Tough to watch — or hear — PGA on TV

THURSDAY through much of Saturday’s TNT/CBS coverage of the PGA Championship, often appeared thus: Three or four live (perhaps) golf shots, then commercials — and the same ones. Rory McIlroy endorses Omega watches and that sickening DraftKings comeon. It was a tough listen, too. On the 13th hole Saturday, coleader Tony Finau’s approach stopped about 65 feet above the hole, leaving a downhill putt that became steepest near the hole. Finau, obviously, hated his shot.

But Bill Macatee reached into his bag of goofy golf gab to declare, “Safely on.” Finau then threeputted — his first bogey of the day — “safely” into second place.

Peter Kostis, interviewing Martin Kaymer, who just had shot 64, and who won the 2010 PGA on the same course, couldn’t simply say, “You won here in 2010.” He prefaced his question with “when you came across victorious in 2010.” Ugh!

Several putts were “wellholed.” That’s another term never heard on a golf course, only on TV. Otherwise, it’s “Good putt” or “Nice putt.” You say, “Wellholed” and you’ll soon be playing alone.

And recently someone on TV, probably a Brit (or someone with a British accent), said someone “brushed in a putt.” Quickly, that has been copied by U.S. TV guys, who never before had said it.

John Daly, problem drinker, gambler and serial husband, threw another fit and club (into Lake Michigan) at the PGA. Brings to mind all the pandering TV commentators who claimed Daly’s popularity is due to “regular folks who identify with him.”

Reader Bob Eineker suggests it’s time Tiger Woods wore his red shirt on Fridays.

CBS/GC’s David Feherty, Saturday, after leader Matt Jones hit his drive into the second floor of a corporate hospitality structure: “Don’t know if that was very hospitable.”

Permit this boast: Brian Gaffney, the pro at Quaker Ridge in Scarsdale, who Friday became the first club pro since 2011 to make the PGA Championship’s cut, was the pro at N.J.’s Rumson Country Club when I beat him in a closesttothepin wager. I put up $20 to win $40 in pro shop credits then bought a $95 shirt. Hey, wait a second. So maybe he won.