Tiger Woods drives interest in NBC Sports' BritishOpen coverage
Tiger Woods’ dramatic win at The Masters last April is good news for NBC Sports Group's coverage of the historic 148th Open Championship, set to kick off July 18 at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland.
“We can always attribute quite a few eyeballs to Tiger,” notes Mike McCarley, president of golf at NBC Sports. NBC Sports will have 49 hours of live programing across its linear platforms including NBC, NBCSN and Golf Channel, which will have a 51 percent live schedule next week. Dan Hicks, Paul Azinger, Nick Faldo and Mike Tirico will anchor coverage with commentary from David Feherty. NBC will carry the final round live on Sunday, when the winner will be awarded the tournament’s famed claret jug.
There will also be several Golf Films branded shorts airing throughout Golf Channel’s coverage of the tournament. And at the conclusion of the tournament Golf Channel will roll out its latest documentary. Premiering July 22, the film offers a career retrospective on the 81-time PGA Tour winner and also handicaps Woods’ chances of surpassing Sam Snead’s record of 82 wins.
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