Saturday, March 3, 2007

What's Better Than Golf? More Golf!

The Masters Golf Tournament will have one hour of coverage on its Web site before the network telecast begins, an example of how new Augusta National chairman Billy Payne wants to see how new media can expand the tournament's audience. It starts April 5, so get your rest. It's called Amen Corner Live, after the famous part of the golf course.

Woo hoo! Oh baby. I got a little 7-iron in my pants over that news.

Unfortunately for Internet viewers, the extra hour involves lining up putts, bending over and bending back, taking practice swings, talking to the caddy, leaning on the club, marking the ball, cleaning the greens, asking for quiet, lining up the putt again, taking more practice swings, asking the caddy to repeat what he said before you started cleaning the green, asking for quiet and looking askance at the overall lay of the land.
After that, it's a solid twelve minutes of heart-stopping PGA Golf-type action. Although, watching the ball in flight takes up some of that time, too.

OK - eight minutes of actual people moving and doing something significant. Don't miss it.

Three words:

Windows Media Creator.

1 comment:

Sparky Duck said...

keep that attitude up and there will be no pictures from the Heritage for you!