SiriusXM and its PGA Tour Radio Channel announced plans to offer extensive coverage of the 119th U.S. Open Championship, this week from Pebble Beach Golf Links in California.
Beginning Thursday, June 13th, SiriusXM will provide listeners with live hole-by-hole coverage of the event during all four rounds. Taylor Zarzour and Brian Katrek will serve as the broadcast’s play-by-play announcers, with Carl Paulson and Mark Carnevale filling the role of in-booth analysts. A group of reporters providing on-course commentary for SiriusXM during the U.S. Open Championship will consist of Fred Albers, Maureen Madill, John Maginnes, Dennis Paulson and Bill Rosinski.
Debbie Doniger will be present at the tournament, conducting pre and post-round interviews with the competing golfers. Hosting live post-round shows each of the four tournament days will be Mark Lye and Kraig Kann.
“Pebble Beach is one of the most exciting venues in golf and will be the stage for another terrific U.S. Open Championship. We’re very pleased to expand our coverage this year to deliver listeners more live tournament hours, with a first-rate broadcast team calling more action from the course than ever before,” said SiriusXM’s President and Chief Content Officer, Scott Greenstein. “Our live play-by-play and the insight of our expert hosts throughout U.S. Open Week will truly bring golf fans inside this event.”
Throughout the week, PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM will offer daily programming with major champions Fred Couples, Bernhard Langer, Ben Crenshaw and Hale Irwin. Other former professional golfers from the PGA Tour that will host exclusive shows during this week’s U.S. Open coverage will include, Pat Perez, Colt Knost, John Cook, Mark Lye, John Maginnes, Carl Paulson and Dennis Paulson.
Play-by-play of the tournament begins at 10am ET on Thursday and Friday, starting at 1pm ET on Saturday and Sunday, broadcasting on PGA Tour Radio, Sirius channel 208 and XM channel 92.
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