The final major of the year. The BBC didn't want it. Sky didn't want it. BT didn't want it. So there goes your TV licence money, your Sky subscription, your BT cash, the lot. Maybe Dave will make a bid for it next year...
Why is the golf now only on Sky TV in the UK with the BBC set to produce, if last year is anything to go by, a set of very ordinary highlights programmes? Who is to blame - Sky, the BBC, the politicians, the R&A or perhaps even Brexit?
The BBC has agreed an extension to its deal to broadcast the Masters, so the broadcaster hasn't completely thrown in the towel over its golf coverage.
After the debacle of last year when no broadcaster wanted the 4th major of the 2018 season and you had to find some obscure Facebook page set up by Eleven Sport to watch it, Sky will be showing this year’s event from Bethpage Black.
SkyCaddie has launched a Sky TV advertising campaign for its personal launch monitor / golf simulator, SkyTrak.
A new product which combines high technology with exciting gameplay is aiming to give golfers their best–ever indoor putting experience.
GolfPunk TV Pilot Episode1 presented by Tim Southwell, Denise Van Outen & Carly Booth. Filmed on location in Mauritius, Scottsdale, Pebble Beach, Wentworth and some other places. Hope You Like It.
The Olympic golf was a hit on TV worldwide. In the USA, where the last 90 minutes of the event were broadcast by both NBC and The Golf Channel, an average of 8.8 million watched over that period.
And there was little old me thinking the third at Coombe Wood was a tight tee shot. Check this out...
Step Brothers favourite Adam Scott takes on Jon Daly in a made for TV grudge match...
50-year-old Jesper Parnevik is getting big television ratings back home in Sweden as the star of Sweden’s most popular reality-TV show, The Parneviks.
This putt is twice as long as Terry Wogan's famous televised putt, which we showed the other day. At 200 feet, the putt Dave Pelz holed at Whistling Straits is verified as the longest golf putt in the world on television and the farthest putt on record ever.
An association of consultants working within the golf industry has responded to national media coverage of a report which criticised a city council for spending £2,400 on golf consultancy services.
Titleist will continue to build its long association with the world’s best players through their sponsorship of Sky Sports Golf’s coverage of the 2019 PGA Tour and World Golf Championships (WGCs).
Having sympathy for a fellow tour pro when he's come up short is one thing. Dropping the 'f'-bomb live on TV is probably not quite the same...
Love Island star Chris Hughes and Geordie Shore's Gary 'Gaz' Beadle have been playing at the 2018 Farmfoods British Par 3 Championship. The two reality TV stars made their debut at the Nailcote Hall venue, as part of the second Celeb-Am of the week's events.
From helping wake up the nation as the host of Heart FM, to becoming a regular contributor on popular daytime show This Morning, Jenni Falconer has achieved plenty in her broadcasting career so far. However, recently she has found a new love in the form of golf.
This week’s inaugural European Golf Team Championships at Gleneagles not only represents history with men and women playing together in a unique format for equal prize money – it also sees the return of live UK golf to free-to-air TV.
No one will benefit more from the return of Tiger Woods than the networks that broadcast it. Tiger Wood not only turns the dial – he is still the dial.
You Give Golf A Bad Name No23: Tom Waterhouse out of Emmerdale...
Top golf professionals are often paid a king’s ransom merely to mention a product in interview or on social media. Yet Oulton Hall got a plug on prime-time TV courtesy of the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old golfer.
Smokin' fairways, red carpets and cat walks, you can see Rebecca Grants on Fox Sports, ESPN and now, finally, in GolfPunk....
Here’s a golf technology product which can legitimately be described as being a proper head–turner!
The BBC is getting some serious flak for its red button coverage of the USPGA, but Peter Alliss has been fighting back.
German firm Viewlicity has laid claim to one of golf’s most game-changing technologies – Augmented Reality – with a new product named PuttView.
According to a report in the Guardian, Sky Sports has lost the rights to the 2017 US PGA Championship at Quial Hollow.
With the big three of McIlroy, Johnson and Day all failing to make the cut at the US Open, there has been a clear impact on the TV viewing figures – and it’s not positive.
It seems that the golf prank carried out by two Australians, when they gate crashed North Korea's World Cup Of Golf tournament, has not been received with the level of humour they might have hoped.
Watch as a six year old torments One Direction golf-nut Nial Horan
For the first time since 1955 there will be no live coverage of any golf on the BBC in 2020. The BBC has lost their rights to show any live coverage of the Augusta event which means that the UK pay TV Channel Sky is now the only place to watch live coverage of the majors. This is the end game for millions of golf fans who have seen the free to air coverage of their favourite sport fade and die in the hands of the BBC over the past decade.
A year after finishing tied for second in the Hero Women’s Indian Open, Christine Wolf enjoyed a much happier experience at DLF Golf and Country Club as she claimed her first Ladies European Tour title. The 30-year-old Austrian, who had led by three going into the 18th hole 12 months ago before a nightmare double-bogey wrecked her chances, was able to take care of unfinished business.
Welcome to our new feature, Who's Your Favourite, where we ask golf industry insiders who their favourite players are. This week its Michael the owner of GOLFWOD who is currently putting two of our team through his 6 week golf fit challenge.
Excellent interview with Tiger Woods speaking to GOLFTV’s Lead Tour Correspondent, Henni Zuel about the upcoming 2019 PGA Championship at Bethpage Black. He discusses the course, his preparations and his playing partners for the first two days - Brooksie and Franny!
Thrill-seeking stunner, PollyAnna Woodward has fallen big time for golf and she will put your balls in a vice…
American Golf has confirmed that its 2017 Championship TV programmes will be airing during prime time on the new Sky Sports Golf channel.
The R&A will focus more of its marketing for The Open Chmapionship at golf clubs and general sports fans in an attempt to broaden the game’s appeal.
She’s flirtatious, ballsy, up-front, drop-dead gorgeous. Oh yeah, and she can properly swing the wrenches as well.
GolfPunk's very own resident sock-puppet-head-cover the rascal lovechild of-Frank Spencer & Roland-Rat) gets chatted up by Sky Sports/ITV presenters (and golf nuts) Charlotte and Zoe...
The TV ratings are in from Tiger’s return, and they prove that he is still a big draw for the game.
Andew 'Beef' Johnston gives us the MTV Cribs style tour of his modest abode
Attendance at the Open fells below that of Troon in 2004, and the R&A are blaming bad weather not the £80 entrance fee.
Brexit has hit Ben hard but he is lured from his pant-ridden grief-hole to talk about Bobby Jones, Caddyshack Troon & Muirfield. We are also joined by Ernie Els and Ryder Cup team psychologist Jamil Qureshi. Plus win Adidas TOUR 360 Prime BOOST golf shoes!
Latvian Golf Sisters. Texas Bobcats. Swingin' Sirens. Introducing Krista and Mara Puisite
Golf young guns Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day have been pivotal in drawing a wide audience, but the sport is missing the 'Tiger' factor when it comes to 'fringe fans', says a leading golf executive. But is he missing the point?
As far as golf goes, Denise Van Outen cannot be stopped. And who in their right mind would try to stop her? Not GolfPunk, that's for sure. And we are delighted that DVO has joined us as roving video reporter!!
If you missed this when it first came out, it's well worth a look. Tiger Woods stars in a Caddyshack spoof TV advert for American Express.
The powers that be at the BBC have revealed that their coverage of the Open will end one year earlier than previously planned – and that’s next year, thank you very much.
