also saw year-over-year increases<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThat sentiment across sports has just become much more positive and just more part of the way media companies collaborate on their rights deals,\u201d Gambuzza said of the rights partners working together. \u201cThat is a topic where years ago it was more difficult to get one partner to push to another or to say, \u2018Hey, we\u2019re going to be here.\u2019 But from a property standpoint, we just want the fans to know where to go and how to consume it. So, I think we\u2019re making progress in that regard.\u201d<\/p>\n
The postseason coverage on ESPN this year also will be a simulcast of the PGA Tour Live feed, but the tour and ESPN plan on adding more bells and whistles than what were included at the Farmers. Expected enhancements include extra cameras and drones, enhanced audio and 3D course and hole modeling. The tour also is in discussions with the network to have ESPN personalities host the windows on site from PGA Tour Studios in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.<\/p>\n
Alongside the linear windows, PGA Tour Live will continue to have full-day coverage across all three events.<\/p>\n
ESPN has continued to lean in on golf coverage. It carries weekday play at both the Masters and PGA Championship and has broadcast TGL over its first two seasons. ESPN has been seen by sources as the front-runner to retain TGL rights in 2027 and beyond. Pat McAfee has also been a heavy promoter of golf, having the likes of Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young and Nelly Korda on his show as guests. In fact, as Gambuzza and Rolapp were walking the halls of ESPN\u2019s Bristol campus last week, McAfee was live interviewing U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark.<\/p>\n
All that comes within the context of the PGA Tour\u2019s upcoming rights deals. The current agreements run through 2030, but with the vast structural changes coming in 2028, the tour is expected to renegotiate those agreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp is once again tapping into his deep media connections to enhance coverage of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":907219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[47],"tags":[5723,1430,81333,1456,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-907218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-espn","tag-golf","tag-golf-channel","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116849722398961418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907218","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=907218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}