News: Hyundai Tournament of Champions
January 2 2012
12:10 pm
Golf Channel’s broadcast notes
Golf Channel will offer 17-1/2 hours of prime-time live coverage from each round of this week’s season-opening PGA TOUR event, the Hyundai Tournament of Champions. Here are a few broadcast notes:
AIRTIMES
Friday 5:30-10 p.m. (Live) / 10:30 p.m.-3 a.m. (Replay)
Saturday 5:30-10 p.m. (Live) / 10:30 p.m.-3 a.m. (Replay)
Sunday 5:30-10 p.m. (Live) / 10:30 p.m.-3 a.m. (Replay)
Monday 4-8 p.m. (Live) / 9 p.m.-1 a.m. (Replay)
GOLF CHANNEL BROADCAST TEAM
Terry Gannon / Dan Hicks (Play-by-Play)
Nick Faldo / Johnny Miller (Analyst)
Frank Nobilo (Tower)
Mark Rolfing (Tower)
Curt Byrum (On Course)
Jerry Foltz (On Course)
Kelly Tilghman (Show Host / Interviews)
NOTES
Faldo and Miller to Share Broadcast Booth: Johnny Miller and Nick Faldo, the two preeminent names in golf television today, will work as co-analysts for the first time at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.
More than 17 Hours of Live Tournament Coverage: Golf Channel’s coverage will include 17-1/2 live hours from Hawaii –with the majority in primetime — featuring a Monday finish for the first time.
Aimpoint technology: Aimpoint presented by Fidelity, Golf Channel’s Emmy award-winning technology that predicts the line of a putt and where players must aim to hole out, will be featured on holes 13 and 18 at the Plantation Course at Kapalua.
Wraparound news coverage at Kapalua: Golf Central and Golf Central Pre Game will broadcast live and on-site from the Plantation Course Thursday-Monday. Steve Sands and Brandel Chamblee will host Golf Central, joined by the network’s team of reporters and anchors.
Opening Drive Special Thursday: Thursday at 6 p.m. ET, Golf Central will kick off the 2012 PGA TOUR season with a two-hour Opening Drive special, featuring Golf Channel and Golf Channel on NBC personalities previewing the Hyundai Tournament of Champions and discussing the hot topics heading into the 2012 season in a roundtable format. The special also will feature several PGA TOUR professionals competing in a closest-to-the-pin competition on the 11th hole at the Plantation Course at Kapalua, benefiting a number of area charities. Throughout the show, Kelly Tilghman and Jerry Foltz will interview players as they prepare for the 2012 PGA TOUR season, and Terry Gannon will sit down with Johnny Miller to get his predictions on the 2012 season.
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Mark Rolfing? Why does he commentate at all on the Golf? I can’t understand a word he says.
I make this comment of course regarding Mark Rolfing’s ridiculous comment last season when talking about Andy Prodger, an Englishman born very close to where I’m living, who was KJ Choi’s Caddy at the time when Rolfing said “It’s always difficult to understand Andy at the best of time”. Absolutely ridiculous the guy is from ENGLAND and he speaks ENGLISH. As far as I’m aware Americans speak English too.
That is of course apart from the yee-haww, git r dun, friggin the riggin and fixin’ the dinner
The only English-speaking people on the planet who are universally understood are in the western section of the United States.
A person born and raised in the Phillippines, for example, will have a far easier time understanding the words of someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, rather than someone from London.
I really like the broadcast crew. Gotta like Dan Hicks with his commentary on many different sports. Must be difficult to keep current and sound in-the-know about multiple sports. Anyone remember the 2008 Olympics, e.g.? But how could you not like Rolfing? Especially the moustache.
You should pick on the English for their vernacular as well. It is a lot more difficult to understand since it is mostly a collection of half-bitten phonemes and misplaced vowels.
Did you know “fourfh” comes after “fird”?
It depends on what part of the country, most English speaking countries have some very clear speakers, it’s just that usually in inner cities and rural areas that it sounds a bit strange.
Rolfing when did he have a mustash? Must be thinking McCord .
Note to PGA Tour: Please start streaming your events. Some people would pay for a package of having all tournaments streamed live. All the other major sports are streaming their events. Its time for the PGA to do it as well.
Steve stole my thunder, If the PGA is not going to begin streaming in the near future, please explain why. Golf is becoming the most popular sport in the world, exponentially, please please get with the program.
I agree w/ streaming events. Jim
Canadians and mid west Americans are more valued in China as teachers of English for the reason that they ” Have no accent”
The broadcast crew is terrific because they really like their jobs. Spend time with Hicks, Roberts, Maltbie, etc… and they get along great and really enjoy what they do….
[...] coverage, for the first time ever, will include Johnny Miller and Nick Faldo in the same booth. They’ll be joined by Dan Hicks, [...]
I enjoy listening to Nick Faldo, but have never been a fan of Johnny Miller. He is way to critical of some of the players. When he is announcing I turn the sound down. Maybe some of Nick’s good humor will rub off on him. I will miss Kelly.