“When you put the pressure on that guy, you’re asking for trouble. He handles it as well as anyone I’ve seen since Tiger Woods.” – Paul Azinger on Morikawa

“Didn’t take long for Collin Morikawa to put his name on the Claret Jug. 1-for-1 at The Open!” – Dan Hicks

“He’s 24 years old going on 40.”– Jim “Bones” Mackay on Morikawa’s maturity

“Jordan Spieth is back. There’s no doubt about that.” – Azinger on Spieth, who finished in 2^nd Place

STAMFORD, Conn. – July 18, 2021 – NBC Sports presented final round coverage of the 149^th Open Championship from Royal St. George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent, England on NBC, capped by Live From The Open post-round coverage on GOLF Channel.

Collin Morikawa shot a final round 66 to win his first career Open Championship and become the first player to win two different majors in his first attempt (2020 PGA Championship, 2021 Open Championship). Jordan Spieth (-13) finished in second place.

149^th Open Championship – Final Round Leaderboard

Player	Total
Collin Morikawa	-15
Jordan Spieth	-13
Louis Oosthuizen	-11
Jon Rahm	-11
Dylan Frittelli	-9

 

On Collin Morikawa (-15, 149^th Open Champion)

Morikawa to reporter Todd Lewis on his focus and execution: “Execution was a little iffy, but I knew there would be trouble. You’re going to hit bad shots…but I was able to get a way out of it and make some crucial putts. My putting stats might not be up there but they came in the moment I needed them.”

Morikawa to Lewis on his approach for the Tokyo Olympics: “The same goal – to win. But it’s also to make memories. I’m going to be called an Olympian for life. It’s going to be the coolest experience. And I’m very happy that the golf is in the Olympics now because it just adds that extra incentive to add something to your resume that not a lot of people can do. Any time you’re able to represent your country, the U.S.A., it means a lot.”

Dan Hicks: “Didn’t take long for Collin Morikawa to put his name on the Claret Jug. 1-for-1 at The Open!”

Paul Azinger: “This is some of the best clutch putting we have ever seen…when you put the pressure on that guy, you’re asking for trouble. He handles it as well as anyone I’ve seen since Tiger Woods.”

Brandel Chamblee, who picked Morikawa to win The Open Championship on Live From Wednesday night: “It’s said quite often, and mostly about people who want to change the game, that the game is dominated by bomb-and-gouge…inferring the game is dominated by ‘muscle men’ and not ‘thinking men’. How then do you describe the game of Collin Morikawa, and how then do you describe his success?…it is a throwback to Ben Hogan. It is a throwback to the tactician and the more cognitive game of Tiger Woods.”

Jim “Bones” Mackay on Morikawa’s maturity: “He’s 24 years old going on 40. He came over and spoke to me on the left side of (the 8^th) fairway while waiting for Louis to hit, and I just get the feeling that he flatlines it out here. He has a gameplan and he sticks to it because he keeps things so small out here. He isn’t worried about things like leaderboards or where he stands.”

Gary Koch on Morikawa’s switch to the saw putting grip: “I can’t help but think the 1998 Open Champion Mark O’Meara has a smile on his face. It was O’Meara who worked with Morikawa on his saw grip that he has adopted on the short-range putts.”

Hicks: “And that’s another huge quality that Morikawa has. He’s not afraid to ask players with more experience, he doesn’t have it all figured out. Collin Morikawa will do everything he can to make his game better.”

Azinger: “He did it the old-fashioned way – fairways and greens. In the bomb-and-gouge era, that’s not what Collin Morikawa is about. He proved that. We all think that this game has taken some sort of paradigm shift where you just have to crush. He didn’t do it that way.”

On Jordan Spieth (-13, 2^nd place)

Spieth to reporter Cara Banks after the final round: “I hit shots that are still uncomfortable for me, getting over some scar tissue…I felt like I 100% played well enough to win this week, I felt that way and hadn’t felt that way in a major in quite a while. Under pressure, major championship pressure on the weekend, I felt my swing held up really nicely.”

Spieth to Banks on why he came up short: “It was just the finish yesterday. Had I finished par-par, I would have been in the final group. And if you’re in the final group, you feel like you really have control. Obviously those two strokes are important as well when it comes down to it. That was it.”

Azinger: “Jordan Spieth is back. There’s no doubt about that…that finish yesterday looms large. He was sitting pretty on 17 and 18 and bogeyed both of them, when it looked like he would birdie one of the two finishing holes yesterday. That was the difference.”

Hicks: “It appears that Spieth’s game – however sometimes unpredictable it is – is ready to take a crack at a fourth major next season.”

On Louis Oosthuizen (-11, T-3^rd place)

Azinger on Oosthuizen’s final round: “Louis is just not feeling it today. It’s obvious. He has missed a lot of shots weak and to the right…his tempo, his rhythm, whatever it was was off. And he never caught a good break when he did have a miscue.”

Mackay prior to Oosthuizen’s bunker shot on 7^th hole: “He’s got a nervy shot right here.”

Azinger on Oosthuizen’s skulled bunker shot on 7^th hole: “Oh my gosh. That is just pressure – plain and simple.”

–NBC SPORTS–

“If that was unexpected, (the miss on 18) was shocking. He has to regroup and realize that he didn’t take himself out of the tournament.” – Justin Leonard on Jordan Spieth’s back-to-back bogeys on 17 and 18

“The spotlight is on ‘King Louis.’” – Azinger on Louis Oosthuizen

He’s a lot like Johnny Miller in his prime. He hits every shot right at the flag when he’s playing well.” – Paul Azinger on Collin Morikawa

“He makes the game look so simple, but he makes winning look so hard. This is about the best I’ve seen him swing.” – Brandel Chamblee on Oosthuizen

STAMFORD, Conn. – July 17, 2021 – NBC Sports presented exclusive third round coverage of the 149^th Open Championship from Royal St. George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent, England on NBC, capped by Live From The Open post-round coverage on GOLF Channel.

Final round coverage begins tomorrow at 4 a.m. ET on GOLF Channel and continues at 7 a.m. ET on NBC. Peacock Premium simulstreams all coverage on GOLF Channel and NBC.

