Wanted: Network To Air USGA's Payne Stewart Doc

Fresh and innovative is off to a roaring start!

Martin Kaufman reviews the "Payne" documentary airing on soon-to-be-former-USGA-partner NBC Sunday at 5 pm ET and then again Monday on Golf Channel at 10 pm ET. But more eye-opening was this bit about a competing USGA-financed film by the renowned sports documentarian Ross Greenburg about the 1999 U.S. Open.

If you want to see that one, you’ll have to go to Pinehurst. The documentary is not presently scheduled to be shown on television, though Sarah Hirshland, the USGA’s senior managing director of business affairs, said she is exploring distribution options. The documentary could be made available digitally or via cable television, but she said no plans have been finalized.

For now, it will be shown at Tufts Park in the Village of Pinehurst as part of the U.S. Open Experience. It will debut June 10 at 9 p.m.

Not even Fox Sports 2 would take it?