Every Golf Broadcast Needs A Bunch Of Tiger Highlights Queued Up For A Delay
People love to shit on golf broadcasts all the time. They complain about too many commercials. They complain about "playing through". They complain about not seeing enough shots, or about commentators tipping what happens on a shot that has already been spoiled. Pretty much every aspect of every golf broadcast has been picked apart and scrutinized. So when the final round of the 2025 US Open was heading towards a weather delay, it felt like it was going to be a massive afternoon on Golf Twitter of everybody bitching about the coverage.
Until NBC cracked the code...
I don't have the numbers in front of me, but there's a good chance the ratings actually went up for NBC during that weather delay. At the very least, they didn't lose a single viewer. Nobody flipping through the channels, nobody switching over to Netflix to kill some time during the delay. One moment you're watching Sam Burns taking 5 minutes to put on a glove to avoid having to hit a tee shot before the horn goes off, the next moment you have prime Tiger on your screen hunting down Rocco Mediate.
It went from getting ready to take a nice little Sunday afternoon nap, to locking in for some vintage Tiger. That's the blueprint every tournament broadcast should follow from now on. It should get to the point where viewers are almost rooting for shitty weather all weekend. All of his Majors. Any of his Players. You can pick any tournament there is and find a classic Tiger round in there somewhere. It should be easy enough to make that the new go-to. And then hopefully on the other side of the delay, you have someone holing a putt from 64 feet like JJ Spaun did to win the tournament. Best way to turn a shitty round of golf into a classic.