149^th Open Championship – Third Round Leaderboard

Player	Total
Louis Oosthuizen	-12
Collin Morikawa	-11
Jordan Spieth	-9
Corey Conners	-8
Scottie Scheffler	-8

 

On the third round

Paul Azinger: “The real pressure today is knowing you have to put it in the fairway and get it on the greens, because the scores have been incredibly low. We are setting records this week because of the lack of wind. The urgency for these guys is to get off to a good start.”

On Louis Oosthuizen (-12, Leader)

Brandel Chamblee: “He’s a tough player to get your arms around because he does make the game look so simple, but he makes winning look so hard. Part of it is because he has been beaten by some great play, but part of it is because he has been beaten by himself with lackluster play…this is about the best I’ve seen him swing.”

Justin Leonard: “He’s been under the microscope for the last two, now three major championships. It’s hard to quantify what that does to a player, but it’s there, it’s real…he has a remarkable ability to adapt his game to different styles of golf. The energy that is required to pick himself after a couple of disappointing Sundays, of having to continue to answer the question, ‘Why have you not won?’…and yet here he is.”

Azinger: “Right now the spotlight is on ‘King Louis.’”

Koch on Oosthuizen’s putting: “You think about the first nine holes – it was really the putting. Great par saves at Nos. 3, 4 and 5 allowed him to get into the rhythm of the round.”

On Collin Morikawa (-11, 2^nd place)

Morikawa to Todd Lewis on his approach to the final round: “We create these routines that we get accustomed to. Just because it’s a major, it’s going to be a final round and we’re in contention, doesn’t mean that you have to change. I’ve built this routine and hope that it’s bulletproof. “

Azinger: “He’s a lot like Johnny Miller in his prime. He hits every shot right at the flag when he’s playing well…there was just no panic in Collin Morikawa.”

Dan Hicks: “He was the most solid guy down the stretch today.”

On Jordan Spieth (-9, 3^rd place)

Justin Leonard: “He got off to a great start…I saw him running off the 18^th green because he wanted to get off the golf course as fast as possible. He was three-over on his last eight holes…this is the second day in a row that this has happened, just kind of fell asleep a little bit. He has to regroup and realize that he didn’t take himself out of the tournament…the good news is he only has to pass two players.”

Azinger on Spieth’s bogey on 18 after short par putt miss: “Oh my goodness…he almost missed a one-footer here yesterday. I wonder if that was in the back of his head…it just takes all the wind out of your sails. A totally deflated Jordan Spieth after that finish. He played a terrific round. That’s a shock to your system…you feel it in your gut.”

Dan Hicks: “You saw him hustle out of the stadium there at 18. He went right to the putting green.”

Azinger: “I would too after that…no real surprise.”

Gary Koch on bogey on 17^th hole: “It’s a case of driving the ball too far off of the tee. You put yourself in a handcuff yardage…what a bad bogey.”

Chamblee on bogey on 17^th hole: “On the list of things you didn’t expect to see today…almost an inexplicable bogey.”

Leonard on Spieth’s bogeys on 17 and 18: “If that was unexpected, this was shocking…two sloppy bogeys on the final two holes.”

Notah Begay III on Spieth’s demeanor at The Open: “He just plays with such a natural flow out here. These odds situations that a lot of players find themselves in in links golf don’t really seem to get him rattled that much. He plays creative shots…finds a piece of his game that you wish you could see more of back in the U.S.”

–NBC SPORTS–

Across NBC Sports Platforms, Nearly 50 Hours of Live Open Championship Coverage from Royal St George’s; 150-Plus Hours Including Featured Groups and Holes

First Tee Shot to Final Putt Coverage Streaming Entirely On Peacock, Including Eight Hours of Exclusive Coverage

GOLF Central Live From the Open – More Than 25 Hours of Live Pre- and Post-Championship Coverage Presented this Week

“It wasn’t just about skill or about hitting the ball high, it was about being creative both off the tee, around the greens especially, and it was about your attitude, knowing that you were going to face difficult conditions.” – NBC Sports’ Justin Leonard on Playing Royal St George’s

STAMFORD, Conn. – July 14, 2021 – NBC Sports presents comprehensive live coverage of the 149^th Open Championship across NBC, GOLF Channel and Peacock, beginning Thursday, July 15 at 1:30 a.m. ET on Peacock from Royal St George’s Golf Club in Kent, England.

Pre-championship coverage began Monday with GOLF Central Live From the Open on GOLF Channel and continues throughout the week with post-round coverage.

NBC Sports will present coverage from the first tee shot of the Open to the final putt, totaling nearly 50 hours of live championship coverage Thursday-Sunday — and 150-plus total hours of live coverage from Royal St George’s, including featured groups and featured holes coverage.

For the first time, fans can stream the entire tournament on Peacock, including eight hours of exclusive coverage. All NBC and GOLF Channel tournament coverage will also stream on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app.

Over the course of the week, more than 30 on-air talent across NBC Sports and Sky Sports provide live coverage, including featured groups, studio and news coverage across NBC, GOLF Channel, and Peacock.

Earlier this week, NBC Sports golf analysts Justin Leonard, Gary Koch, and David Feherty, on-course reporter John Wood, and producer Tommy Roy previewed the Open Championship on a media conference call. Click here for the full transcript.

Throughout the week, GOLF Central Live From the Open on GOLF Channel surrounds the tournament with 25 hours of live studio coverage. Live From’s variety of in-depth features surrounding the 149^th Open Championship this week include:

• • English Channel Golf: Visiting the hallowed grounds of several of the most renowned courses along the English Channel, including Royal St George’s, Prince’s and Royal Cinque Ports.
  • English Golfers: A look into the past history of English players competing in the Open Championship in their native England and lack of success, not having won the Championship in England since Tony Jacklin in 1969.
  • Quirky English Golf: Tom Abbott takes a tour of golf clubs throughout the country, from London to Kent, and displays what makes them each quirky and unique from other clubs throughout the world.
  • Lee Westwood and Helen Storey: Former World. No. 1 Lee Westwood and caddie Helen Storey have a sit-down conversation with Todd Lewis about their recent marriage, runner-up finish in the 2021 PLAYERS Championship and Westwood’s new outlook on the game of golf.
  • Stephen Dillane: English actor Stephen Dillane will narrate all opening teases throughout Championship coverage.

