Video: Chinese Can't Get Enough Of Michael Phelps' (Golf) Balls
/A sneak preview of next week's episode of The Haney Project and I must say, this is a problemtic habit of the Chinese galleries at Mission Hills.
When you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
"In Play" Review, Q&A With Jimmy Roberts
/Since the Golf Channel has been a part of our golfing lives, there have been tremendous improvements in tournament coverage and some impressive original programming. Still, the channel has been shockingly devoid of journalistic endeavors that have become huge credibility boosters for ESPN or even HBO and Showtime.
Read MoreTiger Effect: NBC's Doral Sunday Rating Up 42%
/Ed Sherman reports that the
Read MoreGolf Channel Sets Some Ratings Records At Doral
/Big preliminary numbers from Friday's telecast of the 2013 WGC Cadillac:
· Round Two PRELIM: 1.5 HHs, 1,471,000 viewers. A 24 percent increase over same round in 2012 and a 45 percent increase from Thursday’s round one on Golf Channel.
· Highest rated / most watched early round since cable ratings started to be reported for this tournament (1995-2013).
· Highest rated / most watched early round since Friday’s second round at the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola (Sept. 21, 2012, 1.6 HHs / 1,559,000 viewers)
Reminder: Blue Monster Finishers Get Golf Channel Spotlight
/As I noted in this week's
Read MoreLike Hank's Job Wasn't Hard Enough Files: Now He Has To Teach Michael Phelps The Importance Of A Two-Handed Club Toss
/Chris Chase explains what happened
Read MoreTracking Johnny's Flip Flop(s) On Anchoring
/Masterful breakdown from Jaime Diaz in Golf World Monday on Johnny Miller's almost-daily position switches on the anchoring ban, with some of the switches depending on who is visiting the booth. 
Look, many have waivered because it's a complex issue. But multiple positions in a week?
Can't wait for the U.S. Open when Johnny pats Mike Davis on the back for a job well done! Too bad NBC doesn't have the PGA so that Ted Bishop could get the same pat.
Golf Channel Adds Ted Robinson, Has Unenviable Task Of Saying "Bear Trap" 4,599 Times This Weekend
/Longtime Emmy-winning NBC/USA play-by-play man Ted Robinson has been added to the Golf Channel team, and as a huge fan of his tennis announcing, this should a great move.
Read MoreVideo: Michael Breed Makes Leno's Monologue
/Go to the 6:35 mark to see Golf Channel yeller Michael Breed make Jay Leno's Tonight Show monologue in a segment called "It Looks Dirty But It's Not." (Okay, the big reveal is below the video...I couldn't help it.)
Feherty Outtakes...
/I think I find the
Read MoreR&A Promotional Film Or Golf Channel Old Course Update?
/You be the judge, but boy does it seem like Golf Channel Senior British Correspondent Tom Abbott
Read MoreWhile Tim Finchem Was Distracting Us Sunday...
/NBC used this new graphic to show where various driving distances finished on the 7th hole at Dove Mountain. I only saw it by watching the re-broadcast after reader Steve asked if I had seen it. Not coincidentally, this aired at the time Tim Finchem was live on Golf Channel talking about the tour's opposition to the anchoring ban.
It's not often we get good visual innovations in golf broadcasting that help put architectural features into context, but this one certainly does.
Also kind of amazing that Ian Poulter had the long drive.
Hank's Already Got Michael Phelps Saying It's A Process!
/While it was fun to see what Hank Haney could do with Charles Barkley's
Read MoreFriday Night Live: Golf Channel's Annual State Of Tiger's Game
/In what's become a bit of an annual gathering, Golf Channel convenes its top analysts and a
Read MoreLiving In Johnny's World Files: My Generation Was Better Vol. 399
/I often agree with Johnny Miller when he talks about the number of all-time great players that Jack Nicklaus had to beat in his prime and I'm certainly no subscriber to the "fields are deeper than ever" mentality espoused quite regularly. (Put me down for "technology has made some really good golfers better than they are" league.)
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