Once again, golf fans are faced with a half-hour gap in live TV coverage Sunday, this time from the Northern Trust Open at Riviera in Los Angeles. We tweeted the Northern Trust’s Twitter feed and got back the suggestion to check out the PGA Tour’s ShotTracker page, which we did. It’s pretty cool. It’s not live TV, but you can “follow” the action shot by shot.
If you look at the screen grab it takes a few seconds to figure out — but then you realize how the thing works. It basically follows each player shot by shot on any given hole and reports the length of each shot. It also has color-codes to show where shots landed, rough, fairway, etc. It updates pretty quickly with a good Internet connection; not sure if there is a mobile option or not (didn’t see one on the page and couldn’t find one in the Android store) but without live TV it’s as good as say, ESPN’s GameCenter service.
We’d still like wall to wall live coverage online. But until that day happens, I guess ShotTracker is our only hope.
Looking for some exiting PGA TOUR action? Then get ready for the Mayakoba Golf Classic on the stunning Playa del Carmen in Mexico, airing Feb 22-26 on the Golf Channel. All the info you need is right here: http://bit.ly/ykEhe6
In the future, we should charge money for blatant ads like this one. But this time we’ll say thanks for reading Fred. Are you going, or do they just pay you to post about the event?