 

149TH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

Broadcast Team

• • Play by Play: Dan Hicks / Terry Gannon / Steve Sands
  • Analyst: Paul Azinger / Justin Leonard / Nick Faldo
  • Tower: David Feherty / Gary Koch / Peter Jacobsen / Tom Abbott
  • On-Course: Jim “Bones” Mackay / John Wood / Karen Stupples / Notah Begay III
  • Essays: Jimmy Roberts
  • Interviews/Reports: Todd Lewis / Cara Banks

 

How To Watch – Thursday, July 15 – Sunday, July 18 (all times ET)

• • TV – NBC, GOLF Channel
  • Streaming – Peacock, NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app

 

Date	Peacock	GOLF Channel & Peacock	NBC & Peacock
Thursday, July 15	1:30-4 a.m. / 3-4 p.m.	4 a.m.-3 p.m.
Friday, July 16	1:30-4 a.m. / 3-4 p.m.	4 a.m.-3 p.m.
Saturday, July 17		5-7 a.m.	7 a.m.-3 p.m.
Sunday, July 18		4-7 a.m.	7 a.m.-2 p.m.

Note: All live coverage on NBC and GOLF Channel will simulstream on Peacock Premium

 

In accordance with local COVID-19 protocols and restrictions, NBC Sports will utilize the world feed for much of its coverage, and many commentators will call the action from NBC Sports’ International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn.

NBC Sports will also complement its comprehensive Open Championship coverage with live featured groups Thursday-Sunday, showcasing two morning groups and two afternoon groups each day of the Championship. There will also be a featured holes feed highlighting holes 14, 15 and 16.

Featured groups and holes coverage will be shown live on Peacock. In total, there will be approximately 100-plus hours of complementary digital coverage in 2021. Coverage will be anchored by Sky Sports’ James Haddock, Sophie Walker, Trish Johnson, Richard Boxall, and Gary Murphy.

GOLF Central Live From the Open

NBC Sports surrounds the 149th Open Championship with more than 25 hours of live studio coverage on GOLF Central Live From the Open on GOLF Channel. Throughout the week on Live From, GOLF Channel will present a variety of in-depth features surrounding the 149^th Open Championship.

Broadcast Team

• • Host: Rich Lerner / Shane Bacon / Anna Whiteley
  • Analyst: Brandel Chamblee / Justin Leonard / Arron Oberholser
  • Reporter: Todd Lewis / Jamie Diaz / Cara Banks / Damon Hack / Eamon Lynch

 

Date	Golf Central – Live From the Open*
Thursday, July 15	3-5 p.m.
Friday, July 16	3-5 p.m.
Saturday, July 17	3-4 p.m.
Sunday, July 18	2-4 p.m.
*all times ET, post-round coverage begins following conclusion of play

All NBC and GOLF Channel coverage also streams on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app via “TV Everywhere,” giving consumers additional value for their subscription service, and making high quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms.

Coverage of The Open Championship will be available on Peacock Premium. Viewers can sign up at peacocktv.com. Peacock is available across a variety of devices, detail available here. Comcast’s eligible Xfinity X1 and Flex customers, as well as eligible Cox Contour customers, enjoy Peacock Premium included with their service at no additional cost.

–NBC SPORTS–

Across NBC Sports Platforms, Nearly 50 Hours of Live Open Championship Coverage from Royal St George’s; 150-Plus Hours Including Featured Groups and Holes

Transcript – Open Championship Media Conference Call Featuring Justin Leonard, David Feherty, Gary Koch, John Wood and Tommy Roy

PGA Tour Barbasol Championship Coverage Begins Tomorrow from Kentucky at 5 p.m. ET on GOLF Channel

LPGA Tour Team Event at Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational Coverage Gets Underway Today at 3 p.m. ET on GOLF Channel

Semifinals & Championship of U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship – Friday and Saturday on GOLF Channel and Peacock

STAMFORD, Conn. – July 14, 2021 – NBC Sports presents comprehensive coverage of the 149^th Open Championship across NBC, GOLF Channel and Peacock beginning tomorrow, headlining live tournament coverage which will include events spanning the R&A, PGA TOUR, LPGA Tour and USGA this weekend.

NBC Sports will present coverage from the first tee shot of the Open Championship to the final putt, totaling nearly 50 hours of live championship coverage Thursday-Sunday — and 150-plus total hours of live coverage from Royal St George’s, including featured groups and featured holes coverage. Click here for more details.

Earlier this week, NBC Sports golf commentators Justin Leonard, David Feherty, Gary Koch, John Wood and producer Tommy Roy previewed the Open Championship on a media conference call. Click here for a transcript.

PGA TOUR: BARBASOL CHAMPIONSHIP

Keene Trace Golf Club hosts the Barbasol Championship this week in Nicholasville, Ky. as Jim Herman defends his 2019 title. GOLF Channel provides live coverage Thursday-Sunday, beginning tomorrow at 5 p.m. ET.

Broadcast Team

• Play by Play: Whit Watson
• Analyst: Curt Byrum
• Tower: John Cook
• On-Course: Phil Blackmar / Craig Perks

How To Watch – Thursday, July 15 – Sunday, July 18 (all times ET)

• TV – GOLF Channel
• Streaming – NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app

Date	GOLF Channel
Thursday, July 15	5-7:30 p.m.
Friday, July 16	5-7:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 17	4-7 p.m.
Sunday, July 18	4-7 p.m.

Notable Players This Week

• John Daly
• John Pak
• Jason Dufner
• J. Choi
• Jim Herman

LPGA TOUR: DOW GREAT LAKES BAY INVITATIONAL

The LPGA Tour’s sole team competition this year will take place this week at the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational at Midland Country Club in Midland, Mich. Nelly and Jessica Korda headline the field of the two-player team event.

Broadcast Team

• Play by Play: Grant Boone
• Analyst: Judy Rankin
• Tower: Paige Mackenzie
• On-Course: Jerry Foltz / Jim Gallagher Jr.

How To Watch – Wednesday, July 14 – Friday, July 16 (all times ET)

• TV – GOLF Channel
• Streaming – NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app

Date	GOLF Channel
Wednesday, July 14	3-6 p.m.
Thursday, July 15	7:30-9:30 p.m.*
Friday, July 16	7:30-9:30 p.m.*

*Delayed coverage

Notable Teams This Week

• Nelly Korda-Jessica Korda
• Danielle Kang–Lydia Ko
• Lexi Thompson–Nasa Hataoka
• Brooke Henderson–In Gee Chun

U.S. GIRLS’ JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP

GOLF Channel and Peacock will present live coverage of the semifinals and championship of the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship from Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, Md. this Friday and Saturday. The 36-hole championship will be contested on Saturday.

