"Maybe in a couple of years we could just abandon television coverage all together and give the highlights via Morse Code."

Props to Ryan Ballengee at Waggle Room for spotting Shane Bacon's post lamenting ESPN-on-ABC/TNT-via-BBC-feed's coverage of next week's Open Championship that is coming to us in stunning standard definition television.

People complain about links golf looking burned out and "brown" once the British kicks off, but Turnberry is different. It has the light tower and the Aisle Craig and it rolls along the west coast unlike any course you'd see in Scotland. Some of the holes are breathtaking, so it's disappointing we won't get to see it in high definition.

I guess the one good thing that can come from this is it takes the historic championship back to what it once was. Maybe in a couple of years we could just abandon television coverage all together and give the highlights via Morse Code.

So is this a BBC thing? Or a final-year-ABC-deal thing?

Either way, we'll be able to complain together all weekend long during the interactive live blog.