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Adam Woodard

Just hours into the 2023 Ryder Cup, golf fans were already fed up with the TV broadcast

NBC Sports and Golf Channel employees may want to stay off social media for the next few days.

Not even two hours in to the coverage of the Friday foursomes matches at the 2023 Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Italy and television viewers who were awake at 1 a.m. ET for the start were already fed up with the coverage (or lack thereof).

Airing on USA Network, the broadcast missed the introductions and tee shots from the third match of Shane Lowry and Sepp Straka vs. Rickie Fowler and Collin Morikawa and showed more commercials than golf shots.

This year’s broadcast features a score bug in the bottom right of the screen that shows the matches and live results, which is a nice innovation, except when the coverage doesn’t provide context for how those scores came to be.

Check out the early reaction to the TV coverage of the 2023 Ryder Cup in Italy.

'I might go back to bed'

'No idea how we even got there'

'Bombarded with commercials'

Missing shots

There are four alternate shot matches on the course. How is any shot missed?

Zing!

Solid joke given the fact that Europe led in all four matches when this was posted.

https://twitter.com/realsportspost/status/1707664367032901675

'I have no idea what's happening'

Can we get Sky Sports in the U.S.?

Conspiracy?

Who needs a broadcast when there's Twitter, or X, or whatever it's called now

Is it April yet?

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