Broadcast Team

• Play by Play: Steve Burkowski
• Analyst: Kay Cockerill
• On-Course: Tripp Isenhour / Emilia Migliaccio

How To Watch – Friday, July 16 – Saturday, July 17 (all times ET)

• TV – GOLF Channel
• Streaming – Peacock, NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app

Date	Peacock	GOLF Channel
Friday, July 16	3-5 p.m.
Saturday, July 17		1-3 p.m.

GOLF Central Live From the Open

NBC Sports surrounds the 149th Open Championship with more than 25 hours of live studio coverage on GOLF Central Live From the Open on GOLF Channel. Throughout the week on Live From, GOLF Channel will present a variety of in-depth features surrounding the 149^th Open Championship.

Broadcast Team

• Host: Rich Lerner / Shane Bacon / Anna Whiteley
• Analyst: Brandel Chamblee / Justin Leonard / Arron Oberholser
• Reporter: Todd Lewis / Jamie Diaz / Cara Banks / Damon Hack / Eamon Lynch

Date	Golf Central – Live From the Open*
Wednesday, July 14	6-9 a.m. / 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Thursday, July 15	3-5 p.m.
Friday, July 16	3-5 p.m.
Saturday, July 17	3-4 p.m.
Sunday, July 18	2-4 p.m.
*all times ET, post-round coverage begins following conclusion of play

All NBC and GOLF Channel coverage also streams on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app via “TV Everywhere,” giving consumers additional value for their subscription service, and making high quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms.

 

–NBC SPORTS–

Monday, July 12, 2021

David Feherty

Justin Leonard

Gary Koch

John Wood

Tommy Roy

THE MODERATOR: Good afternoon. Thanks, everybody, for joining today’s call previewing the upcoming Open Championship. In a moment we’re going to be joined by NBC Sports golf commentators Justin Leonard, David Feherty, Gary Koch and John Wood as well as our producer Tommy Roy.

This week, NBC Sports will surround the 149th Open Championship at Royal St. George’s Golf Club with nearly 50 hours of live tournament coverage on NBC, GOLF Channel and Peacock, and that number balloons to nearly 150 hours if you factor in featured holes and featured groups coverage.

As some of you may know, due to COVID-19 protocols and restrictions, much of our production will be originating from our international broadcast center in Stamford, Connecticut. Our producer Tommy Roy will touch on some of those details momentarily.

We’ll begin with opening remarks from each of our speakers starting with our executive producer Tommy Roy.

TOMMY ROY: Thank you. Hello, everybody. We are very, very grateful for the opportunity to televise the Open again. We have completely fallen in love with this event. So much fun; from day one it hit our hearts, and it’s awesome.

Last year obviously we didn’t get the chance to televise it as the event was postponed until this year, but grateful to be back doing it.

The pandemic is still creating issues for us. We’ve had to significantly downsize our on-site crew. We are going to be taking the world feed pictures and splitting our announce team into two, where the guys who normally work on the on-site announce towers will be in a studio here in Stamford, Connecticut, and our walking announcers, interviewers, will be coming from Royal St. George’s. Myself and the rest of the production team will be working out of a truck here in the parking lot in Stamford.

This is obviously not ideal, but the Open Championship world feed is top-notch, and I’m creating this as a challenge to produce telecasts that are of a quality that our viewers have come to expect. Really looking forward to getting started on Thursday.

GARY KOCH: Thank you. The Open Championship is very special to me. It’s actually where my professional career began back in 1975. I played on the United States Walker Cup team at the Old Course at St. Andrews, played the British Amateur the very next week and then turned professional, got through a 36-hole qualifier and played in the 1975 Open Championship at Carnoustie for the first time as a professional.

I’ve always enjoyed the Open Championship. I think the identity is linked to the unpredictability that links golf provides and the ever-changing elements, and it’s always fun to see who can deal with those two things the most and the best.

I have played Royal St. George’s. I was fortunate enough to play in the Open Championship there in 1985. I do remember the course as being very quirky. It seemed as though there were more humps and bumps in the fairways than any other links course that I had played over in England, Scotland or Ireland, the type of course where you can hit a drive where you thought it was perfect, walk over a dune and find it 30 yards left of where you thought and in the rough — some of the things that we’ll see the players deal with I’m sure later on this week.

I did read where three-time Open Champion Gary Player said that he felt the St. George’s course was the easiest or one of the easiest on the Open rota. I’d have to disagree with that. If you look at the numbers of the 14 previous champions there at St. George’s, only one, Greg Norman in 1993, who shot 13-under par, had a winning score of lower than 5-under par.

I expect St. George’s to be a stern test this week. I think the rough will be very lush, as it sounds as though they’ve had a very wet May and June over there. It seems to me it’ll be a course that’ll put a premium on driving the ball well and also maintaining a good attitude as you get some of those funky bounces that links golf can produce.

I’m very excited about being a part of the broadcast team. Looking forward to it very much, and I know we’ll have a great week.

DAVID FEHERTY: Thank you. I must say I’m really looking forward to this Open. It’s a golf course that I’m familiar with. I played a British PGA there, played the Open in ’85, also, and I recall starting 6, 6, which is not something that you forget in a hurry.

I would agree with Gary that I think it’s actually one of the more difficult golf courses on the Open rota. There isn’t an even lie.

There was a story told about Royal St. George’s that on the front nine you need to play with your left shoe on your left foot and your right shoe on your right knee, and the other way around coming in.

It’s a fabulous golf course. It’s a very old-fashioned golf course. There are a lot of blind and semi-blind shots. It’s the sort of place where the more practice rounds you get in, the better. There’s a lot of places that you don’t want to hit it, that’s for sure, and the bunkering is among some of the most magnificent that I’ve ever seen. The riveted faces, big high lips, there’s huge walls of sand, and I think probably in and around the greens, again, one of the more difficult Open Championship courses that you’re liable to see.

The fact that we’re covering it from Stamford, Connecticut, is unusual, that’s for sure, but really other than the fact that we’re not getting a hands-on look at the golf course, those of us that know it well, there isn’t really that much difference. We’ll be calling it off monitors as usual, and it’s business as usual for us at NBC.

