June 07, 2015

BBC Ready To Give Up Open Championship Coverage

June 07, 2015/ Geoff Shackelford

Ewan Murray reports the inevitable: BBC will be ready to give up their Open Championship rights after this year's edition at St. Andrews.

Sky Sports takes over UK coverage in 2017. The news left BBC as a two-year lameduck.

The rights to American coverage are currently held by ESPN, but those rights beyond 2017 are due to be decided any day.

Geoff Shackelford

Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning Drive, is co-host of The Ringer's ShackHouse is the author of eleven books.