The windy conditions, particularly on the Saturday of ‘The 2008 Open’ at Royal Birkdale, I thought would give a higher BBC TV coverage than normal of pros hitting difficult shots from the fairway or rough, chipping, bunker and recovery play - in other words, the more creative, interesting side of the game, viz everything that is not the ‘teeing off’ or ’putting’.

So I decided to put a stop-watch on the edited one hour summary of the play, late on Saturday night to see how much time was devoted to:

1) teeing off, putting and interviews
2) everything else.

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