JUSTIN LEONARD: I agree with David and Gary. It is quirky, and I don’t think that they prefer that term. It’s probably more “natural” that they prefer. It’s interesting to me that so many of the undulations in the fairways and the greens run kind of parallel to the hole or even diagonal, so you play a lot of across these dunes or kind of ridge of mounds to where the fairway is blind and you really don’t know if your ball is in the left side of the fairway or if it’s in the middle of the fairway or it could be in the right rough.

Because of that, it can frustrate players. I know it frustrated me a bit during my career, and actually St. George’s was my first experience in the Open. I qualified as an amateur in ’93, got to go over and play, and it was just a great experience and really where I learned to love links golf and all that it required.

It wasn’t just about skill or about hitting the ball high, it was about being creative both off the tee, around the greens especially, and it was about your attitude, knowing that you were going to face difficult conditions. It could rain one minute and be blowing 40 (mph winds) the next.

I just learned to really love all those experiences, and one of the reasons I love links golf I think is because I played well over there with a good attitude, and it’s a reason why I so look forward to this week each and every year.

JOHN WOOD: These guys have said it all. The Open Championship has always been one of my absolute favorite events. It just presents of type of challenges that week in week out on the PGA TOUR in America, we don’t get to face very often. The ball is played on the ground so much more. You’ve got to plan for so much more eccentricities along the ground in terms of bounces and rolls. The fairways are generous, where there’s about a four-yard first cut and then a second cut of another three or four yards.

Beyond that the rough is really thick — and Justin, you could speak to this, as well — sometimes you get that fescue that’s very wispy and the ball sits pretty clean and you might get a little turn but you can pretty much make good contact. That’s not the case this week at all. The undergrowth is super thick in this fescue.

I’ll piggy-back on Gary’s comments about the premium on hitting it the fairway and seeing players’ reactions. If they react, throw their hands up and put their head back and woe is me, and Tiger was incredible at this, walk up, no reaction, don’t waste any emotion on it, this is the shot you’re presented with and you have to move on from there. I love watching players’ reactions when they don’t get maybe what they were expecting.

One thing we were watching today, was they’re going to be rain this morning through last night and throughout the day, and starting Thursday and Friday I think it’s going to be pretty dry, so the course will start to really firm up.

It’s one of those cases where you prepare for one course and maybe see another one starting Friday, so it’ll be interesting to see who adapts best to that.

The other thing I like over here are bold putters. Justin, you know the greens over here don’t get fast. The ball typically can’t get away from you, and you can take a lot of the break out and hit it straighter and firmer.

I’m curious what you think of Louis (Oosthuizen) of late. Some great finishes, hasn’t been able to close it out. If you were his sports psychologist, what would you be telling him this week?

GARY KOCH: I guess if I was his sports psychologist, I’d be telling him to keep doing what he’s doing. He keeps putting himself in position. I think you talk to most players, they’ll tell you that that’s all they ask for on a Sunday afternoon, especially in a major championship, is to feel like they have a chance to win the tournament.

Yes, there were some poor shots at the U.S. Open on the back nine late in the day, but there were also a number of good shots, as well. You know, a good sports psychologist is going to remind you to think and focus on those good things that happened and try to let the bad things go.

I know his instructor quite well, Justin Parsons. They have really kind of perfected a routine for Louis that he’s very comfortable with, both his putting and his full swing, and keep putting yourself there and sooner or later the door will open.

DAVID FEHERTY: I was just thinking there, if I was a sports psychologist, I would probably take this week off. This is a golf course where it’s not so much what happens to you when you play well, it’s your reaction to what happens when you get a bad bounce because there will be some very strange bounces out there at Royal St. George’s this week, that’s for sure.

It’s about being patient and understanding that it happens to everybody.

JUSTIN LEONARD: I think the one thing I would tell him is almost try and elongate the week. He seems to play beautiful golf at the first part of the week to get himself in position. Sunday hasn’t been his best day, so almost think of this week as maybe going a month long and make it into a four-week tournament where yes, he’s got a few days off in between or maybe a week off, but try and look further down the road so that come Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon when he’s teeing off, he doesn’t feel like he’s looking at the finish line but it’s more of the longer term process.

John, you’ve been with some guys that have been real close to winning majors. What would you say to Lee Westwood, who also, so many chances, playing really good golf this year, but hasn’t got across the finish line yet?

JOHN WOOD: I would say very much what Gary said: Enjoy it. He looks like he’s so mature — he’s always been a mature golfer, but now I think he’s reached a level where he’s confident in what he’s doing, he knows what he’s doing, he knows what he’s good at, he knows his limitations, and he seems to be enjoying golf more than he ever has in his entire career.

I would look at it almost like when Darren Clarke won here. I know it’s a similar situation. But I’m sure he’s out here to have a great week and just enjoy it, and I think that’s when he’s playing his best golf these days is when he’s trying to just enjoy it.

Question for Tommy: What particularly about this tournament being unique or rather being remote for this tournament, what are some of the unique challenges that come with being remote for this tournament?

TOMMY ROY: Well, when you’re on-site you’re producing your own telecast. For this we’re taking the world feed, and the world feed is excellent. It’s headed up by a guy name Jim Storey. He’s one of my great friends in this business. We actually first worked together when we were young bucks covering Wimbledon back in 1983, and so, kind of grown up with him being on that side of the pond and me over here.

The world feed is going to be great, but it is different than the customized telecast that I normally would produce for our American audience. They are the primary feed for all of the UK, plus they have their international clients from around the world that they’re catering to, as well.

That’s different. It’s not what we would normally do, but we’re going to make the absolute best of it. I’m actually looking at it as quite a challenge. Having John Wood and (Jim) Bones (Mackay) and Notah (Begay) and Karen Stupples over on that side is not going to be much different than me being in a truck and pressing the button to their headset and they can talk back to me.

I think the challenging thing for the guys is over here not being able to experience the conditions that the players are dealing with out there as they make their way out on the course and can look out the window of their tower and see what’s going on. They’re experiencing that from several thousand miles away.

But you know, we’re going to do the best we can with it, and I think it’s absolutely going to be a great challenge. I’ve been producing our golf for 29 years now; about time I get a challenge like this, so I’m looking forward to it.

What’s different about producing this tournament from sort of a traditional tournament that you would produce on the road? What looks different for you specifically?

