a report by Coleman Bentley in\u00a0Golf Digest<\/a>, early risers in Canada who were planning on catching the beginning of this year\u2019s Open Championship, which began in the overnight hours in North America, \u201cwere greeted by golf instruction content instead.\u201d For the second straight year, it appears as if several local affiliates forgot to switch Golf Channel\u2019s feed from its instructional content to live tournament coverage, with some social media users claiming the outage lasted up to five hours before it was fixed. Other users claimed it was actually the\u00a0third consecutive year this had happened.<\/p>\nFirst- and second-round Open Championship coverage in Canada was slated to air on Golf Channel. In the United States, that coverage is airing on USA Network. It appears as if local cable providers simply left the U.S. feed running, which was airing instructional video when coverage began at 4 a.m. ET, rather than swapping the feed to tournament coverage.<\/p>\n
Per\u00a0Golf Digest, the outage occurred across multiple Canadian television providers, including Rogers and Bell. Rogers, for its part, responded to at least one frustrated fan on social media, noting it had \u201cadvised [its] partners who are investigating.\u201d<\/p>\n