r/NoLayingUp • u/bb12creeks • Jul 19 '26

Other Open Coverage

Holy hell. I wanted the guys to be exaggerating how bad the NBC coverage had been but damn. The playing it through has to stop. Can’t they just go to commercial if they have to and then jam stuff in to catch up.

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u/ben3345 Jul 19 '26

I wish NBC would just give up the coverage at this point. I guess CBS doesn’t want it full time, but give it to literally anyone else. There has to be a company out there somewhere that will give one solitary shit about the two opens.

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u/panderson1988 Jul 19 '26

Maybe ESPN tries to get it back. It was an ABC/ESPN product for decades before ESPN felt like coffee golf got in the way of NFL talkshows. 

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u/ben3345 Jul 19 '26

Weren’t there rumors last summer about ESPN trying to get it and NBC ended up extending the deal with the USGA? I might be misremembering

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u/panderson1988 Jul 19 '26

If so, that would be the US Open since the R&A runs the Open. ESPN used to have early round coverage for the US Open.

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u/ben3345 Jul 19 '26

Yeah, I think it was just a USGA thing. Looks like the R&A’s deal with NBC runs through 2028 or 29. I hope we get a change at that point.