TOMMY ROY: Well, what’s different for us is what the guys were talking about, playing it on the ground, where we’re trying to show the American audience it’s not flying it at the flag and get it to stop by putting a bunch of backspin on the ball. This is landing the ball short 20, 30 yards short of the green and bouncing it up.

We’ve put a lot of effort into our tracing technology and what we call bounce-and-roll to show the American viewers just how golf is so much different, plus you’re dealing with the weather conditions, the wind. We put a lot more effort into documenting the wind, what’s the wind speed on one side of the golf course versus what it is over on the other side because it’s usually blowing much harder over near the water. Keeping track of that, and have the wind direction for the morning, changes to the afternoon and how does that make the course that much harder or easier depending which wave you’re in.

So, keeping track of that, and then whether you get rain or torrential rain, how that affects the different waves, as well. That’s what’s significantly different about covering golf over there versus here.

Who do you guys have to keep an eye out for this week, and do you think anybody can carry the momentum from some of the performances we saw at the Scottish Open last week, specifically good results from Justin Thomas, Xander Schauffele, Jon Rahm, and Matt Fitzpatrick?

JUSTIN LEONARD: Yes, I absolutely think you can take — players will try and take some confidence from a good week last week, seeing how it was links golf and they had a little bit of weather on Sunday, and I think you have to look at the guys who played well last week.

Jon Rahm, being his form of recent, the fact that he played well and got himself in contention again last week after a couple weeks off, I think he’s certainly the betting favorite, and even though he slipped to No. 2 in the world because he finished in seventh place rather than sixth place last week, I still think he’s probably the guy that you’ve got to look out for and has the best chance of being in contention this weekend.

GARY KOCH: I would agree with Justin. I think in my years of playing in major championships and televising major championships, it’s very rare when we see a player find it the week of a major event. You look for previous performance as an indicator, so certainly the guys that played well last week you would give a nod to.

I actually like Ian Poulter, to be perfectly honest with you. I think he’s a similar age to what Darren Clarke was when he won the last time it was at St. George’s. Played very well last week at the Scottish Open. Seems to have developed a little more maturity than we’ve seen in years past, and it would be something for an Englishman to win there since one hasn’t won, I guess, the Open Championship since (Nick) Faldo did back in 1993. It would be quite the story.

JOHN WOOD: You look at the betting lines, and I think all the favorites are going to be there at the end. Maybe not Bryson DeChambeau. I have a feeling that he may struggle this week. He’s never played extremely well in an Open Championship, he’s dealing with a new caddie, and I don’t know that that style of golf works here. I know it works in a lot of places, but like I said earlier, the fescue undergrowth is so thick, it’s very easy to even lose a golf ball out here this week.

I really have a good feeling about Jordan Spieth this week. He’s made this tremendous comeback from the depths of golf in the last eight months, and the last remaining piece is to get back in the winning circle at a major. I think he’s really in great position to do that. I think his confidence is soaring. He knows he can win on this style of course, and he’s a guy that can put a score up in multiple ways.

I think that’s incredibly important at a major because you have to have everything working but you’re not going to have everything every single day. So maybe one day you can do it with your ball-striking; one day you can do it by making a lot of par saves; the next day you can do it with your short game. Jordan can do all of those things. I really think he’s going to have a great week here.

Tommy, is this the world feed with no enhancements on your end, or is there some stuff you can add in from one or two different cameras you have over there?

TOMMY ROY: Yeah, we are sending three RF minis plus we can cover the 18th hole, but the three RF minis will be going with the leaders and with star groups on Thursday and Friday.

You know, a big part of what we do on these telecasts is it becomes a travelog for us, as well. We’re taking American golfers to a very unique part of the world and unique golf that’s being played there, and there’s a lot of history surrounding it in the town of Sandwich, where there’s humorous things about sandwiches, and etc.

We still will be working that in, it’s just not as easy. Golf is a game where they don’t stop playing when you go to commercial. If you’re producing a football, baseball, basketball game, they stop when you go to commercial, but here they keep playing. It’s incumbent upon us to pick the ideal time to go to break.

If I was in control of the broadcast, I can make sure I record the most important shots and come out and play those and then go to an interesting little travelog piece, but here we have to do the reverse order: Come out, play the travelog and then try to catch up with what we’ve missed. From that standpoint, it’s much more complicated.

The world feed has — as I said, it’s top-notch, and it has tons of technology, so we’re not going to miss anything there with tracers and interesting graphics, the animation, etc., super slo-mos, etc. It’ll still be terrific.

John, you have so many relationships with so many players, and for you and your fellow on-course reporters on the course and being the eyes and ears that the guys back in Stamford won’t have, do you think you’ll be relying a lot on those relationships and even maybe off-air conversations you guys have back to the folks in Stamford to get them the information that they would normally have if they were on-site?

JOHN WOOD: Yeah, it’s interesting, it’s a great question. I was thinking about that today as I was walking the course and thinking I may just send a cheat sheet for stuff that they would normally be out looking for — I know Gary and Dave and everybody gets out in their carts and looks around and spends two or three days looking at a golf course in person, and obviously they can’t do that.

Trying to be helpful and their eyes and ears a little bit before the rounds or before the tournament starts, I might send them some things that I’ve noticed or that I’m seeing to pay attention — special attention to or to look out for.

Yeah, I’m going to try and — I think Notah and Bones and Karen will all be doing the same thing and trying to give those guys a heads up on certain things that if they were here would have certainly noticed and noted themselves, but since they’re not maybe we can help them out a little bit with that.

TOMMY ROY: Yeah, every single one of the announcers that’s going to be here in Stamford except for Dan Hicks, all of them have been to Royal St. George’s and have played there or called other Open Championships there. So, it’s not like it’s unfamiliar territory, it’s just the immediate conditions of how things are over there since they’re not going to be able to see them firsthand, but certainly we’ll be able to describe what they’re seeing.

For Justin, you were talking about momentum coming out of the Scottish Open. How about somebody like Rory (McIlroy) who missed the cut but was able to get to Royal St. George’s early, and he feels like with the weather that might be there today and tomorrow, he got some better practice in than he would have otherwise potentially. Do you think that’s an advantage for Rory?

JUSTIN LEONARD: Well, if Rory thinks it’s an advantage for him, then it’s an advantage. Golfers, we’re an odd lot in that we will find — try and find a silver lining on any cloud. So yeah, absolutely, Rory is going to say, you know what, he got two good days, the weather was better. Now the weather is coming in, he’s seen the golf course, he’s got his work done. He is absolutely going to convince himself that that’s an advantage, and that may prove true by the end of the week.

