... but no one saw it!

SKY SPORTS drew the wrath of its golf subscriber base after failing to show live coverage of the conclusion of the Andalucia Masters yesterday. Irate fans made their feelings known after the broadcaster tweeted that they wouldn’t be showing any live play because of ‘circumstances beyond our control’. Adding insult to injury, they were still showing Sunday’s play on the golf channel yesterday morning while Sergio Garcia was completing his victory. ‘Owing to circumstances beyond my control, I won’t be paying my bill this month,’ was the prevailing tone of the criticism, with many unhappy that the broadcaster didn’t show the USPGA Championship in August either, despite proclaiming themselves the ‘home of live golf’. The circumstances alluded to were that the European Tour’s broadcast trucks had packed up and were on the way to Turkey for a tournament that doesn’t begin until a week on Thursday. A European Tour spokesman said they had to leave on Sunday ‘to ensure their timely arrival’.