Networks missing in LPGA action

RE: TV SPORTS COVERAGE

All Canadians, whether golf fans or not, have every reason to be proud of Brooke Henderson for winning the LPGA Canadian Open, the first homegrown winner since 1973.

But where were Canada’s self-proclaimed national sports networks when this momentous event occurred? TSN and Sportsnet were both noticeably missing in action.

While the 20-year-old Henderson was making history and her country proud, TSN was dedicating four of its channels to the same exhibition American football game and the other to a Little League baseball game featuring South Korea and Hawaii.

TSN’ 4K channel was “off air” as it usually seems to be. Sportsnet, meanwhile, was showing the San Diego Padres-Los Angeles Dodgers game on five of its channels and the same European soccer game on the other two.

As for our national networks, CTV was featuring reruns of old syndicated American sitcoms, Global was simulcasting CBS men’s golf coverage out of New Jersey, while the CBC was using our tax dollars to provide the 2003 movie Hulk.

That left the U.S.-based Golf Channel to make Canadians proud with its coverage. Even though it was tapedelayed coverage, at least it was coverage.

Congratulations and well done, Ms. Henderson. Canada was watching you make us proud. Well, other than Canada’s sports and national networks, that is.

Doug Foley, Hamilton