Let me begin by saying that as a rule, I can do without TV fluff pieces. Show me golf. That’s why I tuned in. But like anything in life, there is the occasional rule breaker.
On Friday, during NBC’s broadcast of the second round of the 122nd U.S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, director Tommy Roy elected to cut away from the action for a pre-produced piece. Perhaps you used it as a chance to get up from the La-Z-Boy and refill your drink, grab a pre-dinner snack or make a pit stop at the lieu. If you did, you missed out on a fun feature that gave viewers a different lens into why, beyond being one of America’s great classic courses, it wouldn’t suck to be a member of The Country Club.
NBC’s longtime essayist Jimmy Roberts told me something that I did not know, the story of the Fernando.
