NEW YORK, July 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM
announced today that it will offer subscribers extensive coverage
of the 2015 Open Championship, golf's oldest major championship,
from the storied Old Course at St.
Andrews in Fife,
Scotland.
SiriusXM will air 37 hours of live play-by-play, provided by
both ESPN Audio and IMG, across all four days of tournament play,
July 16th through the
19th, as well as daily talk programming leading up to
the tournament, on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio, which is available to
subscribers on satellite radios (Sirius channel 208, XM channel
93), on the SiriusXM app and online at SiriusXM.com.
Tournament play-by-play will begin on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio at
3:00 am ET on Thursday and Friday,
and at 4:00 am ET on Saturday and
Sunday, and will continue through the conclusion of each
day's play. ESPN is the rightsholder to Open Championship
broadcasts in the U.S. Their play-by-play broadcast will also air
on ESPN Radio (SiriusXM 83) and ESPN Xtra (SiriusXM 84) starting at
7:00 am ET on Thursday and Friday,
9:00 am ET on Saturday, and
8:00 am ET on Sunday.
Considered by many to be the "home of golf," the Old Course at
St. Andrews is one of the oldest
golf courses in the world and has hosted the Open Championship 28
times. This year's field is highlighted by Jordan Spieth who will be attempting to capture
the third leg of golf's Grand Slam after winning the Masters and
U.S. Open earlier this season. He will be competing against
many of the world's best, including 2013 Open Champion Phil Mickelson, Bubba
Watson, Dustin Johnson,
Henrik Stenson, Louis Oosthuizen, who finished as runner-up to
Spieth at the U.S. Open and was the last player to win the Open at
St. Andrews, and many more.
In addition to the live tournament coverage, SiriusXM will offer
daily golf talk and analysis throughout Open Championship week on
SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio.
Highlights for the week include:
Three-time Open Champion Nick
Faldo, whose 1990 title came at St. Andrews, will host a new edition of his
SiriusXM show, Nick Faldo Radio, on Tuesday, July 14 at 2:00
pm ET.
John Daly, who won the
1995 Open Championship at St.
Andrews, will host his SiriusXM show, Hit It Hard, on
Wednesday, July 15 at 2:00 pm ET.
On Monday at 1:00 pm ET, SiriusXM
will offer a live broadcast of the World Golf Hall of Fame's
induction ceremony for the Class of 2015, which includes
Laura Davies, David Graham, Mark O'Meara and architect A.W. Tillinghast.
SiriusXM's programming lineup during Open Championship Week will
also feature shows hosted by Chris
DiMarco, Hank
Haney, Claude Harmon
III, David
Leadbetter, Jim
McLean, Matt
Adams, Mark
Carnevale, Debbie
Doniger, Brian
Katrek, John
Maginnes, Carl
Paulson, Dennis
Paulson, Ben
Shear, Jeff Warne
and others. Visit www.SiriusXM.com/SiriusXMPGATOURRadio for a
daily schedule.
SiriusXM airs live coverage of all four major championships –
The Masters, U.S. Open, Open Championship and PGA Championship – as
well as most of the PGA Tour events throughout the season,
including the PLAYERS Championship and all FedExCup Playoff
tournaments.
About SiriusXM
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