Is there a hole or stretch of holes at Royal St. George’s you’ve really got to hold on or survive? Is there a critical stretch there?

DAVID FEHERTY: Well, I’ll tell you, it’s one of the toughest openings in Open Championship golf. The first hole you’ve got — the holes there to start off with, getting off to a good start is a tremendous advantage at Royal St. George’s.

GARY KOCH: Yes, especially, David, through the first four. The first hole is a very difficult par-4, the second is a good one, the third, a good par-3, the fourth hole is the longest par-4 on the course and played the most difficult in 2011.

You know, it’s really before you get to the fifth tee, the par-5, where you really feel like you can kind of breathe, not be holding your breath the whole time.

JUSTIN LEONARD: And then there’s a really difficult stretch on the back nine, 13, 14 and 15, and you think, well, 14 is a par-5, but Bernhard Langer hit it out of bounds there when he was in contention in ’93, Dustin Johnson hit his second shot out of bounds there when he was in contention back in 2011. Then you’ve got the long par-4, 13, a very difficult long par-4, 15.

That stretch there right through the middle of the back nine always has great repercussions on what happens at the end of the tournament.

GARY KOCH: You might as well throw in that right bunker on the par-3 16th, because that certainly has an effect.

JOHN WOOD: I thought 2, 3 and 4, it’s one of those courses where you can get off track very early. You can get frustrated very early, and once that happens you’re kind of done.

Even if you have those — start out bogey-bogey on 2, 3 and 4, something like that, you’ve really got to say, hey, everybody out here is going to struggle with those holes. I’m not the only one. So I think getting off to a good start like Gary said is going to be huge this week.

Now that Jon Rahm has a major under his belt, who do you consider to be the best player never to win a major?

DAVID FEHERTY: You’ve got to throw (Lee) Westwood in there I would have thought. That’s a good one.

GARY KOCH: I’m going to go a young guy, I’m going to say Xander Schauffele. His major record in his brief career so far has been very impressive. He’s already had a couple of chances to win. Seems like he finishes top 10 virtually every time he plays in a major, and in my mind, he’s going to get one real soon.

I know he hasn’t been around a long time and hasn’t gotten one yet, but I think he’s due, and it’ll happen soon.

JOHN WOOD: I would throw Tommy Fleetwood into the mix. I know he hasn’t had the year that he’s been looking for so far, but there was a two- or three-year stretch there fairly recently where it seemed like every Sunday at a major his name was there somewhere. I just think he’s got the mentality to win a tournament like this, so I would say Tommy Fleetwood is right up there.

JUSTIN LEONARD: That was a veteran move by you guys to jump in there real quickly.

You know, I think of a young player — I don’t know if I would pick him like the best player not to have won a major yet, but I think Viktor Hovland is also going to win a major championship soon. He’s a ball-hitting machine, and I love his attitude on and off the golf course. He is a tireless worker, and so I look for him to break through much sooner rather than later.

Analysts Justin Leonard and Gary Koch, On-Course Reporter John Wood, and Producer Tommy Roy

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STAMFORD, Conn. – July 12, 2021 – NBC Sports golf analysts Justin Leonard and Gary Koch, on-course reporter John Wood, and producer Tommy Roy will preview the upcoming 2021 Open Championship at Royal St George’s Golf Club on a media conference call today – Monday, July 12 – at 4 p.m. ET.

Media interested in participating should call 800-367-2403; Passcode: 1237853.

 

• WHAT: 2021 Open Championship Media Conference Call
• WHO: Justin Leonard, Gary Koch, John Wood and Tommy Roy
• WHEN: Today – Monday, July 12 – at 4 p.m. ET
• NUMBER: 800-367-2403
• PASSCODE: 1237853

 

NBC Sports presents comprehensive live coverage of the 149^th Open Championship across NBC, GOLF Channel and Peacock, beginning Thursday, July 15 through Sunday, July 18 from Royal St George’s Golf Club in Kent, England. Pre-championship coverage begins Monday, July 12, with GOLF Central Live From the Open on GOLF Channel.

NBC Sports will present coverage from the first tee shot of the Open to the final putt, totaling nearly 50 hours of live championship coverage Thursday-Sunday — and 150-plus total hours of live coverage from Royal St George’s including featured groups and featured holes coverage. Click here for more information.

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20 Hours of Live U.S. Senior Open Coverage from Omaha Country Club Begins Tomorrow at Noon ET on Peacock & 1 p.m. ET on GOLF Channel

Rory McIlroy and Star-Studded Field Featuring Four of World’s Top Five Players Headline European Tour’s arbdn Scottish Open; Coverage Begins Tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. ET on GOLF Channel

PGA TOUR Heads to Illinois for John Deere Classic; Coverage Begins Tomorrow at 3 p.m. ET on GOLF Channel

LPGA Tour’s Marathon Classic – GOLF Channel Coverage Begins Tomorrow at 9 p.m. ET From Highland Meadows Golf Course in Ohio

NBC Sports Presents 10 Hours of Live Coverage of American Century Championship from Lake Tahoe

STAMFORD, Conn. – July 7, 2021 – NBC Sports presents more than 75 hours of tournament coverage this week across NBC, GOLF Channel, Peacock and NBCSN, headlined by the U.S. Senior Open and the abrdn Scottish Open.

U.S. SENIOR OPEN

NBC Sports will present 20 hours of live coverage of the 2021 U.S. Senior Open from Omaha Country Club in Omaha, Neb., July 8-11 across GOLF Channel and Peacock, beginning tomorrow at Noon ET on Peacock.

Live tournament action from Omaha Country Club begins with one hour of exclusive coverage each day on Peacock leading into live coverage on GOLF Channel.

In addition to live tournament coverage of the 2021 U.S. Senior Open, GOLF Central will provide daily post-round analysis on GOLF Channel at 8 p.m. ET following the conclusion of play, hosted by George Savaricas  with Billy Kratzert and Henni Koyack.

Click here for details and the complete coverage schedule.

GOLF Channel Broadcast Team

• • Play by Play: Bob Papa
  • Analyst: Lanny Wadkins
  • Tower: John Cook
  • On-Course: Billy Ray Brown / Jim Gallagher Jr.

