Employees of NBC Sports, Golf Channel and NBC Sports Network may wish to avoid social media in the coming days.
The coverage of the Friday foursomes at the 2023 Ryder Cupat Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, Italy has only lasted two hours. Television viewers awake as early as 1 a.m. are already tired. ET at the start of the match were already tired of the coverage.
The broadcast on USA Network missed the introductions, tee-shots, and golf shots of the third match between Shane Lowry and Sepp Straka vs. Rickie Morikawa and Colleen Morikawa. Instead it showed more commercials.
The broadcast this year features a scorebug in the bottom-right corner of the screen, which shows matches and results live. This is a great innovation, but it’s not very useful if the coverage does not provide context as to how the scores were determined.
Watch the reaction of TV viewers to the coverage of the 2023 Ryder Cup.
