Golf on TVMajors

Golf is one of the UK's most popular sports

Whilst golf is one of the UK's most popular sports, TV coverage is surprisingly open and hasn't been dominated (yet) by one of the big subscriptions services.

Although the British Open is a free -to-air (Group B) tournament with highlights appearing on the BBC, the Beeb also has the rights to the US Masters, at least in 2007.

Elsewhere among the majors, Setanta has snapped up the rights to the US PGA Tour and Sky Sports have the rights to the US Open until 2009. So to watch these you'll need to subscribe to one of the pay TV services.

Golf: Majors matches
TV source	The Open (British)	The Masters (US)a	US PGA Tour	The US Openb
Sky	BBC highlights	BBC	Live on Setanta Golf  (Setanta package)	Sky Sports
Freesat	BBC highlights	BBC	No	No
Virgin Media	BBC highlights	BBC	Live on Setanta Golf(Setanta Sports bundle)	Sky Sports
Freeview	BBC highlights	BBC	Live on Setanta Sports 1	No
Top-up TV Anytime	BBC highlights	BBC	Live on Setanta Sports 1	No
Tiscali TV	BBC highlights	BBC	Live on Setanta Golf	Sky Sports
BT Vision	BBC highlights	BBC	Live on Setanta Sports 1 and non-live, on Setanta Sports Replay	No

Table notes

a

BBC up to the end of 2007

b

Full coverage Sky Sports. Free-to-air (Group B) - BBC showing highlights in 2007

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