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This is a list of PGA Tour on CBS commentators throughout the years. The list includes both past, and present CBS commentators covering PGA tour events. The list includes both past, and present CBS commentators covering PGA tour events.
CBS has long-term deals for the PGA Championship [6] (initially from 1958 to 1964 [7] and again starting in 1991). Frank Chirkinian was known as the 'father of televised golf' for the impact he had on golf broadcasting. He came to the attention of CBS after he impressed with his direction of the 1958 PGA Championship. Recruited by the network ...
The United States won 12½ to 11½ and Knost posted a record of 2-0-2 (W-L-H). He was the number one ranked golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for five weeks in 2007 before turning professional. Knost was awarded the inaugural Mark H. McCormack Medal by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 2007.
NBC first began televising golf events after it was awarded the television rights to the U.S. Open in 1954.The tournament continued to air on NBC through the 1965 event, however NBC rebuffed a long-term deal to broadcast the event when the United States Golf Association (USGA) decided on a true contract in 1966.
CBS Sports has been a carrier of PGA Tour golf since 1970. [1] CBS was the Tour's primary television partner from 1970 to 1998, carrying 20 and more events per season. CBS shared duties as primary Tour carrier with ABC Sports from 1999 to 2006, covering around 15 events per season.
CBS has televised the Masters in the United States every year since 1956, [1] [2] [3] when it used six cameras and covered only the final four holes. Tournament coverage of the first eight holes did not begin until 1995 because of resistance from the tournament organizers, but by 2007, more than 50 cameras were used.
Kelly worked for CBS and CBS Radio from 1974 to 1985. [1] His assignments included calling golf for the PGA Tour on CBS and PGA Tour on CBS Radio, football for the NFL on CBS and NFL on CBS Radio, and basketball for the NBA on CBS, as well as golf, track and field, bowling, and horse racing. [1]
Kelly Tilghman (born August 6, 1969, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) is a former broadcaster for Golf Channel, and NBC Sports, [1] and is the PGA Tour's first female lead golf announcer. [2] On July 29, 2020, it was announced that Tilghman was hired by CBS Sports to host The Clubhouse Report on CBS Sports Network. [3]