
NBC Sports and Golf Channel will combine to provide a record 49.5 hours of live coverage over four days from the British Open at Royal Troon. ''You go first tee shot all the way through to the raising of the claret jug,'' said Mike McCarley, president of Golf for NBC Sports Group. NBC and Golf Channel picked up the British Open a year early from ESPN, and it gives the network a major after the USGA signed on with Fox.
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