LPGA Evian Championship: Jessica Korda, fans angry over lack of coverage

Tuning into an LPGA main championship shouldn’t be arduous, but watching this week’s Amundi Evian Championship is sort of inconceivable.

LPGA participant Jessica Korda, golf media legend Lisa Cornwell, and plenty of others have expressed frustration over the dearth of protection.

Certain, the occasion is in France, six hours forward of the American east coast, however nonetheless.

Final week for The Open Championship, protection started at 2 a.m. ET and aired all the best way till 3 p.m. ET throughout a number of platforms. You may watch each shot at The Open for those who needed to.

The women don’t get that very same therapy this week.

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For Thursday’s opening spherical and Friday’s second spherical, protection aired on Golf Channel from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. ET after which once more from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET.

Then, protection shifted to Peacock from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET because the LPGA is battling the boys’s Senior Open Championship for tv protection.

To gas the hearth, viewers want a premium Peacock account to look at the printed.

For Saturday’s third spherical, Golf Channel will air the Evian from 2:30 a.m. to eight a.m. ET, that means many of the nation won’t be able to view the LPGA’s fourth main of the yr.

On Sunday, followers can watch the ending of the ultimate spherical at an inexpensive hour, as protection begins at 5:30 a.m. ET and runs till 11 a.m. ET.

That’s six hours of tv time for the ultimate spherical of a serious. It’s higher than nothing, however nonetheless inadequate.

Watching ladies’s golf shouldn’t be this difficult.

To emphasise this level, Korda tweeted 9 easy phrases.

“Unhappy we will’t watch the remainder of the protection,” Korda stated.

That tweet set off reactions from followers and different golf personnel wanting to look at the entire Evian Championship.

The shortage of protection for ladies’s golf continues to be a problem. Korda spoke out about it, however change must be on the horizon to proceed rising ladies’s golf.

Savannah Leigh Richardson is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By means of. You possibly can observe her on Twitter @SportsGirlSL and on Instagram @savannah_leigh_sports for extra golf protection. Make sure to take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.