Golf fans' screams spark 'hate' from ESPN's Rome
Here's a quick way to improve golf telecasts. Give fans something, anything, to yell besides "You da man!" and "Get in the hole!" During Sunday's WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship on NBC, two fans were in such a hurry to shout "Get in the hole!" after Tiger Woods hit his tee shot, they screamed it in unison.
Fans should be free to boo or cheer whoever they want. But fans are now screaming "Get in the hole!" when Woods, Phil Mickelson and others tee off on par-4 and par-5 holes, ESPN's Jim Rome says. "If you're saying these things, stop doing it immediately," Rome said during Friday's Jim Rome Is Burning. "The players hate you, other fans hate you and, most importantly, I hate you. You're bringing everybody down, and you're embarrassing yourself."
TV networks can't edit out the screams without losing audio of player reactions and conversations with their caddies, NBC spokesman Brian Walker says. "You can't stop the gallery, you can only contain them," he jokes.
After Woods thumped Stewart Cink with an 8-and-7 victory Sunday, NBC's Roger Maltbie nailed Cink with a pretty tough question: "What's it like standing on the first tee when you know your opponent is better than you, he knows he's better than you and everybody else knows he's better than you?" Cink admitted it was "a tough task."
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