There were a slew of complaints from fans<\/a> about the coverage on Sunday. CBS lost the approach shots on 18 from Rory McIlroy and Cam Young in the final group of the tournament. The network also opted not to cover most of Sam Burns\u2019 double-bogey blowup on the second hole when he was tied for the lead.<\/p>\nBut Kisner\u2019s main frustration was the constant delay between live shots and what was shown on the broadcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are we doing? You have no commercials. Play live shots,\u201d Kisner said. \u201cOur production team at NBC prides themselves at showing every shot that they possibly can live\u2026 And when we don\u2019t, we have to say, \u2018a moment ago,\u2019 because we are trying to make the whole movie make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his NBC role, the outspoken Kisner is on the call for The Players Championship, U.S. Open and British Open.<\/p>\n
CBS has generally gotten rave reviews for how they\u2019ve covered their premier golf event, but this year proved to be an exception as McIlroy earned back-to-back green jackets.<\/p>\n
Among the most notable delays was the Masters app updating Scottie Scheffler\u2019s birdie on the third hole well before CBS aired the approach and putt.<\/p>\n
Scottie Scheffler walks off the green after making a birdie on the third hole of The Masters on April 12, 2026. Bill Streicher-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
CBS also did not show Scheffler\u2019s playing partner, Haotong Li, making a 10 on the 13th hole in one of the most disastrous moments of the tournament.<\/p>\n
Kisner said he texted CBS analyst and fellow former pro Colt Knost about the situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo y\u2019all ever show a live shot?\u201d Kisner said, describing the exchange. \u201cI\u2019m better off following the f\u2013king app than your feed. So your entire Masters coverage is a fantasy world, it\u2019s bulls\u2013t. Whatever y\u2019all watch happened seven minutes ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kisner said that Knost responded that CBS shows the shots in order but Kisner had \u201cno idea what that means.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sam Burns was in trouble in the second hole of the final round of The Masters on April 12, 2026. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no idea what they are doing. They are showing every shot on tape. It\u2019s incredible.\u201d Kisner said. \u201cI don\u2019t even know how the announcers call it\u2026 It was unbelievable. I am not trying to kill them, but being on TV for 30 times and seeing what our production team does, I was just blown away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Kisner had a glimpse behind the curtain of CBS\u2019 Masters coverage \u2014\u00a0and was left astounded by what…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":727633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[47],"tags":[15328,1430,29112,69001,62,1486,3581,17648,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-727632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-cbs","tag-golf","tag-kevin-kisner","tag-nbc-sports","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sports-media","tag-the-masters","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116403898060370060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}