Ogilvy Win Upstaged By Mark Rolfing's Declaration Of Undying Love For All Things Hawaii
It only went overboard when the Golf Channel/NBC announcer gave those big props to the 50 spectators braving Sunday morning's rain and those frigid temps in the low 70s.
But at the conclusion of Geoff Ogilvy's impressive six-shot win, Rolfing noted that besides all of the week's great shots and relentless plugs for the great state of Hawaii, other highlights were those witty Boo Weekley interviews. I did catch one Friday where Rich Lerner teed Boo up by asking if he would be eating sushi for dinner (thankfully, for the sake of the poor folks in the PGA Tour Fines and Suspensions-We-Won't-Talk-Publicly-About Department still saddled with John Daly paperwork, Boo didn't touch it).
However, a reader sent in this note regarding Saturday's interview:
So last night I'm watching the Boo interview live from Kapalua and as usual the announcers are baiting him for redneckese. He obliges with hunting humor and the like. Then Lerner goes too far and asks him about his upcoming appearance at Qatar. Something along the lines of, has anybody prepped you about the culture over there. Boo's answer was "All I know is I don't have to wear one of them turbans". Awkward silence, then interview over. They replayed the broadcast and had Boo's interview up until that question (went to commercial before).
Wow, something controversial emanating from a Kapalua broadcast position? Can't be!
Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 07:02 PM 20 Comments | in 2009 PGA Tour, Boo Weekley, Geoff Ogilvy, Golf and Television
Reader Comments (20)
ok, so maybe its more than 2. no more than like 4 though. and ANGC doesn't really count anymore.
As a relatively new TGC viewer I watched a about two hours of the coverage. Nick was his usual self. I don't exactly understand the antipathy to Kelly; she is no worse than most golf hosts. Rolfing adds nothing, but is fairly benign. Lerner on the other hand is a complete idjit, trying to be an amalgam of Jack Whitaker, Jim McKay, and Frank Deford. After an earlier round he asked DL3 what this tournament meant to him since he was in Hawai'i when his father died in a plane crash all those years ago. Not only was the question rude, it had absolutely no relevance to anything about the Tour, the tournament, or DL3's current performance.
It's all Roone Arledge's fault. Remember "Up Close and Personal" back when ABC had a monopoly on the Olympics? Ever since we have been inundated with so much of this stuff that when NBC does the Olympics all we seem to see is whatshisname, that little guy from St. Louis, handing the broadcast off to some "reporter" with the latest on Micheal Phelps's mother's struggles as a single mother. Or something other than an actual Olympic event.
My finger is always on the 'mute' button especially when the ' GC crew' gets 'rolling'.
one of the things it does that i really like is sometimes after i fast-forward through some blather it will only give part of the soundtrack. when it does this, you cannot hear any commentary, and the only sound is whatever is being picked up by the ambient mikes pointed at whatever player is being shown.
it is like a breath of fresh air to get to see a guy hit a shot accompanied by nothing but the player-caddy discussion and then the sounds of the golfswing. i think the dvr is about to fail, but i like this particular malfunction a lot.
As an interviewer, though, he usually comes off as a smart-aleck college kid patronizing one of the townies. I hope the producers force him to rewatch the Boo interview over and over again, to make him realize just how degrading it was to all concerned. Alas, I fear that the producers are the source of the problem.