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Golf Live, In Person and In Your Own Backyard By Eddie Mayrose

By: Eddie Mayrose

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Think of all the sporting events you've gone to during your life. As a sports fan, you may have been to Yankee Stadium, seen basketball or hockey in Boston, and even traveled to such notable arenas as Roland-Garros or Fenway Park. But, regardless of the number of games you’ve attended, regardless of how exhilarating any of the matchups may have turned out, regardless of how many championships for which you may have been present, not once were you able to identify with what the athletes were going through. You couldn't. You're not paid to compete and have never put on a uniform to bang heads on any of the same playing fields or arenas as the teams that are your favorites. However, when it comes to the U.S. Open, you're given the rare opportunity to see the cream of the crop vie for a title on the same layout that you've played with your cronies for years. It's golf live, in your own backyard.

In a fitting match between golf's most difficult tournament and the most brutal public course known to its fans, the Open returns to Bethpage Black for the second time in eight years. In 2002, the Black Course became the first completely municipal course to hold the event and was, aptly, won by fan favorite, Tiger Woods. What was likely more of a pleasure to the crowd, however, was watching the best in the world survive the same difficulties they, themselves, experience every week. The lone difference, perhaps, being that Sergio Garcia and Jim Furyk weren't required to spend the night in their backseats to get early start times. Take away the tents, cameras and media, though, and you have golf live, in the flesh.

Still of the opinion there's not boatloads of interest? Ask one of the golf fans sneaking the streaming video onto his desktop at his job; trying to conceal the screen from his boss while viewing the game's best players with the same start times that the average golfer gets from a track that takes no reservations. "Lehman's gonna have trouble looking into the sun on this shot. Happens to me every time" is something you won't hear from a fan while he's watching golf live from Muirfield. But, at the Black Course, there are thousands thinking the same thing. Especially during the first two days, as those who can't break free from the job download links to get a glimpse of the first two rounds.

Enjoy the Open this year as it's a little sweeter than usual. You'll never hit a jump shot at Madison Square Garden, run the bases at Dodger Stadium or find the end zone in the Super Bowl. But you might be able to turn to your kids after Karlsson makes bird on Sunday and say, "I birdied that hole, too." That's golf live on your home turf.

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I found an article with a little history of golf live on the Net with a bit of technical overview of streaming video you might also find enlightening.

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