Another Take On R&A's Move To Sky From BBC

The Scotsman's Martin Dempster explains why there are concerns in Scotland that The Open Championship moving to satellite TV from "terrestrial" BBC will not help efforts to grow the game, while the R&A takes an estimated £3 million more per year to have grow-the-game spending money.

Dempster writes:

We’ve already seen lots of youngsters lose interest in the nation’s football team due to almost every Scotland game these days being screened on satellite television.

Though different in that it is predominantly an individual sport, we can expect the same thing in golf in years to come when only those kids with parents able or willing to cough up the subscription will either know or show any interest in the next Rory McIlroy or Lydia Ko, who, at 17, has just become golf’s youngest No 1.

Among active players, Lee Westwood has been very critical of the move.