Russell Henley earned the biggest win of his career at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but no one got to see his entire round on Sunday, thanks to NBC showing the world yet again that it doesn’t fully grasp how to broadcast a golf tournament.
The commercial overload and the exhausting rate of ‘Playing Through’ segments was nothing new; fans have been programmed to just accept watching golf in a tiny box each weekend that NBC has the broadcast, but the straight-up missing the golf shot that won Russell Henley the golf tournament was next-level embarrassing.
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