Sky Sports football presenter David Jones has embarked on a new series with The PGA to lower his golf handicap thanks to the help of PGA Professional Gary Munro. The series – entitled Journey to Single Figures – documents Jones’ progress over a six-month period, giving an inside track of the learning process from the perspective of both player and coach. The series complements the recent launch of The PGA’s PGA Play website, which enables golfers and all those interested in taking up the […]
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Television coverage of the PGA EuroPro Tour‘s Lancer Scott Championship, which took place at Machynys Peninsula between August 10-12, had to pulled from Sky Sports Golf’s TV schedule last week due to excessive swearing by players. Nine instances of bad language were caught by microphones covering the event, which was due to be aired Sky Sports Golf. The EuroPro Tour’s production team was able to edit out five of the profanities, but a further four instances of swearing were unable […]
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Sky Sports is to re-run the final hour of last year’s Players Championship with live insight from tournament winner Rory McIlroy. McIlroy will join Nick Dougherty and Brandel Chamblee live from 9.35pm tonight (Tuesday, April 28) to watch the closing holes of last year’s Players Championship as the current world number one came out on top in dramatic fashion. Sky Sports Golf customers can tune in to follow the action earlier in the day from 6pm, before McIlroy describes in his own words his winning shots as […]
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Sky Sports is to re-run the final hour of last year’s Players Championship with live insight from tournament winner Rory McIlroy. McIlroy will...
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The BBC will not show any live golf next year for the first time since 1955 after the public service broadcaster lost the rights to live coverage of the Masters. Sky Sports will be the sole broadcasters of next year’s tournament from Augusta, which takes place from April 9-12. The BBC lost the rights to The Open in 2016, ending a 60-year run with golf’s oldest major championship, while the corporation’s live Masters coverage was pared back to two days […]
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