LIV Golf is stupid anyway. Players wearing shorts. Music blaring on every hole. Announcers engaging in endless mindless banter (even worse than NASCAR announcers). They don’t even pay attention to what’s going on in the moment. They have to see the replay in order to see what happened. Stats and analytics and graphics out the wazoo.
Well, we have the Harlem Globetrotters, Lingerie football, the Savannah Bananas, so I guess LIV Golf was the next step.
Who wants rock n’ roll golf anyway? Every tournament devolving into the 16th hole at the Phoenix Waste Management? Endless stupid yelling on every shot?
Yeah. I tried watching it once. Never again
There is a specific reason the broadcasters are not focusing on the moment, and that is because LIV has a European-style broadcast, not an American style (specifically Ayatollah, which oddly was the nickname of CBS producer and World Golf Hall of Fame inductee Frank Chirkinian). Jim Nantz stated in a 2021 R&A podcast the BBC style golf broadcast used in The Open is different than the Frank Chirkinian style of CBS, and LIV has that European flavour.
“Now the BBC style of broadcasting is quite opposite of the way we do things over in the US. We have announcers positioned behind the holes (specifically the final three at most CBS events, they typically run the final holes this way, something not seen on most golf broadcasts), and over here for CBS I’m broadcasting always behind the 18th green.”
“But for the BBC, you actually sit in a trailer without a birds-eye view, without a real look at the action. You’re not as I am (at CBS) from the tower, where I’m looking down at the green and can call the action with my eyes. The BBC approach was to call it off of the monitor, and to pair up commentators, and the commentators would go in 45-minute to one-hour stretches.”
The style of “in the trailer all the time” allows for this. You could never have any US golf broadcaster do what they do in Europe. Since they are not on course reporters, things are different.
Reminds me too of Apple’s MLB attempts with too many analytics during the at-bat.
The reason they rely on replays is the production style with director-focused instead of course reporter focus.