Following a hiatus of more than five months due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the LPGA Tour returns to competition this week with the inaugural ‘LPGA Drive On Championship’ taking place at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.
GOLF Channel today announced its coverage plans for the United States Women’s Amateur Championship (Wednesday-Sunday, Aug. 5-9), kicking off NBC Sports’ new partnership with the United States Golf Association and the return of USGA Championships telecasts to GOLF Channel and NBC.
The European Tour is set to stage its first televised event since March this week, as the British Masters begins today and continues through Saturday with live coverage airing on GOLF Channel. This marks the first of six consecutive European Tour events in as many weeks being contested in the United Kingdom. The PGA TOUR is in Minnesota this week for the 3M Open.
The Conor Moore Show presented by ClubHub, the first-of-its-kind comedy series that pokes a little fun at golf’s biggest stars, returns today with an exclusive, new streaming episode to tee off the second half of its premiere season on GOLFPASS.
GOLF Channel’s final round lead-in coverage of the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide (12:58-3:34P ET) on Sunday earned 1.47 million average viewers (+40% year-over-year), becoming the most-watched GOLF Channel lead-in telecast ever at the Memorial (2007-’20).
This past Monday, the sports networks of NBCUniversal – GOLF Channel, NBCSN, NBC Sports Regional Networks and the Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA – simulcasted Race and Sports in America: Conversations, a one-hour roundtable discussion special on race and social justice. As a result of the viewer response and feedback from the special, an encore presentation will air Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET on NBC.
The PGA TOUR is at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Ohio for the second consecutive week, as Tiger Woods, along with nine of the top-10 in the world headlining the field at the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide.
Monday at 8 p.m. ET, celebrity athletes – including two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry and Basketball Hall-of-Famer and TNT NBA analyst Charles Barkley – will be featured on Race and Sports in America: Conversations, a wide-ranging roundtable discussion special that will simulcast on GOLF Channel, NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), NBC Sports Regional Networks and the Olympic Channel.
NBC Sports Group this week will provide comprehensive on-air and digital coverage of the nation’s premier celebrity golf tournament, the American Century Championship, celebrating its 31st year and taking place at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Lake Tahoe.
The PGA TOUR is in Detroit this week for the Rocket Mortgage Classic, with GOLF Channel airing live tournament and on-site news coverage Thursday-Sunday, including Golf Central originating from Detroit Golf Club.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) today announced that the United States media rights for its championships have been transferred to NBCUniversal (NBCU), effective immediately.
– NBC Sports and American Century Investments announced today all prize money for the upcoming American Century Championship golf tournament will be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative, COVID-19 relief, including the Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation COVID-19 Response Fund and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) COVID-19 Response Fund, as well as regional Lake Tahoe non-profits
GOLF Channel concludes its three-month run of ‘Big Break’ marathons on Monday with an encore presentation of Big Break Ka’anapali, the ninth of 23 seasons of the series, featuring a cast of 12 female aspiring professional golfers competing for an LPGA Tour tournament exemption, cash and prizes.
GOLF Channel continues its ‘Big Break’ marathons on Monday with an encore presentation of Big Break Myrtle Beach, the series’ 22nd season and featuring a cast of six female and six male aspiring professional golfers competing for a PGA TOUR/LPGA Tour tournament exemption and more than $100,000 in cash and prizes.
With the return of the PGA TOUR last week, GOLF Channel’s four-day coverage of the Charles Schwab Challenge delivered record viewership for the cable network.
With many of the same techniques that helped a young Rory McIlroy learn, excel and develop a passion for golf, instructor Michael Bannon will help youngsters learn and improve at golf in a new digital video series, Breaking into the Game: Juniors with Michael Bannon, premiering today, exclusively on GOLFPASS.
GOLF Channel will televise nearly 40 hours of special themed programming over the next three days to commemorate the U.S. Open – originally scheduled to take place this week – which has been rescheduled for September at historic Winged Foot Golf Club in New York.
In celebration of the PGA TOUR’s return to competition this week, GOLF Channel will carry 11 consecutive hours of live tournament and wraparound news coverage tomorrow, from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. ET.
In celebration of the PGA TOUR’s return to competition this week, GOLF Channel will carry 11 consecutive hours of live tournament and wraparound news coverage Thursday, June 11, from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. ET.