 

How To Watch – Thursday, July 8 – Sunday, July 11 (all times ET)

• • TV – GOLF Channel
  • Streaming – Peacock, NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app

 

Date	Peacock	GOLF Channel
Thursday	12-1 p.m.	1-3 p.m.; 6-8 p.m.
Friday	12-1 p.m.	1-3 p.m.; 6-8 p.m.
Saturday	3-4 p.m.	4-8 p.m.
Sunday	3-4 p.m.	4-8 p.m.

Notable Players This Week

• • Ernie Els
  • Jim Furyk
  • Miguel Angel Jimenez
  • Bernhard Langer
  • Rocco Mediate

 

EUROPEAN TOUR: ARBDN SCOTTISH OPEN

Rory McIlroy and four of the top five players in the world – Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, Colin Morikawa, and Xander Schauffele – highlight this week’s star-studded field as the European Tour heads to Scotland for the arbdn Scottish Open from The Renaissance Club in North Berwick. Live coverage on GOLF Channel begins tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. ET.

In addition to live coverage on GOLF Channel, the GolfPass channel on Peacock will present five hours of exclusive featured group coverage Thursday through Sunday.

How To Watch – Thursday, July 8 – Sunday, July 11 (all times ET)

• • TV – GOLF Channel
  • Streaming – GolfChannel.com, NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app

 

Date	GOLF Channel	Streaming
Thursday	7:30 a.m.-1 p.m.	1-1:30 p.m.
Friday	7:30 a.m.-1 p.m.	1-1:30 p.m.
Saturday	7 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Sunday	7 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

 

Notable Players This Week

• • Rory McIlroy
  • Jon Rahm
  • Justin Thomas
  • Colin Morikawa
  • Xander Schauffele
  • Lee Westwood
  • Billy Horschel
  • Scottie Scheffler
  • Tyrrell Hatton

 

PGA TOUR: JOHN DEERE CLASSIC

The PGA TOUR heads to TPC Deere Run for the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Ill., as three-time winner Steve Stricker and defending 2019 champion Dylan Frittelli headline the field.

GOLF Channel presents live early-round coverage on Thursday and Friday and lead-in coverage on the weekend.

GOLF Channel Broadcast Team

• • Play by Play: Whit Watson
  • Analyst: Trevor Immelman
  • Tower: Mark Immelman
  • On-Course: Colt Knost

 

How To Watch – Thursday, July 8 – Sunday, July 11 (all times ET)

• • TV – GOLF Channel
  • Streaming – NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app; Exclusive early morning coverage Thursday-Friday streams on PGA TOUR LIVE on NBC Sports Gold

 

Date	GOLF Channel
Thursday	3-6 p.m.
Friday	3-6 p.m.
Saturday	1-3 p.m.
Sunday	1-3 p.m.

 

Notable Players This Week

• • Steve Stricker
  • Dylan Frittelli
  • Cam Davis
  • Daniel Berger
  • Cameron Champ
  • Kevin Na

 

LPGA TOUR: MARATHON LPGA CLASSIC

The LPGA Tour heads to Ohio for one of the tour’s oldest events as the Marathon LPGA Classic gets underway from Highland Meadows Golf Club in Sylvania.

Coverage begins on GOLF Channel tomorrow at 7 p.m. ET as Danielle Kang looks to defend her title.

GOLF Channel Broadcast Team

• • Play by Play: Grant Boone
  • Analyst: Karen Stupples
  • Tower: Tripp Isenhour
  • On-Course: Jerry Foltz / Kay Cockerill

 

How To Watch – Thursday, July 8 – Sunday, July 11 (all times ET)

• • TV – GOLF Channel
  • Streaming – GolfChannel.com, NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app

 

Date	GOLF Channel	Streaming
Thursday	9-11 p.m.*	3:30-6:30 p.m.
Friday	9-11 p.m.*	3:30-6:30 p.m.
Saturday	3-4 p.m.; 9-11 p.m.*	1-3 p.m.
Sunday	3-4 p.m.; 9-11 p.m.*	1-3 p.m.
*Delayed coverage

 

Notable Players This Week

• • Danielle Kang
  • Brooke Henderson
  • Inbee Park

 

AMERICAN CENTURY CHAMPIONSHIP

This week, the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament will feature the strongest celebrity field from the world of sports and entertainment in championship’s 32-year history, headlined by Justin Timberlake, Stephen, Dell and Seth Curry, Annika Sorenstam, Michael Strahan, Tony Romo, Aaron Rodgers, Charles Barkley and defending champion Mardy Fish.

NBC Sports will televise 10 hours of live coverage Friday-Sunday, July 9-11, with the networks of NBCUniversal surrounding live tournament coverage all week in delivering its most robust linear and digital coverage in tournament history.

NBC Broadcast Team

• • Play by Play: Steve Sands
  • Analyst: Peter Jacobsen
  • Hole Announcer: Jimmy Roberts
  • On-Course: Curt Byrum / Roger Maltbie
  • Interviews: Damon Hack

 

How To Watch – Friday, July 9 – Sunday, July 11 (all times ET)

• • TV – NBC
  • Streaming – NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app

 

Date	NBCSN	NBC
Friday	5-8 p.m.
Saturday		2:30-6 p.m.
Sunday		2:30-6 p.m.

 

BROADCAST NOTES

• • Golf Central: Golf Central will provide pre- and post-tournament coverage on GOLF Channel Thursday-Sunday. This week’s Golf Central coverage is anchored by George Savaricas, Billy Kratzert, and Henni Koyack.

 

Date	Golf Central
Thursday	8-9 p.m.
Friday	8-9 p.m.
Saturday	12:30-1 p.m.; 8-9 p.m.
Sunday	12:30-1 p.m.; 8-9 p.m.

 

• • Golf Pick ‘Em presented by FootJoy: NBC Sports’ free-to-play game, Golf Pick ‘Em presented by FootJoy, features a weekly Thursday-Sunday contest for 25 PGA TOUR tournaments this season, each with a $50,000 jackpot, and a special $100,000 jackpot for all four Majors. Golf Pick ‘Em presented by FootJoy is available for download now on the NBC Sports Predictor app powered by PointsBet (available in the App Store and Google Play Store) and at com/Predictor.
  • All GOLF Channel coverage also streams on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports app via “TV Everywhere,” giving consumers additional value for their subscription service, and making high quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms.

 

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