparently we are a group that might have money to invest but suffer from ED, bladder control issues, and high blood pressure. I skip all the garbage and just watch the play I am interested in.

No, that's just the last batch of people who haven't figure out how to skip commercials on their DVR.

Oh, and I generally start watching behind schedule so I can catch up near the end. For the big events I watch live (and the Masters and whatnot generally show a good amount of golf, so the commercials aren't annoying enough to use the DVR for anything but insurance against a phone call or something coming up).

[Prairie Golfer]

Always live.

I don't own a DVR/Tivo so I really don't have a choice.

These days if I'm not watching sports the tv is probably off.

[Big_M]

Like others have said... most golf I start late and catch up via DVR. Generally I don't really watch any TV at the scheduled air time, or at least not very often.

I am 100% addicted to my DVR and love life w/o commercials, halftimes, intermissions, and so-on.

[SubPar]

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I do the same thing with most of the Majors. I get a couple of hours on the DVR and then I catch up with the live coverage the last 30 minutes or so.

I am usually playing golf on the weekends, so I TiVo as many as 3-4 events and watch them when I get home. I used to tape them until about 3 years ago. Tape was awful though. I had to schedule each start and stop time and spent a lot of time shuttling the tape around looking for the bits I wanted to watch. I was playing poker with a friend who was talking about her TiVo and I decided to get one. No technology has had a greater positive impact on my life than digital video recording (at work and at home). Being able to set shows up to auto-record, recording up to 80 hours of SD programming, and so on, is great. If I realize there is something on TV that I want while I am at work, I log-in on the web and schedule it from my office. The jump-back feature is the best. As I shuttle through and see a player hitting a shot, the "play" button compensates for reaction time, so when I hit Play it bounces back to the bit I want to see. I have no patience for sitting through some glowing Jimmy Roberts package, or a Viagra commercial while waiting to see what's happening on the course. SubPar

[Zeph]

Always watch it live, unless I missed it and happen to come across a rerun on some channel later on. Never record anything.

I mostly watch the PGA Tour, since I live in Europe, most of the tournaments start airing from 7-9PM over here and end from midnight to 2AM. It's a perfect time to watch golf.

[bogeyhitter25]

I don't have a TiVo, so it's always live for me. It takes the fun out of it, if it is taped. That's the way I feel.

[fishn4life]

I'm with you but my wife insists on watching the interviews, commentators, etc...

Who would have guessed? I guess I'm a lucky man solely because she loves golf...

[crazygoalie13]

i ALWAYS try and watch them live. I like it so much more than watching on tape.