I agree. I haven’t watched golf in months because the announcing has been so dreadful. I’m glad to hear Pepper’s leaving. I’d like to see Zinger and Faldo together again. Maybe with Strange.
Yeah, for tthe most part the announcing in golf is not very good. The best announcers(maybe we can turn this into a thread)by far are Renton Laidlaw/Julian Tutt/Warren Humphries and Ken Brown, they guys who call the European Tour on GC.
Next, although you only see them exactly once a year at the Brirish Open, Mike Trico/Paul Azinger. I like Curtis but he sometimes comes through as being a little dry and stale, which leads to the exact opposite of Curtis, that would be Johnny Miller with Dan Hicks. Of course I know most golfers can’t stand the critisism, but if it came from Dan’s mouth I could understand it. At least JM has the street cred and tourney wins to back it up...
Now the worst, and this isn’t really close is CBS. Look, Jim Nantz is the unofficial voice of golf and he seems like a great ambassador for the game, but I think he’s been around long enough and to make matters worse is the constant cheering for Tiger. They do it blatenly and at times it’s really irritating. And the problem is the good guys, like Faldo, McCord, Feherty and Finchie have to join in it.....
The perfect scenario is that Mike Tirico goes to CBS with Zinger and the 3 man booth with Faldo is reunited. Any time Nick and Paul are together is very entertaining indeed......