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The 2009 Open Championship was a men's major golf championship and the 138th Open Championship, held from 16–19 July at the Ailsa Course of the Turnberry Resort, in Ayrshire, Scotland. Stewart Cink won his only major championship after a four-hole playoff with Tom Watson .
TNT was the long-running holder of cable rights to the PGA Championship (with full coverage of the first two rounds and early coverage of the weekend rounds since 1999 after being on sister channel TBS [1] [2] since 1991) under a contract with the PGA of America. [3] From 2003 to 2009, TNT also held the cable rights to The Open Championship.
When TNT took over the American cable package for the Open in 2003, they started providing 2 hours of early morning coverage on both weekend days prior to the start of ABC's air-time. During the 2006 Open Championship, Mike Tirico filled in for Ernie Johnson, Jr., who was undergoing chemotherapy. Tirico was also hosting ABC's coverage that week ...
PGA Tour on ABC was the de facto branding used for telecasts of the main professional golf tournaments of the PGA Tour on ABC Sports in the United States until 2006. [1] ABC broadcast at least one PGA Tour event from 1962 to 2009, focusing before 1995 on the majors, with ABC serving as the primary television partner of the PGA Tour from 1999 until 2006.
In the United Kingdom, the Open Championship was historically broadcast by the BBC—a relationship which lasted from 1955 to 2015. The BBC's rights to the Open had been threatened by the event's removal from Category A of Ofcom's "listed" events, a status which legally mandated that the Open be broadcast in its entirety by a terrestrial broadcaster.
The deal also renewed broadcast deals for the Ryder Cup and the USGA Championships, including the U.S. Open. [7] NBC is the only network which provide four days of major tournament coverage (CBS, which airs the Masters and the PGA Championship, only provides weekend coverage of its tournaments; starting in 2010, the Open Championship would not ...
The 2009 United States Open Championship was the 109th U.S. Open, held June 18–22 on the Black Course of Bethpage State Park on Long Island, in Farmingdale, New York. Lucas Glover won his only major title, two strokes ahead of runners-up Ricky Barnes, David Duval, and Phil Mickelson.
The 2015 Open Championship was the final event covered by the core ESPN/ABC announcer team in place since the 1990s, nine years after first losing rights to the PGA Tour. After 2016, ESPN lost rights to the Open Championship to the Golf Channel and NBC. The LPGA's CME Group Tour Championship aired on ABC with ESPN announcers from 2015 through 2018.