Hopefully the LPGA Championship will be on Japanese tv--Ai-chan had a great chance to win last year. I'll be paying particular attention, as Moira's played pretty well in this tournament over the past several years. I wonder if they have tvs in capsule hotels...?
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Nothing Against the Golf Channel, But...
...how is it that the second LPGA major of the year not on network tv at all this weekend? Has any network executive seen who's in the field? Or noticed this is the tournament during which Se Ri Pak will become the first Korean to qualify for the LPGA Hall of Fame? Or even glanced at the LPGA propaganda initiative tournament preview or pre-tournament interviews?
Hopefully the LPGA Championship will be on Japanese tv--Ai-chan had a great chance to win last year. I'll be paying particular attention, as Moira's played pretty well in this tournament over the past several years. I wonder if they have tvs in capsule hotels...?
Hopefully the LPGA Championship will be on Japanese tv--Ai-chan had a great chance to win last year. I'll be paying particular attention, as Moira's played pretty well in this tournament over the past several years. I wonder if they have tvs in capsule hotels...?
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Another newb question from me. This time on the LPGA. Unless, I am way off base, I think last time I tried to locate LPGA results on the ESPN site, I came up empty. Did I just miss them? And assuming not, I am quite surprised at this, or is there some particular reason they would not at least provide basic data on it? (Considering some of the crap they do get involved in.)
ESPN may be the "worldwide leader" in some things, but LPGA ain't one of 'em. LPGA.com is the place for recent results, and golfobserver.com has a vast database of archived results.
CBS had the coverage last year until the LPGA balked at being the lead-in for that week's PGA event. Then two months later, Ms. Bivens settles for 90 minutes of final round coverage on ABC of the British Women's Open, which was a lead-in for bowling, Indy car racing or something.
Thanks. I did get over to LPGA.com and find what I wanted. It was just a case where I already was in ESPN for something else and just assumed that I could find LPGA there.
I do see that they have coverage this week at least.
ESPN usually hides their women's golf coverage somewhere in their golf page. How many households in the US get the Golf Channel? Ridiculous. Great way to limit your audience from the start--especially b/c Ochoa, Miyazato, and Granada are bringing in non-golf fans in their countries into watching the sport--and I have to believe that Kerr, Creamer, Gulbis, Pressel, Lincicome, Prammanasudh, Wie, etc. are doing the same in the U.S.--so why limit your tv coverage to a network for golf addicts only?
Some network exec has to go make an offer to the LPGA to start/expand coverage of later majors. They would have an audience if they tried.
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