The last golf major of the 93rd PGA Championship at the Atlanta Athletic Club will get wall to wall coverage this week. CBS and TNT will have every storyline covered and Sirius – XM has the radio coverage while broadband can be found at CBSSports.com as well as PGA.com so no matter where you are following the action will not be a problem.
For those who have DirecTV as always they will offer multiple channels to allow the viewers to keep with action on all the closing holes. Plus usual split feed box that golf fans have come to expect offering the TNT and CBS feeds.
TNT will have all the cable coverage today with extensive coverage starting each day at 1pm and going to 7pm. They will also have early weekend coverage starting Saturday and Sunday 11a.m. – 2 p.m. The network will have Ernie Johnson (play-by-play), Ian Baker-Finch (analyst), Billy Kratzert (analyst) and Jim Huber. CBS will offer coverage from Bill Macatee and David Feherty immediately following the Late Night with David Letterman on tonight at 12:35-1:07pm.
CBS has the weekend prime coverage starting Saturday and Sunday at 2pm with the broadcast scheduled to end at 7pm.
The CBS crew of Jim Nantz and Sir Nick Faldo will anchor the network’s coverage as well as join the TNT weekday coverage. Also doing double duty for CBS and TNT will be Ian Baker-Finch, Gary McCord, David Feherty, Peter Kostis, Bill Macatee, Verne Lundquist and Peter Oosterhuis.
I asked Sir Nick Faldo about this year’s PGA Championship.
Faldo on the strong class of young players who could win this week:” You have Martin Kaymer (26), Rory McIlroy (22), Jason Day (23), and Dustin Johnson (27). Charl Schwartzel (who is 26), is the 2011 Masters champ. There are still plenty of other young guns in their 20’s that can win they just aren’t as consistent the guys I mentioned.”
Faldo on caddie Stevie Williams:”I think this story was a onetime thing. It was the first time since Tiger let Stevie go so clearly having them on the same course at the same time was a good story. Now I think we will move on and the focus will return to the golfers. Caddies are part coaches, part cheerleaders and part physiatrist making a good one well worth keeping. However as always the golfer and the caddie have to be on the same page for things to work.”
