It's not Sky it's the pretentious fecknuggets at Augusta who heavily restrict what can be broadcast and don't allow them to show play from certain holes or certain times.
The same pompous assholes who dictate that the commentators can't say "rough" and have to call it the "second cut" and fans/crowds/spectators must be called "patrons".
I love the tournament and the course is the stuff of dreams but the people who run it can go feck themselves with a broom wrapped in coarse sandpaper.
Gary McCord has not been able to commentate with the rest of his CBS colleagues since 1994, he has been excommunicated by the Masters for having the gall to describe the17th. green that year as having been ‘bikini-waxed’ as it was very fast that year. He also made light of the 17th. green that year as having ‘body bags’ behind it, signifying that the golfers who missed the green on their approach found it impossible to recover from.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ers-gary-mccord-cbs-augusta-national/2074379/
Two on-air lines from McCord, plus a cnutish Tom Watson, spelled doom for McCord, he hasn’t been back to The Masters since.
Patrons also cannot run on the course at any time. It always was a daily early morning highlight watching out of shape patrons speed walking as fast as they could once on the grounds & through the gates, carrying multiple folding spectator chairs in order to get them set up wherever they could. There is a gentleman’s agreement that started decades ago which allows for the patrons to plant their empty spectator chairs anywhere behind the ropes & none of them get fecked with or moved by another spectator; most are used by other spectators early in the round. When the chairs’ owners returned, its occupants would get up & move. And, through the years, certain patrons with chairs would get specific front row chair locations by specific greens / tees. It was actually possible to see the same patrons in the same chairs on specific days by the 16th. tee, the 17th. green, the 5th. green, the 12th. tee, etc. Some spectator locations have become bleachers in recent years, the saving of bleacher seats for specific patrons still exists.
AGNC also imports hundreds upon hundreds of bloomed, mostly mature azalea bushes & plant them the week prior to the tournament to ensure that there will be color on the television screens during the tournament. They also utilize a freezing method for the azaleas to try to timed bloom. It has dyed its bodies of water on the course blue in the past, not sure if it is still done nowadays.
The Masters / Augusta National Golf Club is its own breed, for better or for worse.
