2011 British Open TV Schedule and Tournament Notes

THE 2011 BRITISH OPEN, the 140th edition of golf’s oldest major, gets underway on Thursday at Royal St. George’s Golf Club in Sandwich, Kent, England. Louis Oosthuizen defends in an international field of 156 players.


Purse: $7.3 million
Winner’s share: $1,305,593
Defending champion: Louis Oosthuizen


The field
Tee times
Player profiles
Course overview
Open Championship news
The Claret Jug
Past champions
Royal St. George’s website

2011 British Open Leaderboard


TV SCHEDULE

There will be lots of live TV coverage of the 2011 British Open.

United States

Thu, July 14
ESPN 4 AM-6 PM ET

Fri, July 15
ESPN 4 AM-6 PM ET

Sat, July 16
ESPN 7 AM-2:30 PM ET

Sun, July 17
ESPN 6 AM-1:30 PM ET

United Kingdom

Thursday 14 July
BBC Two, HD, Red Button and online (0900-2000)
Highlights - BBCi (2000-2030)

Friday 15 July
BBC Two, HD, Red Button and online (0900-2000)
Highlights - BBCi 2000-2030

Saturday 16 July
BBC One, HD, Red Button and online (1000-1200)
BBC One, HD, Red Button and online (1210-1715)
BBC Two, HD, Red Button and online (1715-1900)

Sunday 17 July
BBC Two, HD, Red Button and online (1100-1245)
BBC One, HD, Red Button and online (1245-1900)

Canada

Thu, July 14
TSN 4 AM-1 AM ET

Fri, July 15
TSN 4 AM-1 AM ET

Sat, July 16
TSN 7 AM- 4 AM ET

Sun, July 17
TSN 6 AM-3 AM ET

Australia

(Australian TV times via Aussie Golfer.)

Thu, July 15
Fox Sports 6 PM-4 AM

Fri, July 16
Fox Sports 6 PM-4 AM

Sat, July 17
Fox Sports 7 PM-4 AM

Sun, July 18
Fox Sports 8 PM-4 AM


−The Armchair Golfer

(Photo: Courtesy of Richard Carter, Flickr, Creative Commons license)

Golf Fix: 100th South African Open

IF YOU’RE A GOLF nut who can’t get enough golf on the tube, my tip is the 100th playing of the South African Open, this week’s event on the European Tour and Sunshine Tour. (The PGA and LPGA tours, of course, are idle. The Asian Tour is playing its season finale, the Black Mountain Masters, which is televised throughout Europe, Asia and Australia.)

Played at Durban Country Club, the South African Open field includes South African golf stars Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Tim Clark, Trevor Immelman and Louis Oosthizen, the current British Open champion. Thursday’s first round was delayed by heavy rain and will resume on Friday.

Dating back to 1903, the South African Open is one of the world’s oldest golf championships. (The oldest, of course, is the British Open, or The Open Championship, as non-Yanks call it.) Gary Player has won his homeland’s tournament 13 times. Player’s first victory came in 1956, the last in 1981. Fellow South African Bobby Locke won nine times from 1935 to 1955. Els has four South African Open titles. Goosen, Immelman and Clark have two wins apiece.

Els assessed his year and chance this week in his online diary.

“I came out of the blocks pretty fast and won twice in March during the Florida swing,” Ernie wrote, “but after the US Open my game went off the boil and it’s been a struggle to get things back on track. But, as I’ve said in my last few updates, during the last month or so there have been signs that the hard work I’ve put in has started to pay off. If I can roll the ball well on the greens this week, then I can finish the year on a high note and hopefully win my fifth national championship.”

2010 South African Open TV Schedule

All U.S. TV coverage is on Golf Channel.

Friday, 12/17
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Saturday, 12/18
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Sunday, 12/19
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET

−The Armchair Golfer

(Image: Harry Lime/Flickr)