NEW YORK, July 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM
announced today that it will offer subscribers extensive coverage
of the 2016 Open Championship, golf's oldest major championship,
from the Old Course at Royal Troon in South Ayrshire, Scotland.
SiriusXM will air more than 40 hours of live play-by-play,
featuring both the ESPN Audio and IMG's @TheOpen Radio broadcasts,
across all four days of tournament play, July 14th through the 17th,
as well as daily talk programming throughout the week on SiriusXM
PGA TOUR Radio, which is available to subscribers on satellite
radios (Sirius channel 208, XM channel 92) and on the SiriusXM
app.
Tournament play-by-play will begin on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio at
3:00 am ET and will continue through
the conclusion of each day's play. ESPN owns the rights to Open
Championship broadcasts in the U.S. Their play-by-play broadcast
will also air on ESPN Radio (SiriusXM 80) on Saturday and
Sunday.
Since opening in 1878, Royal Troon has grown into one of the
most storied golf clubs in the world, hosting the Open Championship
eight times before 2016. Dustin Johnson, who captured his
first major at last month's U.S. Open, will try to become the
seventh straight player from the United
States to win the Open Championship at Royal Troon in a
field that also includes World #1 Jason
Day, past Open Champions Phil
Mickelson (2013), Rory
McIlroy (2014) and Zach
Johnson (2015), Jordan
Spieth, Henrik Stenson,
Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler and many more of the world's
best.
"Royal Troon is one of the game's most historic venues and its
many challenges make it one of the hardest tests for the world's
best golfers," said Scott
Greenstein, SiriusXM's President and Chief Content
Officer. "SiriusXM will give fans access to the tournament's
action and drama with more than 40 hours of live coverage from the
course. They'll also get an unmatched perspective on the Open
Championship from several major champions, including Mark Calcavecchia, who won at Royal Troon in
1989."
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:
Mark Calcavecchia, who won the
Open Championship at Royal Troon in 1989, will host his SiriusXM
show, Golf According to Calc, on Wednesday, July 13, at 12:00 pm ET.
Three-time top 10 Open finisher Hale
Irwin will host a new edition of his SiriusXM show, The
Follow Through, on Wednesday, July
13, at 1:00 pm ET. That
will be followed by The Larry Mize Show at 2:00 pm ET.
World Golf Hall of Famer Ben
Crenshaw, who collected four consecutive top five finishes
at The Open from 1977 through 1980, will host Crenshaw on
Golf today, July 12, at
2:00 pm ET.
Craig Stadler will host a new
edition of his SiriusXM show, I am the Walrus, tonight,
July 12, at 8:00pm ET.
SiriusXM's programming lineup during Open Championship week will
also feature shows hosted by top instructors Hank Haney, Dave
Stockton, Jim McLean and Golf
Channel's Michael Breed, as well as
Lou Holtz, Chris DiMarco, Mark
Lye, Mark Carnevale,
Dennis Paulson, Carl Paulson, John
Maginnes, Brian Bateman,
John Feinstein, Matt Adams, Brian
Katrek, Conrad Ray,
Kyle Gentry, Debbie Doniger, Frank
Darby, Brian Crowell,
Ben Shear 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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radio company measured by revenue and has more than 30 million
subscribers. SiriusXM creates and offers commercial-free
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SiriusXM Music for Business provides commercial-free music to
a variety of businesses. SiriusXM holds a minority interest
in SiriusXM Canada which has approximately 2.7 million subscribers.
SiriusXM is also a leading provider of connected vehicles services
to major automakers, giving customers access to a suite of safety,
security, and convenience services including automatic crash
notification, stolen vehicle recovery assistance, enhanced roadside
assistance and turn-by-turn navigation.
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