Fox Sports Has A Lot To Improve On In Their Golf Coverage

How Fox Sports could improve its U.S. Open coverage, more Media Circus 

Comments & criticisms (ESPN.com)

10 ways Fox Sports can improve its golf broadcasts

1. Holly Sonders was underutilized and in the wrong role as interviewer. Not a strength. She’d have been better in the role of moderator, as she did for Golf Channel, which leads us to…

2. Curt Menefee, an otherwise outstanding broadcaster and host of Fox NFL Sunday. But his limited knowledge of golf became apparent early in the week. Sonders would have been a better fit.

3. Less USGA worship. It’s not going to happen, of course, because the USGA is Fox’s “partner,” as they like to say. To its credit, though, Fox did not shy from reporting on course criticisms, which by extension were USGA criticisms.


5. Less talking, period. Do we need to be told that the second shot Jordan Spieth hit to the 18th green on Sunday was a great one, when we could see it for ourselves? Cutting to the set for roundtable discussions was overdone, too. Show the golf.

7. Lose the big screen television during interviews. We don’t need a picture in a picture, and it made for awkward exchanges between Sonders and her interview subjects.

10. Increase the use of its graphics showing the location of the hole and the distance to it. It’s hard for the viewer to ascertain where the pin is from cameras behind the golfers.

Complete list (GolfDigest.com)