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Television commentators are either loved or hated. You seldom hear a conversation about commentators where someone says: “Oh, he’s okay.” When you’re watching sport – especially golf – there are some voices that I would classify as broadcasters and others, as commentators.
Jim Nantz and Dan Hicks are broadcasters, like South Africa’s Trevor Quirk, Martin Locke and Arnold Geerdts. Put simply, they are TV professionals.
Commentators are usually classed as experts in their field, so in our case, they are ex professionals such as Denis Hutchinson, Warren Humphreys, Ken Brown, Tony Johnstone, David Feherty, Gary McCord, Johnny Miller and Peter Alliss.
There are also crossovers and at the top of the list in that category is Sky’s Ewen Murray.…
