Bringing this to the 2013 US PGA Championship there were many factors that lead to the fact I really hated this weekend. But let’s just stick to the most important ones:

1. Duties in the office hindered me to follow the major action already on Thursday and Friday. Hence I missed half of the tournament. There are worse things in life but in a major, I’d really love to be more close to the action.

2. Contrary to my assumption the BBC was not broadcasting the tournament in free-TV, therefore only SKY subscribers could follow the game comfortably on telly and enjoy the hours of golf. On top of that the PGATOUR website wasn’t streaming to the UK. So I had to find one of these legal grey zone live streams, with weird ads to click away, strange files getting automatically downloaded and dozens of new windows opening and presenting bare naked women offering their services.
Needless to say that the stream quality was total rubbish! As a consequence I gave up searching and frustrating and decided not to watch the golf – which is quite a decision for a weekend that was in the beginning totally dedicated to this event!

3. Points 1 and 2 led to the situation that I had to rely on my lovely iPad and the PGA Championship app. To cut a long story short, I was very underwhelmed to see the range of functions and possibilities with this tool. Very few videos, very little information flow and faulty alerts which resulted in very little trustworthiness throughout the entire tournament.

4. Leaving the technical and broadcasting issues behind, let’s discuss the golf and the players. I know it’s the the character of the game but watching players like Nicolas Colsaerts, Bubba Watson, Luke Donald and Ernie Els missing the cut is tough, really tough! From what I was able to see, the course looked fair; tricky rough, tough hole locations, bunkers in play but fair overall.

5. I would have appreciated if one of my favourite players was in contention to win. Saturday, the classic moving day, already showed that my golf heroes wouldn’t have anything to do with winning the Wanamaker Trophy whatsoever. Guys like Phil Mickelson, Brandt Snedeker, or others never really had a chance to make the way up in the leaderboard. A shame.

6. Instead there were some guys on top who I either dislike or at least would have appreciated that they plummeted on Sunday. It sounds very harsh and I’m a bit sorry to write all this but I don’t want to see guys like Dufner and Furyk all day, neither do I want them to lift the trophy in the end!
Dufner is a weird little robot, no enthusiasm, no human reaction, no passion, no sight of sympathy or emotion. Just a bellied clown with a pretty pathetic pre-shot routine and 50kg too much on the hips.
Then Jim Furyk, not really much more likable with the–by far–ugliest golf swing in the world… In that regard the tournament really had the worst outcome I could have wished for: a fat guy who is the opposite of a perfect promotion for the game of golf and a guy who’s swing might be effective but makes people dizzy and ill just watching it on telly.
I would have cheered for Henrik Stenson, Adam Scott or Dustin Johnson… but life is unfair–and nobody is asking me anyway!

I guess I’m looking forward to next year’s major tournaments. #SoLong #NotDufnering

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