Golf On Your TV This Weekend

Let’s give you the tournaments you’ll see on television. Most of the action will be on Golf Channel with weekend action on CBS. Here’s the stuff you’ll see on Golf Channel.

Golf Channel Live Tournament Coverage: June 3-6

Golf Channel Spends the Week with Nicklaus at the Memorial Tournament

Couples and Pavin Headline Champions Tour’s Principal Charity Classic

Nationwide Tour Heads to ACC Country for Melwood Prince George’s County Open

the Memorial Tournament

Dates: June 3-6

Venue: Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio

Airtimes (Eastern):

Thursday                     3-6 p.m. (Live)

Friday                          3-6 p.m. (Live)

Saturday                     12:30-2:30 p.m. (Live)

Sunday                       11 a.m.-1 p.m. (Live)

Golf Channel Live Tournament Broadcast Team:

Kelly Tilghman (Play by Play)

Nick Faldo (Analyst)

Peter Oosterhuis (Tower)

Gary McCord (Tower)

Billy Andrade (On Course)

Rich Lerner (Show Host/Interviews – Thur/Fri)

Todd Lewis (Interviews – Sat/Sun)

Broadcast Notes:

·       Trackman at the Memorial – Golf Channel will utilize Trackman Doppler radar technology during its coverage of the Memorial Tournament. Trackman shows a 3-D representation of a player’s tee shot, including club movement and ball flight.

·       Scheduled in the field: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker, Rory Mcllory, Camilo Villegas, Jim Furyk, Adam Scott, Angel Cabrera, Y.E. Yang, Rickie Fowler, Retief Goosen, Henrik Stenson, Kenny Perry, Sean O’Hair, Stewart Cink, Lucas Glover, K.J. Choi, and Matteo Manassero.

Principal Charity Classic

Dates: June 4-6

Venue: Glen Oak Country Club, West Des Moines, Iowa

Airtimes (Eastern):

Friday              6:30-8:30 p.m. (Tape Delay)

Saturday          6:30-9:30 p.m. (Tape Delay)

Sunday            7-9:30 p.m. (Tape Delay)

Golf Channel Live Tournament Broadcast Team:

Brian Hammons (Play by Play)

Curt Byrum (Analyst)

Mark Lye (Tower)

Dave Marr (Tower)

Billy Ray Brown (On Course)

Broadcast Notes:

·       Fred Couples will be the featured player during Friday’s telecast.

·       Champions Tour players will give their NBA Finals predictions during tournament coverage.

·       The field includes: Fred Couples, 2010 Ryder Cup Captain Corey Pavin, Nick Price, Bernhard Langer, Mark O’Meara, Fred Funk, Hal Sutton, Jay Haas, Tom Kite, Tommy Armour III, and Bobby Clampett. 

Melwood Prince George’s County Open

Dates: June 3-6

Venue: The University of Maryland Golf Club, College Park, Md.

Airtimes (Eastern):

Thursday         12:30-2:30 p.m. (Live)

Friday              12:30-2:30 p.m. (Live)

Saturday          2:30-5 p.m. (Live)

Sunday            1:30-4 p.m. (Live)

Golf Channel Live Tournament Broadcast Team:

Jerry Foltz (Play by Play)

John Maginnes (Analyst)

Phil Parkin (Tower)

Kay Cockerill (Tower)

Stephanie Sparks (On Course)

Broadcast Notes:

·       University of Maryland basketball coach Gary Williams will serve as the tournament host and will be in the booth during the network’s coverage throughout the week.

·       Nationwide Tour professional and South Georgia Classic winner Ewan Porter will be featured during Thursday and Friday’s live tournament coverage.

·       Friday’s coverage will include the network’s “Caddy Knows Best” feature, and “Look Who’s In the Truck,” where a Nationwide Tour professional will perform a job on the production crew during live tournament action.

Celtic Manor Wales Open

Dates: June 3-6

Venue: Celtic Manor Resort, City of Newport, Wales

Airtimes (Eastern):

Thursday         10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Live)

Friday             10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (Live)

Saturday          9 a.m.-12 p.m. (Live)

Sunday            4-6 p.m. (Tape Delay)

Broadcast Notes:

·       The field includ
es: Martin Kaymer, Robert Karlsson, 2010 Ryder Cup Captain Colin Montgomerie, Ross Fisher, Luke Donald, Francesco Molinari, Edoardo Molinari, Alvaro Quiros, Miguel A. Jimenez, Danny Lee, and Chris Wood.

·       The 2010 Ryder Cup will be contested at Celtic Manor Resort in Wales this September.

CBS’ comments about the Memorial after the jump.
And CBS Sports continues its long stretch of tournaments with The Memorial.

TIGER WOODS RETURNS TO MUIRFIELD AND DEFENDS TITLE AT “THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT” ON CBS SPORTS JUNE 5-6

Four-time Memorial Tournament winner and defending champion Tiger Woods returns after three weeks off because of a neck injury to compete against one of the top fields of the year with 13 of the top-15 players in the FedExCup standings, including No. 2 World-ranked  Phil Mickelson, at THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT. CBS Sports broadcasts the third and final rounds of the Memorial Tournament on Saturday, June 5 (3:00-6:00 PM, ET) and Sunday, June 6 (1:30-6:00 PM, ET), live from Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio.

Jim Nantz, the 2009 Emmy Awar
d Winner for “Outstanding Sports Personality – Play-by-Play” and 2009 National Sportscaster of the Year, serves as anchor of CBS Sports’ golf coverage. Sir Nick Faldo, winner of six major championships and more than 40 tournaments worldwide, serves as lead analyst. Ian Baker-Finch calls the action at the 17^th hole and Gary McCord at the 16^th hole.  David Feherty and Peter Kostis serve as on-course reporters.

Last year the world’s No. 1 player shot a 7-under 65 on Sunday to beat 2002 Memorial winner Jim Furyk by a stroke and notch his fourth Memorial victory. Three-time Memorial champion Kenny Perry makes his 22nd appearance and has made the cut 16 consecutive times. Two years ago, Perry won with an 8-under-par 280, the highest winning score since 1985.  He also became the oldest winner in this tournament’s history at 47 years, 9 months, 22 days.

World Golf Hall of Fame member Jack Nicklaus hosts this tournament, which he won twice, on his signature designed Muirfield Village Golf Club.  The tournament is themed around people who have contributed to the game of golf and the 2010 Honoree is World Golf Hall of Fame member Seve Ballesteros.

            Woods, Mickelson, Furyk and Perry will compete in a strong field that includes, Steve Stricker, Ernie Els, Rory McIlroy, Geoff Ogilvy, Camilo Villegas, Zach Johnson, Tim Clark, Y.E. Yang, Angel Cabrera, Rickie Fowler, Hunter Mahan, Lucas Glover, Sean O’Hair, Mike Weir, Stewart Cink, Nick Watney, Robert Allenby, K.J. Choi, Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Ricky Barnes, Davis Love III, Mark Calcavecchia, Vijay Singh and David Duval.

Lance Barrow is Coordinating Producer and Steve Milton is Director of CBS Sports’ golf coverage.  Harold Bryant is Vice President, Production, CBS Sports.

That’s it.