Except they picked the unfortunate moment he was teaching his daughter a valuable, uh, life lesson. The eventual winner practically ran around the clubhouse area looking for a place to watch the conclusion, before going in a USGA trailer, then turning around and heading to the range after described as in “non-stop motion” by Hicks.Ĭameras found new NBC football analyst Drew Brees out with his family in a wonderful show of network synergy. NBC’s camera team did yeoman’s work trailing the amped-up Rahm off the 18th green. That spoke volumes about an unprofessional attention grab.
But after Davis announced Oosthuizen and Hughes, there was a noticeable lack of acknowledgement by NBC regarding of the first tee lameness. This came on top of an early show tribute produced by the USGA, then followed by a booth visit where Davis was asked about the Jungle Bird moment and handled it well. Hopefully Comcast goes easy on those second and third beers put on the expense tab.Īs feared, the lack of a 24/7 on-screen leaderboard at all times made it impossible to follow the number of players in contention.įor the final twosome, first tee announcer Bob Ford handed the mic to retiring USGA CEO Davis. Just like Tiger’s putt in 2008, the different views kept coming and I don’t think we even saw the pond-cam replay? An amazing moment in golf history made better by the production team’s skill. It reinforced how Tommy Roy and Tom Randolph’s team has mastered the big moments. All in all should be a big rating given the mid-round excitement and audience coming for swimming.ĭo they have 20 cameras on the 18th green? It was another incredible and historic replay sequence, this time of Rahm’s birdie putt. Though there were key contributions from Bones Mackay (explaining the streaker situation) and Roger Maltbie (on the Hughes ball-in-tree mess). Because of the rapid fire proceedings, we heard very few player-caddie chats and seemingly less from the on-course reporters. Dan Hicks was in command of the proceedings and the analysts did solid work enhancing the drama while analyzing decisions. Jon Rahm: “I do love Torrey Pines, and Torrey Pines loves me.”Ī great overall day for NBC in attempting to cover a leaderboard which, at 2 p.m., saw 10 players tied or within a stroke of the lead. We've all got to deal with it, and somebody shot a low score today.” They're pretty bumpy because of the poa annua. Open that we expected.”īryson DeChambeau: “Torrey is a great test. They could have easily let that get out of control, but they did not. The USGA did a nice job with pin locations this year. You need to be able to do everything really well. That's kind of the basis of a major championship. The way it sets up, you've got to be able to put the ball in the fairway, control your irons, and you've really got to putt well out here. I think it's perfect for a major championship. So well done to the USGA.”īrooks Koepka: I love this golf course. But you can still set it up badly if you're not careful, and they didn't. But the last couple of championships, in fact going back to Pebble Beach even, have been really, really good, and this one is spectacular. Paul Casey: “But from a golf course setup, it was brilliant, and I haven't always been able to say that in the past.
I think everyone did, and that's just how it is. I think if they just grow out the rough - I think it was kind of spotty, and I definitely got lucky sometimes this week. Apologies to the writer working on a “should Torrey Pines” host another major story:Ĭollin Morikawa: “I thought today there was definitely some tough pin locations that were gettable if you're in the fairway.
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